“Management is a distinct process consisting of planning, organising, actuating and controlling; utilising in each both science and art, and followed in order to accomplish pre-determined objectives.”
As cited in: S.P. Singh (2003), Planning And Management For Rural Development, p. 8
Principles of Management, 1960
Variant: Management is a distinct process consisting of planning, organizing, actuating and controlling, performed to determine and accomplish the objectives by the use of people and resources.
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the horizontal hierarchy
Source: Project management for executives (1982), p. 3

“Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.”
2000s, The Powell Principles (2003)

Source: Introduction to The New Institutionalism and Organizational Analysis, 1991, p. 12

System of Transcendental Philosophy (1800)
Context: How both the objective world accommodates to presentations in us, and presentations in us to the objective world, is unintelligible unless between the two worlds, the ideal and the real, there exists a pre-determined harmony. But this latter is itself unthinkable unless the activity, whereby the objective world, is produced, is at bottom identical with that which expresses itself in volition, and vice versa.
“If cybernetics is the science of control, management is the profession of control”
Source: Decision and control: the meaning of operational research and management cybernetics, 1966, p. 239 cited in: A. Ghosal (1978) Applied cybernetics: its relevance in operations research. p. 2 and many other sources.

Henri Fayol (1916) cited in: Ralph Currier Davis (1951) The fundamentals of top management. p. 157. This quote was already cited in multiple sources in 1938.

Philip Kotler (1993), as cited in: Gerald A. Cole (2003), Strategic Management, p. 131