SOME MANAGEMENT QUOTES FOR 2007

Probably the best way to advise a business manager is to facilitate him to deal with the problem by himself. Management quotes are one of the best ways to achieve this. It has capacity and potential to make the person to rethink the situation from different dimensions and in doing so can help to develop new perspective and ideas. It can also add to a new vision and approach to grow better After all it is wrong to have a simple solution to a complex problem.

I earnestly wish that this compilation and presentation of the quotes would be encouraging and useful to managers in business.

1. Tell me and I will forget, show me and I may remember, involve me and I will understand.
2. I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk hours about it.
3. Risk comes from not knowing ‘what you are doing”.
4. Even a correct decision is wrong when it was taken too late.
5. Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
6. The most important thing in communication is hearing what is not said.
7. Believe that every right implies a responsibility, every opportunity an obligation, every possession a duty.
8. A business that that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.
9. If ethics are poor at top, the behavior is copied down through the organization.
10. To make mistake is human, to persist in mistake is idiotic.
11. Any one can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
12. A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
13. Sometimes your best investements are ones you don’t make.
14. The surest way to ruin a man who does not know how to handle money is to give him some.
15. Leadership is the ability to decide what is to be done and then get others does it.
16. Guidelines for bureaucrats- when in-charge- ponder, when in trouble, delegate and when in doubt, mumble.
17. However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
18. Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
19. The value of achievement lies in achieving.
20. It is no use saying, “We are doing our best”. You have to succeed in doing what is necessary.
21. The pretension is nothing, the performance everything. A good apple is better than an insipid peach.
22. Professionalism means consistency in quality.
23. It is an immaculate law in business, that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.
24. Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing WHAT IS RIGHT.
25. Two dangers never cease threatening the world- Order and Disorder.
26. Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
27. Great minds have purposes and others have wishes.
28. Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against right wall.
29. Relativity applies to physics and reality to ethics.
30. Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

J.KANNAN