Quotes about Management

Randy Alcorn describes his own learning about being a steward: If God was the owner, I was the manager. I needed to adopt a steward's mentality toward the assets. He had entrusted—not given— to me. A steward manages assets for the owner's benefit. The steward carries no sense of entitlement to the assets he manages. It's his job to find out what the owner wants done with his assets, then carry out his will.

Hire people more for their judgment than for their talents.

Many despise economy, confounding it with stinginess and narrowness. But economy is consistent with the broadest liberality. Indeed, without economy, there can be no true liberality. We are to save, that we may give.

There's been a realization in college athletics that an athletic director really is a businessman.

Heckuva job, Brownie!

Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.

Compassion, together with contractual responsibility for one's workforce, is a mark of a top employer.

Politicians have patronised and talked down to us all when it comes to our economy, but ordinary working people have to manage on incomes significantly lower than the likes of George Osborne and his friends in the City. They could teach the bankers and many commentators a thing or two about managing a budget responsibly.

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

American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace.

For business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.

Now and then a division-agent was really obliged to shoot a hostler through the head to teach him some simple matter that he could have taught him with a club if his circumstances and surroundings had been different. But they were snappy, able men, those division-agents, and when they tried to teach a subordinate anything, that subordinate generally got it through his head.