Quotes and Sayings about Management

Management is vital to business development, as well as in every personal development. It also covers leadership, which is an important key to every success. Thus, to become a successful businessman, entrepreneur, marketer or simply a successful human being, you need to become an effective and efficient manager and leader. The following are quotes, sayings or quotations about management.

“All time management begins with planning.” -Tom Greening

“Remember the difference between a boss and a leader; a boss says “Go!” – a leader says “Let’s go!”’  -E.M. Kelly

“A chief is a man who assumes responsibility.  He says “I was beaten,” he does not say “My men were beaten.”  -Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“When a management team with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.” -Warren Buffett

“Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. “ -Anne Bradstreet

“Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.” -Stephen R. Covey

“Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.”  -Charles Simic

“Organization doesn’t really accomplish anything. Plans don’t accomplish anything, either. Theories of management don’t much matter. Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved. Only by attracting the best people will you accomplish great deeds.”-Colin Powell

“Management is nothing more than motivating other people.”  -Lee Iacocca

“The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.” -Agha Hasan Abedi

“Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.” -Stephen R. Covey

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”-Peter F. Drucker

“Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.” -Paul Hawken

“A good manager is a man who isn’t worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who work for him.” -H. S. M. Burns

“Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable” -Plato

“The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven’t made up their minds.” -Casey Stengel

“The smaller the function, the greater the management.” -C. Northcote Parkinson

“Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.” -Donald Rumsfeld

“Management must manage!” -Harold S. Geneen

“Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.”  -Stephen Covey

“Effective management always means asking the right question.” -Robert Heller

“Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people. “ -John D. Rockefeller

“Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.” -Harold S. Geneen

“Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.” -Brian Tracy

“Success in management and success in sport are derived from the same basic principles.” -Will Carling

“The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management.” -Charles Edwards

“The first rule of management is delegation. Don’t try and do everything yourself because you can’t.” -Anthea Turner

“Budget should not become a hindrance to good management. When I say budget, I’m speaking not only in terms of money, but also in terms of time.” –Victorino Q. Abrugar