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1. “I feel bound in honour when I reorganise a property and am morally responsible for its management, to protect it – and I generally do protect it.”

J.P. Morgan

Honor, Responsibility, Management, Integrity, Trust

2. “The best business in the world is a well-run oil company. The second best business in the world is a badly run oil company.”

John D. Rockefeller

Business, Oil, Management, Profit, Industry

3. “Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.”

John D. Rockefeller

Management, Leadership, Success, Business, Training

4. “Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.”

John D. Rockefeller

Leadership, Responsibility, Business, Management, Accountability

5. “The secret of success is not doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.”

Andrew Carnegie

Leadership, Success, Delegation, Management, Strategy

6. “Watch the costs and the profits will take care of themselves.”

Andrew Carnegie

Business, Finance, Success, Strategy, Management

7. “A company should search for every instance of the use of its name and zoom in when there are issues - both good and bad.”

Guy Kawasaki

Brand, Reputation, Business, Management, Strategy

8. “When I was getting my education, I fell in love with the writings of Peter Drucker. He was my hero. I had a naive belief that when I became a manager, it was going to be like Peter Drucker's books. That is, I was going to be the effective executive. I was going to talk to people about their goals. I was going to help them actualize.”

Guy Kawasaki

Leadership, Management, Education, Inspiration, Reality

9. “When I finally got a management position, I found out how hard it is to lead and manage people.”

Guy Kawasaki

Leadership, Management, Responsibility, Challenges, Experience

10. “Hiring better than yourself means that you hire for strengths as opposed to hiring on the basis of the lack of weaknesses. A great leader hires people for their strengths and then assigns them tasks that take advantage of those strengths.”

Guy Kawasaki

Leadership, Hiring, Strengths, Teamwork, Management

11. “If you think that leadership is deciding what you want and telling people to do it, I feel sorry for you. Reality is going to kick your ass so far that not even Google will find you. The goal of this chapter is to help you become such a great leader that you’ll appear on the first page of a Google search for “leader.””

Guy Kawasaki

Leadership, Management, Reality, Success, Influence

12. “Organisations are successful because of good implementation, not good business plans.”

Guy Kawasaki

Business, Success, Execution, Management, Entrepreneurship

13. “From a poor man, poor in Time, I was suddenly lifted up into a vast revenue; I could see no end of my possessions; I wanted some steward, or judicious bailiff, to manage my estates in Time for me.”

Charles Lamb

Time, Wealth, Reflection, Change, Management

14. “Eventually, every role ends up being about managing people. Every role.”

Ankur Warikoo

Roles, Management, People, Responsibility, Growth

15. “If your manager is the kindest, when you are at your lowest - you have found a friend.”

Ankur Warikoo

Kindness, Management, Support, Friendship, Empathy

16. “If a manager's response to "by when do you need this?" is ASAP, then they really do not know by when they need it!”

Ankur Warikoo

Management, Clarity, Communication, Priority, Planning

17. “Most managers suck at managing their team, because they suck at managing their own selves.”

Ankur Warikoo

Management, Self-discipline, Leadership, Awareness, Skill

18. “When a manager asks you a question, it is because they need to know the answer. When a leader asks you a question, it is because you need to know the answer.”

Ankur Warikoo

Leadership, Questions, Growth, Management, Insight

19. “A manager builds a team where it's obvious to figure who the manager is. A leader builds a team where it’s hard to figure who the leader is.”

Ankur Warikoo

Leadership, Team, Humility, Management, Unity

20. “Time is finite. Which is why you need to learn how to manage it. Money is infinite. Which is why you need to learn how to grow it.”

Ankur Warikoo

Time, Money, Management, Growth, Priority

21. “The worst type of manager is the one who makes it incredibly tough for you to give them bad news.”

Ankur Warikoo

Management, Communication, Openness, Trust, Leadership

22. “Time is finite. Which is why you need learn how to manage it. Money is infinite. Which is why you need to learn how to grow it.”

Ankur Warikoo

Time, Money, Management, Growth, Priority

23. “The way management treats their associates is exactly how the associates will then treat the customers.”

Sam Walton

Management, Associates, Customers, Treatment, Reflection

24. “If you want the people in the stores to take care of the customers, you have to make sure you’re taking care of the people in the stores.”

Sam Walton

Care, Associates, Customers, Management, Support

25. “Some families sell their stocks off a little bit at a time to live high, and then – boom – somebody takes them over, and it all goes down the drain.”

Sam Walton

Wealth, Risk, Family, Loss, Management

26. “I learned this early on in the variety business: You’ve got to give folks responsibility, you’ve got to trust them, and then you’ve got to check on them.”

Sam Walton

Responsibility, Trust, Oversight, Business, Management

27. “The way management treats associates is exactly how the associates will treat the customers.”

Sam Walton

Management, Associates, Customers, Treatment, Respect

28. “The job of senior management is to cultivate an environment where store managers can learn from the market and from each other.”

Sam Walton

Management, Environment, Learning, Market, Collaboration

29. “Watson, Sr., was running IBM, he decided they would never have more than four layers from the chairman of the board to the lowest level in the company. That may have been one of the greatest single reasons why IBM was successful.”

Sam Walton

IBM, Structure, Success, Management, Efficiency

30. “Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.”

Alvin Toffler

Management, Leadership, Bureaucracy, Training, Irony

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