42% of our management team are women. So we’ve reset the goal to 50% by 2017. Because that’s when Westpac becomes 200 years old as an institution – the oldest bank, and indeed the oldest company in Australia. So that’s a lovely point to reflect on.

The cerebral and the abstract – for example, management and its systems – have become more highly valued than the hands-on task that management exists to serve, with the odd effect that the higher you rise in your craft, skill or profession, the more you will be removed from its performance in order to manage it.

I got some time off from international cricket so I could come back to India and reflect on what was not going right for me.

[Good managers] know that people have ‘good’ sides and ‘bad’ sides and that the secret of good management is in magnifying the former and toning down the latter.

Take care of your cents; dollars will take care of themselves.

I’m having a good time. Managing my things takes a lot of time.

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless

Let sovereignty be granted us over a portion of the earth’s surface large enough to satisfy our rightful requirements as a nation. The rest we shall manage for ourselves.

Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world

But life isn’t hard to manage when you’ve nothing to lose.

If we manage to last in spite of everything, it is because our infirmities are so many and so contradictory that they cancel each other out.

The payoff for good time management is increased productivity and inner peace.

It appears that there are enormous differences of opinion as to the probability of a failure with loss of vehicle and of human life. The estimates range from roughly 1 in 100 to 1 in 100,000. The higher figures come from the working engineers, and the very low figures from management.

Manchester United is still in my heart. Disappointed they didn’t win the title but they are still the kings of Premier League.

I miss Manchester, especially the apple crumble and custard they served at Carrington after training.

The high point of my career was winning the Champions League. No one will ever erase that from my memory, in the same way that no one will ever erase the fact that I did it in a Manchester United shirt.

Fit no stereotypes. Don’t chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team’s mission.

When the business grows, the person who founded it is incredibly busy. Rapid growth puts an enormous strain on a business. You outgrow your production facilities. You outgrow your management capabilities.

Organizationally what is required – and evolving – is systems management.

A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive.

It has been said, and only half in jest, that a tough, professionally led union is a great force for improving management performance. It forces the manager to think about what he is doing and to be able to explain his actions and behavior.

But what stands out in Japanese history, as well as in today’s Japanese management behavior, is the capacity for making 180-degree turns – that is, for reaching radical and highly controversial decisions.

The subordinate’s job is not to reform or reeducate the boss, not to make him conform to what the business schools or the management book say bosses should be like. It is to enable a particular boss to perform as a unique individual.

Management must take the lead in making obsolete its own products and services rather than waiting for a competitor to do so.

Management and entrepreneurship are only two different dimensions of the same task. An entrepreneur who does not learn how to manage will not last long. A management that does not learn to innovate will not last long.

Management and union may be likened to that serpent of the fables who on one body had two heads that fighting each other with poisoned fangs, killed themselves.

A management decision is irresponsible if it risks disaster this year for the sake of a grandiose future.

Teamwork is neither “good” nor “desirable.” It is a fact. Wherever people work together or play together they do so as a team. Which team to use for what purpose is a crucial, difficult and risky decision that is even harder to unmake. Managements have yet to learn how to make it.

Without institution there is no management. But without management there is no institution.

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.

Management is not being brilliant. Management is being conscientious.

Management has authority only as long as it performs.

Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank.

The task of management is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.

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

Strategic management is not a box of tricks or a bundle of techniques. It is analytical thinking and commitment of resources to action. But quantification alone is not planning. Some of the most important issues in strategic management cannot be quantified at all.

The great challenge to management today is to make productive the tremendous new resource, the knowledge worker. This, rather than the productivity of the manual worker, is the key to economic growth and economic performance in today’s society.

The most common source of mistakes in management decisions is the emphasis on finding the right answer rather than the right question.

The essence of management is to make knowledge productive.

Management by objective works – if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don’t.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

You young lieutenants have to realize that your platoon is like a piece of spaghetti. You can’t push it. You’ve got to get out in front and pull it.

They broke it to me gently. The manager came up to me before a game and told me they didn’t allow visitors in the clubhouse.

State intervention in economic production arises only when private initiative is lacking or insufficient, or when the political interests of the State are involved. This intervention may take the form of control, assistance or direct management.

A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment. For fish it is made strong and coarse, but women are more easily taken with a singularly delicate fabric weighted with small, cut stones

A man is known by the company he keeps

Honesty is the best policy

Jay-Z ain’t a manager; he owns a management company. He been through this; he been through the game for a long time, so he knows tactics in taking artists in certain directions we need to go in.

Having money is one thing but having sense with the money is the key.

Manage the cause, not the result.

Nothing happens without personal transformation.