Quotes about Management

The difficult bosses - the ones that have been hard for me to work for - have been the ones where I never knew what success meant.

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.

God is the owner of all things, and we are simply his stewards.

Religion professor Albert Wolters, in Creation Regained, writes, "[God] hangs on to his fallen original creation and salvages it. He refuses to abandon the work of his hands—in fact, he sacrifices his own Son to save his original project. Humankind, which has botched its original mandate and the whole creation along with it, is given another chance in Christ; we are reinstated as God's managers on earth. The original good creation is to be restored."74

You can control yourself if you really want to. I'll tell you how I know you can control yourself. If you were in a full fledged emotional temper tantrum in your house and I knocked on your front door..... Come on! Let me tell you what, you would get control of yourself, and it would only take a few seconds.

Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Foster never did anything that was not absolutely correct; this, perhaps, was his real weakness, for it meant that he lacked imagination, both in his work and in handling the men under him.

I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

Why should a country have to take on itself a huge burden of managing a totally cash economy?

CEOs make hard decisions; sometimes, the least worst is the right one.