BEST QUOTES

“I'm not the manager because I'm always right, but I'm always right because I'm the manager.”Gene Mauch…

“The first steps to becoming a really great manager are simply common sense; but common sense is not very common.”Geral…

“Management is getting paid for home runs someone else hits.”Casey Stengel (1890 - 1975) U.S. baseball and manager

“'Top' management is supposed to be a tree full of owls ... hooting when management heads into the wrong part o…

“Show me a man who enjoys firing people and I'll show you a charlatan or sadist.”Tony O'Reilly (b. 1936) Irish …

“If new ideas are the lifeblood of any thriving organization ... managers must learn to revere, not merely tolerate, th…

“Leaders walk their talk; in true leaders there is no gap between the theories they espouse and their practice.” [read …

“The priority in life is to keep an eye on the business and not to get lured into the high social life with groupie-typ…

“Administrative purpose usually outruns the facts. Indeed the administrative official's ardor for facts usually be…

“If you limit a company by its structure or by the people in the company, you will, by definition, limit the full poten…

“You have a responsibility to shape the vision of a company, and you know whatever process you choose will determine ul…

“You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps ... If the president of a company has a clean desk ... then it must…

“It is practically impossible for a top management man, or even middle management, to be doing the degree and level of …

“Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday re…

“APPLE has to be more pragmatic and less religious. And the only one who can really do that is the person who created …

“My answer is to stay close to ordinary people because at heart I am one.” [read business-fable]Ingvar Kamprad (b. 1926…

“How the hell can I ask people who work for me to travel cheaply if I am traveling in luxury.”Ingvar Kamprad (b. 1926) …

“The CEO's role in raising a company's corporate IQ is to establish an atmosphere that promotes knowledge shari…

“I don't know the statistics, but I'm willing to guess that the executives of corporate America spend 70 to 80 …

“The length of a meeting rises with the number of people present and the productiveness of a meeting falls with the squ…