Quotes about Management

that getting all of one's addictions under control is a little like putting an octopus to bed.

And I trusted someone to look after me on the business side of life.

We need to make a few critical decisions in major areas of life and then manage those decisions day to day.

The most successful people in life are the ones who settle their critical issues early and manage them daily.

I say, make the decision, and as soon as you make the decision, the rest of your life you just manage that decision on a daily basis.

I've run into a lot of companies that invent positions for great people just so they don't get away. But hiring people when you don't have real work for them is insulting to them and hurtful to you.

Once a bishop is appointed, in terms of governance, we are semi-autonomous. It's not like we are branch managers of a bank or something.

One way to approach the book today might be to think of it not as an intimidating, monolithic entity, but as its original readers experienced it—as eight utterly manageable short books to be read over the leisurely course of a year. Another way might be to admit that you do have time to read an eight-hundred-page book, perhaps even according to a swifter timetable than that of George Eliot's first readers. You just need to reorder your priorities.

No matter how many or how few people you have reporting to you, you must remember that as you climb higher in the ranks, your words will be taken as commands even if you're just thinking out loud.

I have a great, great company. I employ thousands of people. And I'm very proud of the job I did.

It doesn't really matter what time it is if you haven't determined what to do with your time.

Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.