#manage

If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to rotate twenty times as fast, everyone else would get twice as much done since all the managers would fly off. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

#done #earth #else #everyone #fast

We have managed to acquire $13 trillion of debt on our balance sheet. In my view we have nothing to show for it. We haven't invested in our roads, our bridges, our waste-water systems, our sewer systems. We haven't even maintained the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us. ↗

— Michael Bennett

#assets #balance #bridges #built #debt

It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it. ↗

— Hans Blix

#intention #management

Their term project consists of a fieldwork collection of folklore that they create by interviewing family members, friends, or anyone they can manage to persuade to serve as an informant. ↗

— Alan Dundes

#collection #consists #create #family #family members

We just got a tour bus. I didn't know tour buses could be this nice. It's just me, Brian Haner the guitar guy, the tour manager and a writer. We laugh ourselves silly. Apparently we're going to have a road dog, a miniature pincher. It's the smallest they've ever seen. How masculine am I going to look, working with dolls and a miniature dog? ↗

— Jeff Dunham

#apparently #brian #bus #buses #could

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done. ↗

— Peter Drucker

#call #consists #difficult #done #get

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

— Peter Drucker

#management #ninety #objective #objectives #percent

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. ↗

— Peter Drucker

#consists #difficult #making #management #much

She became so important to them that they wondered how they had ever managed without her in the past. And the longer she stayed with them the more indispensable she became, so indispensable in fact that their one fear was that she might some day move on. ↗

— Michael Ende

#day #ever #fact #fear #had

Well, then we got to know each other and eventually worked out a bit of idea of management. ↗

— Brian Epstein

#each #eventually #got #idea #know