Management Control Quotes

There is nothing to arbitrate. Workers have nothing to do with the amount of wages they shall receive. This is solely the business of the company.

People always get confused. They talk about coaches. The reality is, these coaches and managers that everybody thinks are in so much control, they work for us. They're our employees.

A manager can never accept somebody at the top influencing his decisions about the team.

When a company gets bigger, when it begins to bring on employees, it naturally goes through this tendency of wanting to control, of wanting to build process - essentially to say not every one of our customers or employees has great judgment.

There has to be active, hands-on management in concert with the manager to lead the organization and make sure that the standards that we set for the organization as a whole are being lived up to.

I do wish to emphasize that in light of the Alibaba deal, Youku Tudou management will remain independent, and we will continue to be open to opportunities for cooperation with other strategic partners going forward.

Power always works from the corner office.

A lot of companies have teams, but they are not really independent. They still have to get stuff approved by the boss. You have to change how and where decisions are made. If the hierarchy makes the decision, it will be based on politics.

We must keep decision-making in our own hands when we employ foreign personnel. Don’t let foreigners control everything and make crucial decisions for us.

If I'm off the teleprompter, management doesn't get to see what I'm going to say.

The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.

... a meddler who cannot leave his subordinates alone is a hands on executive.

People aren't going to talk about it except me and that is communication and the visits I have personally had in our meetings with our store managers saying if you do these things you will be terminated, period.

If a better person emerges, I will hand over management control.

If it were up to the executives, they probably wouldn't have directors at all.

We certainly have at present the dismal situation that the most imaginative men are directed by a group, the top managers, who are among the least.

We have to bring back the individual. Management has smothered the individual.

Dear, never forget one little point. It's my business. You just work here.

People work in the system. Management creates the system

It's my opinion that a manager must have the right to manage and that clubs should not impose upon any manager any player that he does not want. I have been left with no choice other than to leave.

You cannot manage a decision you haven't made.

I've said consistently that no employer ever really accepts a union. They tolerate the unions. The very minute they can get a pool of unemployment they'll challenge the unions and try to get back what they call managements prerogatives, meaning hire, fire, pay what you want.

What Donald Trump is trying to do is find his own team, figure out how he's going to do it. But we have to remember, he can hire and fire anybody else that he wants to do.

In my opinion, the most important thing in governance is management control.