Bad Management Quotes

Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.

The first problem is too many workers. The second problem is having fools and crooks as managers.

The State Department is the kind of organization which though it does big things badly, does small things badly too.

Good businesses can survive a little bad management.

First law of Bad Management: If something isn't working, do more of it.

I had a terrible manager once who described my career as 'spiraling downward.'

It does not matter whether I am in Hong Kong or Sao Paolo - people always want to talk about toxic bosses and what to do about them.

Never, ever, work for bad people

Gox is the worst-run business in the history of the world.

BBC TV gets hold of an idea and beats it to death until we're all heartily sick of it. They buy people without thinking what they're going to do with them. It's the wrong way around. What they should be doing is employing really good ideas people to come up with good ideas.

I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager.

In the bad old days, captains were not good leaders. They didn't build teams; they were arrogant and autocratic.

No business in the world has ever made more money with poorer management.

Good managements produce a good average market price, and bad managements produce bad market prices.

My worst boss was a departmental chair who never learned to appreciate new developments in the field. He had contempt for students and younger researchers, and he saw the job of running the department as a nuisance.

I think they, Peter McCullough was, turns out was not a good CEO.

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

We find an organization that is deeply troubled by bad management, by sex and corruption and by a growing lack of confidence in its ability to carry out missions that are given to them.

Rotten bosses don't get better. Any strategy that assumes they can is doomed.

I waited tables in New York, and when you're in that line of work, you often have a horrible boss.

Secrecy cannot be used to cover up bad management.

Show me an executive that works long hard hours and I'll show you a bad executive.

There are a lot of bands and performers whose careers are permanently derailed by spectacularly bad management.

Bad herdsmen waste the flocks which thou hast left behind.

I'm not a defender of old or new football managers. I believe in good ones and bad ones, those that achieve success and those that don't.