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Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.
-Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
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You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.
-Stephen Fry
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
-Richard Buckminster Fuller
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If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.
-Johann von Goethe
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Who can direct when all pretend to know?
-Oliver Goldsmith
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I've been promoted to middle management. I never thought I'd sink so low.
-Tim Gould
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If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst.
-Thomas Hardy
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Effective managers live in the present but concentrate on the future.
-James L. Hayes
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The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.
-Gabriel Heatter
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The difference between management and administration(which is what the bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity.
-Robert Heller
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The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.
-Robert Heller
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Managers have traditionally developed the skills in finance, planning, marketing and production techniques. Too often the relationships with their people have been assigned a secondary role. This is too important a subject not to receive first line attention.
-William Hewlitt
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You don't manage people; you manage things. You lead people.
-Grace Murray Hopper
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You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership. It might help if we ran the MBAs out of Washington.
-Grace Murray Hopper
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The one word that makes a good manager -- decisiveness.
-Lee Iacocca
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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.
-Lee Iacocca
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The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are.
-Reggie Jackson
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Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away.
-Tommy Lasorda
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Management that is destructively critical when mistakes are made kills initiative and it's essential that we have many people with initiative if we're to continue to grow.
-Lewis Lehr
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Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
-Sinclair Lewis
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Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.
-Louis XIV
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Any manager who can't get along with a .400 hitter is crazy.
-Joe Mccarthy
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Man is the principal syllable in Management.
-C. T. Mckenzie
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A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example. A manager may be tough and practical, squeezing out, while the going is good, the last ounce of profit and dividend, and may leave behind him an exhausted industry and a legacy of industrial hatred. A tough manager may never look outside his own factory walls or be conscious of his partnership in a wider world. I often wonder what strange cud such men sit chewing when their working days are over, and the accumulating riches of the mind have eluded them.
-Robert Menzies
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Good managers have a bias for action.
-Thomas J. Peters
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Books about Management
