Quotes about management

The computer actually may have aggravated management’s degenerative tendency to focus inward on costs.

Peter Drucker

The extravagance of any corporate office is directly proportional to management’s reluctance to reward the shareholders.

Peter Lynch

The great challenge to management today is to make productive the tremendous new resource, the knowledge worker. This, rather than the productivity of the manual worker, is the key to economic growth and economic performance in today’s society.

Peter Drucker

Specialized management courses are useful but should come well after the complexity of management and business are understood.

Warren Bennis

That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.

Warren Bennis

It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I think a very good system in a world with a lot of passive investors is one in which there are at least a few the entrepreneurial investors, prepared to say what they think, prepared to propose a change in management, change in strategy, change in cost structure, capital structure.

Bill Ackman

In my opinion, the entire field of investment management, involving hundreds of billions of dollars, would be more satisfactorily conducted if everyone had a good yardstick for measurement of ability and sensibly applied it.

Warren Buffett

At Facebook, we try to be a strengths-based organization, which means we try to make jobs fit around people rather than make people fit around jobs. We focus on what people’s natural strengths are and spend our management time trying to find ways for them to use those strengths every day.

Sheryl Sandberg

Fit no stereotypes. Don’t chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team’s mission.

Colin Powell