Quotes about Management
If you want the people in the stores to take care of the customers, you have to make sure you're taking care of the people in the stores. That's the most important single ingredient of Wal-Mart's success.
- Sam Walton
These days, the real challenge for managers in a business like ours is to become what we call servant leaders. And when they do, the team—the manager and the associates—can accomplish anything.
- Sam Walton
I learned this early on in the variety store business: you've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.
- Sam Walton
Institutions mistake good intentions for objectives. They say "health care"; that's an intention, not an objective.
- Peter Drucker
In the 70s and 80s, I made a good living. Have managed my funds carefully, will never have to go out and cadge quarters from the tourists.
- WP Kinsella
The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning knife.
- Thomas Jefferson
The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.
- Thomas Jefferson
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.
- Edmund Burke
The greatest of all evils is a weak government
- Benjamin Disraeli
Influence is not government.
- George Washington
The talk you hear about adapting to change is not only stupid, it's dangerous. The only way you can manage change is to create it.
- Peter Drucker
A strategy that doesn't take into account resources is doomed to failure.
- John Maxwell