Managers Quotes - Page 10

• Most managers in the rock n' roll world... don't care so much about who's in the band as long as it's making money.

  Jon Anderson

  Rocks, Long, Band

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• Everyone in the world disagrees with me, including some managers, but I think managing in the American League is much more difficult for that very reason (having the designated hitter). In the National League, my situation is dictated for me. If I'm behind in the game, I've got to pinch hit. I've got to take my pitcher out. In the American League, you have to zero in. You have to know exactly when to take them out of there. In the National League, that's done for you.

  Jim Leyland

  Zero, Thinking, Games

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• Insecure managers create complexity. Frightened, nervous managers use thick convoluted planning books and busy slides filled with everything they’ve known since childhood……. They worry that if they’re simple, people will think they’re simple minded. In reality, of course, it’s just the reverse. Clear, tough minded people are the most simple.

  Jack Welch

  Book, Insecure, Simple

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• Ninety percent of our managers started in the hourly ranks or started in the lower ranks.

  J. W. "Bill" Marriott, Jr.

  Ninety, Percent

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• The stock market's handling of new technology is kind of a joke. We have seen CNBC, CNNfn, Bloomberg, and the like turn into home-shopping networks for stocks. Fund managers and analysts go on TV and sell what's shiny and easy to sell.

  Mark Cuban

  Home, Technology, Shopping

  "Online Extra: Mark Cuban: Watch Out for 'Ultrabroadband'". Interview with Peter Elstrom, www.bloomberg.com. August 25, 2003.

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• One thing I learned in the NBA is that the No. 1 job of a general manager is to keep his job. They are only 30 positions where you make millions and hang around with basketball players all day.

  Mark Cuban

  Basketball, Jobs, Player

  "Online Extra: Mark Cuban: Watch Out for 'Ultrabroadband'". Interview with Peter Elstrom, www.bloomberg.com. August 25, 2003.

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• I have always had the deepest respect for Bill Nicholson as a person and as a manager. The Spurs boss is an honest Yorkshireman and you will go a long way before finding a straighter character than that. Bill has never wavered in his determination to give White Hart Lane fans the best.

  Bill Shankly

  Determination, Character, White

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• Ex-Fidelity mutual fund manager Peter Lynch was certainly brilliant in one respect: he knew to get out when the gettin was good.

  Bill Gross

  Brilliant, Mutual Fund, Fidelity

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• Reading a book about management isnt going to make you a good manager any more than a book about guitar will make you a good guitarist, but it can get you thinking about the most important concepts.

  Drew Houston

  Reading, Book, Thinking

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• I always liked Casey Stengel as a manager because he seemed to have a grasp of so many things.

  Walter Alston

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• We all go back to our roots. My father went to the central west, went to Ilfracombe in 1919. He was the manager of the wool scour there. And, Ilfracombe was right at the heart of Australia's great wool industry, and my mother was a teacher at Winton.

  Quentin Bryce

  Mother, Teacher, Father

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• The whole enterprise of teaching managers is steeped in the ethic of data-driven analytical support. The problem is, the data is only available about the past. So the way weve taught managers to make decisions and consultants to analyze problems condemns them to taking action when its too late.

  Clayton Christensen

  Teaching, Past, Data

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• The first person besides my mother who believed in me was a man whose last name I never knew. He was my boss, the manager of Swenson's Ice Cream shop.

  Mona Simpson

  Mother, Men, Ice Cream

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• Sir Alex Ferguson ceases to amaze me as a manager

  Tony Cascarino

  Alex, Ferguson, Cease

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• The international manager reconciles cultural dilemmas

  Fons Trompenaars

  Dilemma, Reconcile, International

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• If you're a manager and you're stuck doing the same thing year after year, you're going to get stale and not know how to motivate people. Part of becoming better at what you do requires challenging yourself on a constant basis.

  Art Briles

  Years, Becoming Better, People

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• When you look back you talk about legends of the game, he's certainly up there. Twenty trophies since 1994. He just seems to get better and better. I've had the honour of playing alongside him. The four years I've played alongside him, he is the best player, one of the first names on the manager's teamsheet. He is just a complete legend. There are not enough players like Paul Scholes around any more for my liking. 'Legend' is over-used but this guy is right up there with the very best.

  Dwight Yorke

  Player, Years, Games

  "Rio: Scholes is the best player of his generation, fact!". www.mirror.co.uk. May 31, 2011.

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• But especially if you have the wrong people within your circle. Truthfully, at the end of the day, no one cares about you in this business whether they are your agent or your manager or your publicist.

  Heather Matarazzo

  Circles, People, The End Of The Day

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• Friends of friends had bands in college or in their early 20s and had a moment where they had some kind of interest from a record label or manager. It's always interesting how people handle those decisions and those moments.

  Noah Baumbach

  College, People, Interesting

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• We have great managers who havent spent a day in management school. Do we have great surgeons that havent spent a day in surgical school?

  Henry Mintzberg

  School, Management, Great Men

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• One of the strong principles that I believe in is that you're always learning, whether you're a commissioner, a current general manager, a president or an owner, or somebody that's trying to become a general manger or a coach in the NFL.

  Roger Goodell

  Strong, Believe, Nfl

  "Roger Goodell talks crown-of-the-helmet rule, Tim Tebow, more". Interview with Steve Wyche, www.nfl.com. May 9, 2013.

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• Desperate times require desperate measures. What Lincoln and the Lobbyist for the Amendment and the Manager of the Amendment and himself, what they did to get this passed was not illegal. It was murky, but what they did was noble and grand. How they went about it was somewhat murky. Nothing they did was really illegal.

  Steven Spielberg

  Desperate Measures, Lobbyists, Noble

  "Steven Spielberg & Daniel Day-Lewis interview, LINCOLN". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. November 9, 2012.

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• If a manager spends more than 10 percent of his time on "human relations" the group is probably too large.

  Peter Drucker

  Groups, Relation, Humans

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• The job of a professional manager is not to like people. It is not to change people. It is to put their strengths to work.

  Peter Drucker

  Jobs, People

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• To be a good boss, you must be transparent. Theres a correlation between worker happiness and workplace transparency. Leaders and managers who offer transparency will earn the respect and devotion of their team.

  David Niu

  Team, Leader, Boss

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