Steve Jobs
Entrepreneur
"Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could."
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Management
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Jim Rohn
Author, Motivational Speaker
"Start from wherever you are and with whatever you've got."
Deng Xiaoping
Politician
"We must firmly grasp management. Just making things isn't enough. We need to raise the quality."
Andrea Jung
Business Executive
"If you feel like it's difficult to change, you will probably have a harder time succeeding."
Russel Honore
General
"Leadership is working with goals and vision management is working with objectives."
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"Neckties strangle clear thinking."
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"The reaction of weak management to weak operations is often weak accounting."
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"90% of all management problems are caused by miscommunication."
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"Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it."
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"Making more money will not solve your problems if cash flow management is your problem."
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"What's measured improves"
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"Management is not being brilliant. Management is being conscientious."
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"Management plays a role just keeping everything in place for you and making sure everything's going right."
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"We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions."
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"Generally, management of many is the same as management of few. It is a matter of organization. And to control many is the same as to control few. This is a matter of formations and signals."
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"One always has time enough, if one will apply it well."
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"A Lesson on Elementary, Worldly Wisdom As It Relates To Investment Management & Business"
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"So some guy may know how to make money in cocoa beans, but I don't so I just let him have that. But it's got to be something I understand. It's got to be a business with fundamentally good economics. It's got to be a management that I like and trust and admire. And it's got to be a price that makes sense."
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"The extraordinary business does not require good management."
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"Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, "like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic"."
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"It's human nature to extrapolate the recent past into the future, but it's terrible that managements go along with this."
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"Good money management alone isn't going to increase your edge at all. If your system isn't any good, you're still going to lose money, no matter how effective your money management rules are. But if you have an approach that makes money, then money management can make the difference between success and failure."
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"Good businesses can survive a little bad management."
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"Management works in the system; leadership works on the system."
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"Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much."
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