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“Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.”
Warren G. Bennis
“All resources are not obvious; great managers find and develop available talent.”
Zig Ziglar
“Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.”
Paul Hawken
“One of the most important tasks of a manager is to eliminate his people's excuses for failure.”
Robert Townsend
“It's not easy to juggle a pregnant wife and a troubled child, but somehow I managed to fit in eight hours of TV a day.”
Dan Castellaneta
“Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.”
Will Rogers
“The rain is famous for falling on the just and unjust alike, but if I had the management of such affairs I would rain softly and sweetly on the just, but if I caught a sample of the unjust out doors I would drown him”
Mark Twain
“The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.”
“I believe managing is like holding a dove in your hand. If you hold it too tightly you kill it, but if you hold it too loosely, you lose it.”
Tommy Lasorda
“The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery.”
Dave Barry