Bernie Ecclestone Quotes

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success

The successful leader must plan his work and work his plan.

Time management is a big part of the director's job.

Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there.

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.

Vision without execution is hallucination.

Vision without execution is delusion.

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

Smart work pays best. Trust it.

You must plan your work and then work your plan.

I learned how to order my thoughts, and most important, learned how to develop a plan. I discovered the power of a plan. If you can plan it out, and it seems logical to you, you can do it. And that was the secret to success.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do a great deal if we choose our goals well and work diligently to attain them.

Once you have a clear picture of your priorities - that is values, goals, and high leverage activities - organize around them.

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.

To me, success in the job is setting a vision, guiding an organization through change - which is exactly what I did at Digitas, and I'm very proud of that - and bringing people together and with you. That, to me, is what it takes to be successful.

Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.

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.

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

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

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

Vision with action is a daydream; action without vision is a nightmare.

One man of tolerable Abilities may work great Changes, and accomplish great Affairs among Mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and … makes the execution of that same plan his sole Study and Business.

If you expect to grow your business, you need to be plotting out your schedules days in advance. Until you get that most basic of steps orchestrated, you can never get to the critical steps that I outline in any one of dozens of books.

Good management has helped me find much of the success I've got.