Managers Quotes - Page 24

• All artists have runners, people that tell them what to do, business managers, lawyers, these - if they get the right ones, they're lucky, and if they get the wrong ones, they're unlucky.

  Berry Gordy

  Artist, People, Lucky

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Until Scrubs, I didnt have a business manager. I learned everything on my own - and I learned the hard way.

  Donald Faison

  Way, My Own, Hard

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• I remember my manager telling me, 'Be myself, be humble, keep rooted, keep God first'. Those words were very helpful.

  John Boyega

  Humble, Firsts, Helpful

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Programming in the abstract sense is what I really enjoy. I enjoy lots of different areas of it... I'm taking a great deal of enjoyment writing device drivers for Linux. I could also be having a good time writing a database manager or something because there are always interesting problems.

  John Carmack

  Writing, Interesting, Linux

  Firing Squad Interview with Bob Colayco, February 9, 2000.

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• good people managers are likely to listen more than they speak. Perhaps that's why we were given two ears and only one mouth.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Two, People, Listening

  Mary Kay Ash (2009). “The Mary Kay Way: Timeless Principles from America's Greatest Woman Entrepreneur”, p.43, John Wiley & Sons

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• Some of the most successful people managers are also the best listeners.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Successful, People, Management

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• There's a big difference between a decisive manager and a tyrant.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Tyrants, Differences, Bigs

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• Time is a great manager: it arranges things well.

  Pierre Corneille

  Great Men, Wells, Great Managers

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• The tragedy of "Hamlet" is critically considered to be the masterpiece of dramatic poetry; and the tragedy of "Hamlet" is also, according to the testimony of every sort of manager, the play of all others which can invariably be depended on to fill a theater.

  George Augustus Henry Sala

  Drama, Play, Tragedy

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• Leadership is creating a state of mind in others. The difference between being a leader and manager, all due respect to managers, is that leaders have to create states of mind. But a leader, first of all, has to have a clear state of mind, which is usually her own vision, which energizes her, motivates others, and then creates that state of mind in others.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Leadership, Differences, Creating

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• There is too great a tendency (perhaps encouraged by popular journalism) to deal with the dramatic moments, forgetting that these are not always the most significant moments. ... To find the significant rather than the dramatic features of industrial controversy, of a disagreement in regard to policy on board of directors or between managers, is essential to integrative business policies.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Business, Directors, Essentials

  Mary Parker Follett, Pauline Graham (1996). “Mary Parker Follett--prophet of management: a celebration of writings from the 1920s”, Harvard Business Press

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• Lack of opportunity breeds dreams of escape. But professionals and managers who have invested in their careers do not leave the work force as frequently as discouraged workers in lower status occupations. Instead, they keep working, but they escape emotionally by defining achievement in professional, not company, terms. ... Thus, the potential for being stuck as career uncertainty grows takes its toll in weakening attachment to any particular employer.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Dream, Opportunity, Attachment

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter (2008). “Men and Women of the Corporation: New Edition”, p.328, Hachette UK

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• Women occupy, in great masses, the 'household tasks' of industry. They are nurses but not doctors, secretaries but not executives, researchers but not writers, workers but not managers, bookkeepers but not promoters.

  Vivian Gornick

  Doctors, Nurse, Tasks

  Vivian Gornick (1978). “Essays in feminism”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• As a business owner or manager, you know that hiring the wrong person is the most costly mistake you can make.

  Brian Tracy

  Mistake, Wrong Person, Owners

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• I'm much more of a realist. I'm really practical. I'm the kind of person that calls my business manager and says, OK, if it were all to end today, how many months do I have to live?

  Courteney Cox

  Months, Today, Kind

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• There are two schools of thought. A manager would tell you that must make them realize you're a dedicated actor and I took a totally different route than that. I never ever took myself seriously.

  George Hamilton

  School, Two, Different

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Managers at [the nuclear] sector should know that we need diplomacy and not slogans, .. This [is] where we should use all our leverages with patience and wisdom, without provocation and slogans that can give pretexts to the enemies.

  Bill Vaughan

  Giving, Enemy, Needs

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• But, what did happen is I went to Woodstock as a member of the audience. I did not show up there with a road manager and a couple of guitars. I showed up with a change of clothes and a toothbrush.

  John Sebastian

  Couple, Guitar, Clothes

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• When I came out here, my manager thought that casting directors might think I'm a girl, and when I did Threat Matrix, they thought Jamie was a little light.

  James Denton

  Girl, Thinking, Light

  "James Denton: Desperate Plumber". Interview with Dan Kapelovitz, kapelovitz.com. February 2005.

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• My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?” What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.

  Maggie Q

  Dream, Promise, Trying

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• I got a note from the stage manager one night that someone wanted to meet me. And it was Steven Spielberg.

  Corey Reynolds

  Night, Notes, Stage Managers

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• Every good leader is part manager and every good manager is part leader.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Leader, Good Man, Very Good

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• 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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• An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Rights, Giving, Purpose

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