Quotes about Management

People care a lot that the USA is well run, and people globally expect us to do things in upgrading science and more.

The worst sin against stewardship is to waste your life.

Time is the capital of your life, so spend it wisely.

Most people spend so much time fearing the things that are never going to happen or can't be controlled that they have no energy to deal with the few things they can actually handle.

When you try to exercise authority within a department that is outside your core competencies, you will hinder everything and everyone under your watch. If you fail to distinguish between authority and competence, you will exert your influence in ways that damage projects and people. To put it bluntly, there are things you are responsible for that you should keep your nose out of.

Delegation—either to time or to other people.… Transferring responsibility to other skilled and trained people enables you to give your energies to other high-leverage activities. Delegation means growth, both for individuals and for organizations.

Every leader has authority over arenas in which he has little or no competence. When we exert our authority in an area where we lack competence, we can derail projects and demotivate those who have the skills we lack.

Control your expenses better than your competition. This is where you can always find the competitive advantage.

When you slide into television, no one tells you exactly how manage expectations and work with your staff.

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

If people threw away their money as thoughtlessly as they throw away their time, we would think them insane. Yet time is infinitely more precious than money because money can't buy time.