W. Edwards Deming Quotes

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

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

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.

I am a director. I'm the one who can order men around.

A manager has to have all different sides covered.

If you have to forecast, forecast often.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.

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

My view is that, as management, the focus has to be on having a strategy and executing it. As you do the strategy and execution, it is important to communicate it consistently.

Part of executive functions is the ability to look to a goal deadline and assess where an organization is in meeting it.

And David consulted with the captains of thousands and hundreds, and with every leader.

I micromanage the selection of the cabinet.

The person who manages the state is me.

It’s not the plans, it’s the people. I think we should have Defense Department people.

Strategy must dominate tactics, not the other way around.

Management of many is the same as management of few. It is a matter of organization.

Management is different from leadership..

In our government we drive decisions either by leadership of by crises. If the leadership is not there, we rely on crises.

Leaders tend to focus on 'what to do,' but the real issue is more often 'how to do it.'

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

That's a large part of the job as governor: to create and maintain the optimal balance.

I like to plan. I like to see the future.

It is not predictions but plans that make the future. If you want predictions, it is because you do not have the ability to make a plan and fulfill it.

I would like to be a manager, to organize everything in training, see if my philosophy could work, and give it to the team.

That's the fun part of being CEO. You can actually say, 'Hey, this is what we should be spending our time on,' and people get it.