Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old micromanagement quotes, micromanagement sayings, and micromanagement proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
The first rule of management is delegation. Don’t try and do everything yourself because you can’t.Anthea Turner
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The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.Brian Tracy
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Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business.Carlos Slim
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Fit no stereotypes. Don’t chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team’s mission.Colin Powell
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Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.David Ogilvy
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Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.George S. Patton
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Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meetHenry Mintzberg
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Those who like to command and control others are always scared of their authority been challenged or criticized.Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
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Focus on a few key objectives. I only have three things to do. I have to choose the right people, allocate the right number of dollars, and transmit ideas from one division to another with the speed of light. So I’m really in the business of being the gatekeeper and the transmitter of ideas.Jack Welch
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If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don’t have to manage them.Jack Welch
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The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management successJames Cash Penney
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Management’s job is to convey leadership’s message in a compelling and inspiring way. Not just in meetings, but also by example.Jeffrey Gitomer
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Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.John D. Rockefeller
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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.John F. Kennedy
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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.John Quincy Adams
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Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.John Rockefeller
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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.Lee Iacocca
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This is the key to time management to see the value of every moment. Menachem Mendel Schneerson
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A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here’s where we are going to go, here’s why we need to go there, and here’s how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor.Mike Huckabee
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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
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What's measured improvesPeter F. Drucker
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Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere as long as the policy you’ve decided upon is being carried out.Ronald Reagan
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The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.Ronald Reagan
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Leadership is working with goals and vision management is working with objectives.Russel Honore
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The way management treats associates is exactly how the associates will treat the customers.Sam Walton
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Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. Stephen Covey
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Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers. Stephen Covey
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Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.Tom Peters
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It is not enough that top management commit themselves for life to quality and productivity. They must know what it is that they are committed to that is, what they must do. These obligations cannot be delegated. Support is not enough; action is required.W. Edwards Deming
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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