39 Quotes About Great Managers

Doing what it takes to become a great manager is not always easy. These quote about great managers capture some of the best qualities to practice and embrace.

“A key to achieving success is to assemble a strong and stable management team.”

“A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.”

“All resources are not obvious; great managers find and develop available talent.”

“All the great organizations have great managers at all levels who recognize where their culture is getting stronger and where it is getting weaker. There are always reasons why.”

“All the time and effort people devote to picking the right fund, the hot hand, the great manager have, in most cases, led to no advantage.”

“Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all.”

“Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.”

“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”

“Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.”

“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.”

“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.”

“If there’s a big problem and you’ve got the right people with you, usually the answer emerges and you do what’s the obvious thing to do.”

“If you have a great manager, you want to pay him very well.”

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

“In the minds of great managers, consistent poor performance is not primarily a matter of weakness, stupidity, disobedience, or disrespect. It is a matter of miscasting.”

“It remains true that great managers recognize individualities and focus on developing strengths rather than weaknesses. ”

“Leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders.”

“Leadership contains certain elements of good management, but it requires that you inspire, that you build durable trust.”

“Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.”

“Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.”

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”

“Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.”

“Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it’s a magnificent profession.”

“Real management is developing people through work.”

“Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.”

“The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.”

“The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.”

“The true genius of a great manager is his or her ability to individualize. A great manager is one who understands how to trip each person’s trigger.”

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

“There are six components of wellness: proper weight and diet, proper exercise, breaking the smoking habit, control of alcohol, stress management and periodic exams.”

“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”

“This is the key to time management – to see the value of every moment.”

“Time is a great manager: it arranges things well.”

“Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.”

“We have great managers who haven’t spent a day in management school. Do we have great surgeons that havent spent a day in surgical school?”

“We played a whole season unbeaten but you did not see me every week jumping on the tables. Once it’s over it’s over and you do in the next one as well as you can.”

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”

“You’re not going to become a great manager overnight. You’re not going to become a great public speaker or figure out how to raise money. These are the things you want to start the clock on as early as possible.”

“You’ve got to know what you want. This is central to acting on your intentions. When you know what you want, you realize that all there is left then is time management. You’ll manage your time to achieve your goals because you clearly know what you’re trying to achieve in your life.”

There are stark differences between leaders and managers that define each one separately.