Management quotes

Discover powerful quotes on management that will inspire and guide you towards effective leadership and organizational success.

In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties.

- Laurence J. Peter

He must examine his objectives and see that true progress is achieved through moving forward to a better way of life, rather than upward to total life incompetence.

- Laurence J. Peter

Good followers do not become good leaders.

- Laurence J. Peter

As individuals we tend to climb to our levels of incompetence. We behave as though up is better and more is better, and yet all around us we see the tragic victims of this mindless escalation.

- Laurence J. Peter

Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.

- Laurence J. Peter

If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.

- Laurence J. Peter

You don't need to take a persons advice to make him feel good, just ask him for it.

- Laurence J. Peter

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

- Laurence J. Peter

The problem with temptation is that you may not get another chance.

- Laurence J. Peter

The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.

- Laurence J. Peter

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

- Laurence J. Peter

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?

- Laurence J. Peter

Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.

- Laurence J. Peter

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

- Laurence J. Peter

An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist expects his nightmares to.

- Laurence J. Peter

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

- Laurence J. Peter

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

- Laurence J. Peter

The purpose of information is not knowledge. It is being able to take the right action.

- Peter Drucker

Remember my mantra: distinct... or extinct.

- Tom Peters

Only those who constantly retool themselves stand a chance of staying employed in the years ahead.

- Tom Peters

One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being.

- Tom Peters

My problem is not that I see all 17 sides of any issue, but I'm equally passionate about all 17 sides simultaneously.

- Tom Peters

Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.

- Tom Peters

Leaders trust their guts. Intuition is one of those good words that has gotten a bad rep. The crazier the times are, the more important it is for leaders to develop and to trust their intuition.

- Tom Peters

Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.

- Tom Peters

If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you're nuts to stay there.

- Tom Peters

If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.

- Tom Peters

If you really want to kill morale, have layoffs every two months for the next two years.

- Tom Peters

If I read a book that cost me $20 and I get one good idea, I've gotten one of the greatest bargains of all time.

- Tom Peters

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

- Tom Peters