Practical Management Quotes

Practical Management Quotes

A great collection of the best Management quotes ever said or written by the greatest authors and thinkers. The selected quotes are brief and practical and embody powerful and proven Management concepts.

A great read anytime in your day and is pleasant to share with your coworkers and friends. Use the tips proposed by the quotes to boost your Management skills into a new level.

Sample Practical Management Quotes:

The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.

Vince Lombardi

One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.

Calvin Coolidge

What gets measured gets managed.

Peter Drucker

Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.

John Churton Collins

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

Napoleon Bonaparte

You can change only what people know, not what they do.

Scott Adams

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

Paul Hawken

People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete - the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.

Peter Drucker

No great manager or leader ever fell from heaven, its learned not inherited.

Tom Northup

Unfortunately it's also true to say that good management is a bit like oxygen - it's invisible and you don't notice its presence until it's gone, and then you're sorry.

Charles Stross

A CEO's performance is as good as the performance of his middle managers

Med Jones

It’s not the people you fire who make your life miserable. It’s the people you don’t.

Dick Grote

The goal of management is to remove obstacles.

Paul Orfalea

20% of management theories are responsible for 80% of results. That’s assuming the Pareto Principle makes the cut.

Ryan Lilly

The Tone is the Message.

Kevin T. McCarney

To make a decision, all you need is authority. To make a good decision, you also need knowledge, experience, and insight.

Denise Moreland

People. Products. Profits. In that order.

Ken Goldstein

The Four Keys of Great Managers:When selecting someone, they select for talent ... not simply experience, intelligence or determination. When setting expectations, they define the right outcomes ... not the right steps.When motivating someone, they focus on strengths ... not on weaknesses. When developing someone, they help him find the right fit ... not simply the next rung on the ladder.

Marcus Buckingham

If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings—and put compensation as a carrier behind it—you almost don’t have to manage them.

Jack Welch

Hiring people is an art, not a science, and resumes can’t tell you whether someone will fit into a company’s culture. When you realize you’ve made a mistake, you need to cut your losses and move on.

Howard Schultz

Sample Practical Management Quotes:

Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet

Henry Mintzberg

The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.

Brian Tracy

The first rule of management is delegation. Don’t try and do everything yourself because you can’t.

Anthea Turner

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven’t made up their minds.

Casey Stengel