90 Top-Notch Quotes about People Management

"Take away our twenty most important people, and I tell you we become an unimportant company."

William Henry "Bill" Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, philanthropist, author and chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen. He is consistently ranked among the world's wealthiest people and was the wealthiest overall from 1995 to 2009, excluding 2008, when he was ranked third.


"I'm deeply convinced of the necessity of encouraging everybody to accept the maximum amount of personal responsibility, and allowing them to have a say in every problem in which they can help."

Elliott Jaques (January 18, 1917 – March 8, 2003) was a Canadian psychoanalyst and organizational psychologist. He developed the notion of requisite organization, running counter to many others in the field of organizational development.


"The object is not to see through one another,
but to see one another through."

Peter De Vries (February 27, 1910 - September 28, 1993) was an American editor and novelist known for his satiric wit. He has been described by the philosopher Daniel Dennett as "probably the funniest writer on religion ever


"'denial' is not a river in Egypt. Most relationships suffer fom what we deny and avoid. But if we can't talk about it, we can't fix it."

Peter Ferdinand Drucker (November 19, 1909 – November 11, 2005) was a writer, management consultant, and self-described social ecologist.His books and scholarly and popular articles explored how humans are organized across the business, government and the nonprofit sectors of society.


"You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you."

William John Henry Boetcker (1873 – 1962) was an American religious leader and influential public speaker.


"It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages."

Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was an American industrialist, founder of the Ford Motor Company and developer of the assembly line technique of mass production. His introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and American industry. As owner of the Ford Motor Company, he became one of the richest and best-known people in the world. He is credited with "Fordism", that is, mass production of inexpensive goods coupled with high wages for workers.


"Coming together is a beginning,
Keeping together is progress,
Working together is success."

Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was an American industrialist, founder of the Ford Motor Company and developer of the assembly line technique of mass production. His introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and American industry. As owner of the Ford Motor Company, he became one of the richest and best-known people in the world. He is credited with "Fordism", that is, mass production of inexpensive goods coupled with high wages for workers.


"I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill."

Sir Edward Victor Appleton (6 September 1892 – 21 April 1965) was an English physicist.


"It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts."

William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers (November 4, 1879 – August 15, 1935) was an American cowboy, comedian, humorist, social commentator, vaudeville performer and actor and one of the best-known celebrities in the 1920s and 1930s.


"There are two types of people - those who come into a room and say, "Well, here I am!" and those who come in and say, "Ah, there you are."."

Frederick Lewis Collins (1882–) writer of fiction.