All Quotes

Management is defense. You basically say, 'This is the direction; this is where we're heading,' and then it's my job to get everything else out of the way. All the other things that can become a distraction keep us from executing well. Get those out of the way, because the team ultimately needs to run in that direction and execute well.
‐‐ Marissa Mayer

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
‐‐ Peter Drucker

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

Management is getting people together to figure out how to transform inputs into outputs. In the process of figuring out the process of how people work together, you've got to figure out who's got what responsibilities, and how do they work together.
‐‐ Clayton Christensen

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.
‐‐ Lee Iacocca

Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it's a magnificent profession.
‐‐ Clayton Christensen

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.
‐‐ Harold S. Geneen

Management must manage!
‐‐ Harold S. Geneen

Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission.
‐‐ Pat Riley

Management's job is to convey leadership's message in a compelling and inspiring way. Not just in meetings, but also by example.
‐‐ Jeffrey Gitomer

Management teams aren't good at asking questions. In business school, we train them to be good at giving answers.
‐‐ Clayton Christensen

Managerial and professional people hadn't really used computers, hadn't sat down at keyboards, until personal computers. Personal computers have a totally different feel.
‐‐ Mitch Kapor

Managerial discretion can take many forms, some very subtle. Individual managers may run slack operations; they may pursue subgoals that are at variance with corporate purposes; they can engage in self-dealing.
‐‐ Oliver E. Williamson

Managers are already voracious consumers of theory. Every time they make a decision or take action, it's based on some theory that leads them to believe that action will lead to the right result. The problem is, most managers aren't aware of the theories they're using, and they often use the wrong theories for the situation.
‐‐ Clayton Christensen

Managers are important: they are leading the company and guiding and have to provide vision and manage the daily business.
‐‐ Hasso Plattner

Managers are obsessed with the game. It's very, very difficult, if not impossible, to live a balanced lifestyle.
‐‐ Howard Wilkinson

Managers are responsible for setting workplace policies under which teachers can succeed. Managers are responsible for negotiating contracts that create the conditions under which teachers can succeed.
‐‐ Eli Broad

Managers are the most creative people in the world.
‐‐ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Managers are trained to make incremental, programmatic improvements. They aren't trained to lead large-scale change.
‐‐ John P. Kotter

Managers develop organisations; leaders develop people.
‐‐ Robin S. Sharma

Managers don't have as much leverage as they used to have. We can't really be the boss.
‐‐ Frank Robinson

Managers have people second-guessing them all the time.
‐‐ Don Mattingly

Managers have very tough jobs. I always respected their job but demanded respect in return.
‐‐ Jim Evans

Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.
‐‐ Harold S. Geneen

Managers of hospitals over the years have been increasingly recruited from outside the health service, and although their experience of running a supermarket chain might allow them to balance the books, it does not mean they have any insight into how a ward should be managed and patients best served.
‐‐ Jo Brand

Managers, regardless of salary, should not be allowed to earn or use comp time. They are expected to work as many hours as needed to get the job done - especially at these salary levels.
‐‐ Jodi Rell

Managers tend to blame their turnover problems on everything under the sun, while ignoring the crux of the matter: people don't leave jobs; they leave managers.
‐‐ Travis Bradberry

Managers tend to treat organizations as if they are infinitely plastic. They hire and fire, merge, downsize, terminate programs, add capacities. But there are limits to the shifts that organizations can absorb.
‐‐ Kevin Kelly

Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.
‐‐ Brian Tracy

Managers who don't lead are quite discouraging, but leaders who don't manage don't know what's going on. It's a phony separation that people are making between the two.
‐‐ Henry Mintzberg

Managers will tell people what to do, whereas leaders will inspire them to do it, and there are a few things that go into the ability to inspire.
‐‐ Jeff Weiner

Managing a business, small or large, today requires an extremely disciplined, thoughtful approach with regard to the pressure that people are under.
‐‐ Howard Schultz

Managing a country is like managing a company in many ways. It maybe involves more complicated issues, but it's the same skills.
‐‐ Mohamed ElBaradei

Managing and navigating through a financial crisis is no fun at all.
‐‐ Howard Schultz

Managing bottom-up change is its own art.
‐‐ Kevin Kelly

Managing can be more discouraging than playing, especially when you're losing because when you're a player, there are at least individual goals you can shoot for. When you're a manager all the worries of the team become your worries.
‐‐ Al Lopez

Managing dissent is about recognizing the value of disagreement, discord and difference.
‐‐ Noreena Hertz

Managing is a tough job. When you're young, you just think it's a natural progression - I'm good at this, so I'm going to be good at that - and it's not that way at all.
‐‐ Carol Bartz

Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
‐‐ Casey Stengel

Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away.
‐‐ Tommy Lasorda

Managing to tell a story is very gratifying.
‐‐ Gail Carson Levine

Managing university finances is very tricky business. We're nonprofits. We're not supposed to accumulate large surpluses.
‐‐ Richard Levin

Managing your own property can be a full-time job.
‐‐ Robert Kiyosaki

Manchester City have been in the doldrums for a while, they came up and went straight back down again.
‐‐ Alan Hansen

Manchester City, the club and the fans, they were amazing. But I'm sorry, the city wasn't that nice. I was all the time at home, and I didn't enjoy it. It was raining all the time. I was a little bit upset.
‐‐ Mario Balotelli

Manchester has it's own pride and London has it's sort of pride and sometimes we can be a bit mean to each other, but I think if we dig the music we can get on really well.
‐‐ Graham Coxon

Manchester is a city which has witnessed a great many stirring episodes, especially of a political character. Generally speaking, its citizens have been liberal in their sentiments, defenders of free speech and liberty of opinion.
‐‐ Emmeline Pankhurst

Manchester United and Liverpool have been bought with huge leverage, and we've got Roman Abramovich at Chelsea who can turn his loans into shares. It is really important for the Premier League to ask itself: if a club is being bought on such a mountain of debt, isn't that a possible recipe for disaster for the future?
‐‐ Gordon Taylor

Manchester United could have any goalkeeper in the world. I was a 23-year-old kid from New Jersey who, from an early age, had to cope with Tourette's Syndrome, a brain disorder that can trigger speech and facial tics, vocal outbursts and obsessive compulsive behavior.
‐‐ Tim Howard