Quotes about Management

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

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, Ogilvy & Mather will become a company of giants.

A woman who walks with God honors Him in the way she manages her home.

You contribute much to your marriage by the wise, thrifty, diligent management and oversight of your part of the household budget.

Politicians can't manage. All they can do is talk.

I am pretty controlled I have to say.

If you let people own their land, they take care of it. That's why privately owned land is always taken care of, and the parks look like cesspools. Nobody takes care of what everybody owns.