Most management-speak is, as Schrijvers points out, Panglossian balderdash designed to lull the weak and credulous – Anon.
Not to watch your workmen is to lose your money. – Proverb
A memorandum is not written to inform the reader, but to protect the writer. – Dean Acheson
Hire the best. Pay them fairly. Communicate frequently. Provide challenges and rewards. Believe in them. Get out of their way and theyll knock your socks off. – Mary Ann Allison
If sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance. – Norman Augustine
If you want to give a man credit, put it in writing. If you want to give him hell, do it on the phone. – Charles Beacham
A man is known by the company he organizes. – Ambrose Bierce
As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there. – Ken Blanchard
There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched. – Napoleon Bonaparte
Incidents should not govern policy; but, policy incidents. – Napoleon Bonaparte
They that crouch to those who are above them, always trample on those who are below them. – George Earle Buckle
A good manager is a man who isnt worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who work for him. My advice: Dont worry about yourself. Take care of those who work for you and youll float to greatness on their achievements. – H.S.M. Burns
The ability to manage well doesnt make much difference if youre not even in the right jungle. – Stephen Covey
To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them. – Benjamin Disraeli
The manager with the in basket problem does not yet understand that he must discipline himself to take care of activities that fail to excite him. – Pricilla Elfrey
A computer will not make a good manager out of a bad manager. It makes a good manager better faster and a bad manager worse faster. – Edward Esber
