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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON MANAGEMENT 1
A memorandum is not written to inform the reader, but to protect the writer.
Dean Acheson (1893-1971, American statesman, lawyer)
The organized person... makes the most of his time and goes to his bed for the night perfectly relaxed for rest and renewal.
George M. Adams (1878-1962, American author)
Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719, British essayist, poet, statesman)
Time brings all things to pass.
Aeschylus (525-456 BC, Greek dramatist)
I cannot afford to waste my time making money.
Louis Agassiz (1807-1873, Swiss-born American naturalist)
Hire the best. Pay them fairly. Communicate frequently. Provide challenges and rewards. Believe in them. Get out of their way and they'll knock your socks off.
Mary Ann Allison (American author)
A man is known by the company he organizes.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914, American author, editor, journalist, "The Devil's Dictionary")
The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.
William Blake (1757-1827, British poet, painter)
Time wasted is a theft from God.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821-1881, Swiss philosopher, poet, critic)
Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.
Maya Angelou (1928-, African-American poet, writer, performer) Author's website: www.mayaangelou.com
Time is a very shadow that passeth away.
Apocrypha (A collection of fourteen books written after the last book of the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) and before the first book of the Christian Scriptures (New Testament).)
He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.
John Arthorne (American researcher)
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.
Isaac Asimov (1920-1992, Russian-born American author)
If sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance.
Norman Augustine (American business executive, CEO of Martin Marietta)
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
Marcus Aurelius (121-12180, Roman emperor, philosopher)
Time is like a river of fleeting events, and its current is strong; as soon as something comes into sight, it is swept past us, and something else takes its place, and that too will be swept away.
Marcus Aurelius (121-12180, Roman emperor, philosopher)
Time is the author of authors.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626, British philosopher, essayist, statesman)
Time is the greatest innovator.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626, British philosopher, essayist, statesman)
Time is the measure of business.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626, British philosopher, essayist, statesman)
To choose time is to save time.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626, British philosopher, essayist, statesman)
If you want to give a man credit, put it in writing. If you want to give him hell, do it on the phone.
Charles Beacham
Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.
Faith Baldwin
We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867, French poet)
A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?
Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887, American preacher, orator, writer)
The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887, American preacher, orator, writer)
We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.
Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887, American preacher, orator, writer)
The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.
Arnold Bennet
We shall never have more time. We have, and have always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going.... Concentrate on something useful.
Arnold Bennett (1867-1931, British novelist)
You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.
Arnold Bennett (1867-1931, British novelist)
We never shall have any more time we have, and we have always had, all the time there is.
Thomas A. Bennett
Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death, triumphant over all.
John Berger (1926-, British actor, critic)
There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.
Jack Bergman
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
Hector Louis Berlioz (1803-1869, French conductor, music critic, author)
Killing time is the chief end of our society.
Ugo Betti
Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.
Josh Billings (1815-1885, American humorist, lecturer)
You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.
Charles Bixton
For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.
Ken Blanchard (American business lecturer, author) Author's website: www.kenblanchard.com
It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.
Wilton M. Blount (American businessman, founder of Blount, Inc.)
Incidents should not govern policy; but, policy incidents.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821, French general, emperor)
There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest but whose consciences are bewitched.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821, French general, emperor)
Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable.
Dietrich Bonboeffer
Time is lost when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945, German Lutheran pastor and theologian)
A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.
William Frederick Book
I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.
Louis E. Boone (American author)
Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.
Daniel J. Boorstin (1914-2004, American historian)
Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986, Argentinean author)
Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.
Dion Boucicault
Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.
Arthur Brisbane (American editor, columnist)
I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.
John Mason Brown (1800-1859, American militant abolitionist)
They that crouch to those who are above them, always trample on those who are below them.
George Earle Buckle (1854-1935, British journalist)
When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.
Warren Buffett (1930-, American investment entrepreneur)
A good manager is a man who isn't worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who work for him. My advice: Don't worry about yourself. Take care of those who work for you and you'll float to greatness on their achievements.
HSM Burns (American executive, president of Shell Oil)
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
John Burroughs (1837-1921, American naturalist, author)
Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.
Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998, American expert on love, lecturer, author)
The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day.
Nicholas Murray Butler (1862-1947, American educationist)
Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!
Lord Byron (1788-1824, British poet)
One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.
Norman Douglas (1868-1952, British author)
There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (1694-1773, British statesman, author)
Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.
Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832, British sportsman writer)
Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924, Polish-born British novelist)
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
Stephen R. Covey (1932-, American speaker, trainer, author of "The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People")
Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.
Stephen R. Covey (1932-, American speaker, trainer, author of "The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People")
The ability to manage well doesn't make much difference if you're not even in the right jungle.
Stephen R. Covey (1932-, American speaker, trainer, author of "The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People")
If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881, Scottish philosopher, author)
The illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean-tide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very literally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumb, for we have no word to speak about it.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881, Scottish philosopher, author)
There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.
Coco Chanel (1883-1971, French couturier)
An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account.
William Ellery Channing (1780-1842, American Unitarian minister, author)
I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (1694-1773, British statesman, author)
Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (1694-1773, British statesman, author)
The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (1694-1773, British statesman, author)
The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (1694-1773, British statesman, author)
Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!
Winston Churchill (1874-1965, British statesman, Prime Minister)
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
Winston Churchill (1874-1965, British statesman, Prime Minister)
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832, British sportsman writer)
It is nonsense to say there is not enough time to be fully informed.... Time given to thought is the greatest time saver of all.
Norman Cousins (1915-1990, American editor, humanitarian, author)
Time stays long enough for those who use it.
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519, Italian inventor, architect, painter, scientist, sculptor)
Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.
Frank Dane
A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin (1809-1882, British naturalist)
Time is not a line, but a series of now-points.
Taisen Deshimaru
A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870, British novelist)
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Laertius Diogenes (3rd century Greek philosopher, writer,)
To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881, British statesman, Prime Minister)
Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, Time stays, we go.
Austin Dobson (1840-1921, British author)
Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.
Peter F. Drucker (1909-, American-Austrian management consultant)
Management by objective works -- if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.
Peter F. Drucker (1909-, American-Austrian management consultant)
One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.
Peter F. Drucker (1909-, American-Austrian management consultant)
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
Peter F. Drucker (1909-, American-Austrian management consultant)
The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.
Peter F. Drucker (1909-, American-Austrian management consultant)
There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.
Peter F. Drucker (1909-, American-Austrian management consultant)
Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed
Peter F. Drucker (1909-, American-Austrian management consultant)
Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.
Peter F. Drucker (1909-, American-Austrian management consultant)
Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.
John Dryden (1631-1700, British poet, dramatist, critic)
The best way to fill time is to waste it.
Marguerite Duras (1914-1996, French author, filmmaker)
Time is too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.
Henry Van Dyke (1852--1933, American protestant clergyman and writer)
Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.
Meister Eckhart (1260-1326, German mystic)
There is time for everything.
Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931, American inventor, founder of GE)
Have a time and place for everything, and do everything in its time and place, and you will not only accomplish more, but have far more leisure than those who are always hurrying.
Tryon Edwards (1809-1894, American theologian)
When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!
Albert Einstein (1879-1955, German-born American physicist)
The manager with the in basket problem does not yet understand that he must discipline himself to take care of activities that fail to excite him.
Pricilla Elfrey
Time, like money, is measured by our needs.
George Eliot (1819-1880, British novelist)
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