Management Quotes
In customer service, meeting customer’s expectation is basic; exceeding customer’s expectation is best
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.
- General George S. Patton
Catch someone doing something right.
— Kenneth Blanchard
Everyone you meet is your mirror.
- Ken Keyes Jr.
Conflict lies at the core of innovation.
- Emanuel R. Piore
Mediation is the facilitation of negotiation.
- Norman R. Page
A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ.
- John Steinbeck
Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.
- General Douglas MacAuthur
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
- Tacitus
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
- Greek Proverb
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
- Duke Ellington
Make your top managers rich and they will make you rich.
— Robert H. Johnson
With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing.
- Catherine
If you command wisely, you’ll be obeyed cheerfully.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.
- William Walton
A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.
— John Le Caré
Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
- Saul Alinsky
At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled.
- Marshall B. Rosenberg
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Up to 30% of a typical managers time is spent dealing with conflict.
- Thomas
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
- John Churton Collins
Conflict can destroy a team which hasn’t spent time learning to deal with it.
- Thomas Isgar
Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet.
— Henry Mintzberg
Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig.
— Paul Dickson
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
- Confucius
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
- Thomas a Kempis
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
— R Buckminster Fuller
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
- Abraham Lincoln
When conflict becomes a win lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.
- Thomas Crum
The peak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.
- Sun Tzu
Take your life into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.
— Immanuel Kant
Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt,in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.
— Proverb
If we manage conflict constructively, we harness its energy for creativity and development.
- Kenneth Kae
The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided.
— Casey Stengel
Within group conflict is always personal and emotional even if it begins with impersonal issues.
- Kenneth Kaye


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