Will Rogers Quotes

In every business, in every industry, management does matter.

There is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.

I like to be in control of things.

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

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

Don't be a bottleneck. If a matter is not a decision for the President or you, delegate it. Force responsibility down and out. Find problem areas, add structure and delegate. The pressure is to do the reverse. Resist it.

Good organization does not necessarily mean it will produce good policy. But bad organization will almost never produce good policy.

Leadership is inspiring people. Management is keeping the trains running on time.

Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, "like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic".

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success

Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank.

You think effectiveness with people and efficiency with things.

the best committee's a committee of one!

Here's what management is about: Pick good people and set the right priorities.

Management is nature's way of removing idiots from the productive flow.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

We make our own future; we govern ourselves, and to govern is to choose.

Delegating doesn't mean passing off work you don't enjoy, but letting your employees stretch their skills and judgment.

I like control.

I have learned to delegate.

When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30.

We'll always have bureaucracies, but bureaucracies led by bureaucrats might be too much of a bad thing.

Management is getting people together to figure out how to transform inputs into outputs. In the process of figuring out the process of how people work together, you've got to figure out who's got what responsibilities, and how do they work together.

The first rule of management is delegation. Don't try and do everything yourself because you can't.

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.