Quotes about Management

A government ought to contain in itself every power requisite to the full accomplishment of the objects committed to its care, and to the complete execution of the trusts for which it is responsible; free from every other control but a regard to the public good and to the sense of the people.

A weak point of mine was maybe little resolve in governing and making decisions.

A lot of people think that they are leaders just because they have been placed in charge of something - and you're not.

If every work of the day had thus its appointed time, we should be better skilled, both in redeeming time and performing duty (556).

The longer I go on, the more I am aware of the power of finance.

We want very good leaders who have a lot of power.

Unless the power of the corporation can be organized on an accepted principle of legitimacy, it will be taken over by a Central government

The depositary of power is always unpopular.

And what does it mean to take care of power? Do you use it? Conserve it? Keep it out of the wrong hands?

Never summon people to your office; it frightens them. Instead, go to see them in their offices, unannounced. A boss who never wanders about his agency becomes an invisible hermit. 3

Do you think it childish to use a set of written principles to guide the management of an advertising agency? I can only tell you that mine have proved invaluable in keeping a complicated enterprise on course. Profit

When someone is made the head of an office in the Ogilvy & Mather chain, I send him a Matrioshka doll from Gorky. If he has the curiosity to open it, and keep opening it until he comes to the inside of the smallest doll, he finds this message: If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants. Even