“Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere.”
“The ability to manage well doesn't make much difference if you're not even in the right jungle.”
“Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.”
“Management by objective works -- if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.”
“If you want to give a man credit, put it in writing. If you want to give him hell, do it on the phone.”
“The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are.”
“The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.”
“For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.”
“You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.”
“As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there.”
“Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away.”
“Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission.”
“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.”
“I would rather have a first-class manager running a second-rate business than a second-rate manager running a first-rate business.”
“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.”
“There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched.”
“If sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance.”
“Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.”
“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.”
“An overburdened, over-stretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn't have the time to meddle, to deal in trivia, to bother people”
“A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.”
“The difference between management and administration(which is what the bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity.”
“Hire the best. Pay them fairly. Communicate frequently. Provide challenges and rewards. Believe in them. Get out of their way and they'll knock your socks off.”
“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.”
“When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.”
“Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.”
“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.”
“A good manager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wasting the energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight you openly when they think that you are wrong -- that's healthy.”
“A good manager is a man who isn't worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who work for him. My advice: Don't worry about yourself. Take care of those who work for you and you'll float to greatness on their achievements.”
“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.”