Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

Kin Hubbard

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

Lawrence J. Peter

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

Robert Frost

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate you away from those who are still undecided.

Casey Stengal

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

Peter F. Drucker

There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.

Peter F. Drucker

People often say that motivation doesn't last.
Well, neither does bathing – that's why we recommend it daily.

Zig Ziglar

Tactics is knowing what to do when there's something to do.
Strategy is knowing what to do when there's nothing to do.

Savielly Tartakover

Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

Robert Half

Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.

Mark Twain

I don’t want yes-men around me.
I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Samuel Goldwyn

Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense.
This makes you look smart.

Adams Scott

How many people on their deathbed wish they'd spent more time at the office?

Stephen R. Covey

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

William Wordsworth

To err is human, to blame it on someone else shows management potential. 

Unknown

The first myth of management is that it exists.

Unknown

Office manager to employees:
Don't think of me as a boss. Think of me as a friend who is always right.

Unknown

Management expands to meet the needs of management.

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