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"Manage by exception.Only require reporting when there is a deviation from the plan."
"All but a few of the organizations do not specifically promise to deliver superior investment performance although it is perhaps not unreasonable for the public to draw such an inference from their advertised emphasis on professional management."
"When a management with reputation for brilliance gets hooked up with a business with a reputation for bad economics, it's the reputation of the business that remains intact."
"Does management resist the institutional imperative?"
"Is management candid with the shareholders?"
"Is management rational?"
"Goldman Sachs saying they might be interested in such an investment. I'm familiar with the company. I've known the management, the current management, Jack Welch before Jeff Immelt. I've known him for decades."
"When I'm in management meetings when we're deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I'm the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That's the part of my life where I feel most in control."
"The easiest thing is to react. The second easiest thing is to respond. But the hardest thing is to initiate. – When people ask you to tell them what to do, resist."
"Stress and anxiety at work have less to do with the work we do and more to do with weak management and leadership."
"No talent in management is worth more than the ability to master facts-not just any facts, but the ones that provide the best answers."
"Things have to be made to happen in a way you want them to happen. Without management, without the intervention of organized willpower the desired result simply cannot be obtained."
"Succeed in spite of management."
"More process, less innovation. More operations, less innovation. More management, less innovation. More entrepreneurs, more innovation."
"If you're not uncomfortable in your work as a leader, it's almost certain you're not reaching your potential as a leader."
"Conduct your triumph as a funeral."
"When management and labor (employer and employee) both understand they are all on the same side, then each will prosper more."
"It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management."
"Work mixed with management becomes not only easier but more profitable. The time is past when anyone can boast about 'hard work' without having a corresponding result to show for it."