Managers Quotes - Page 25

• Toughest job in baseball is the general manager. Second toughest is the hitting coach.

  Ken Harrelson

  Baseball, Jobs, Hitting

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• The most useful and honorable science and occupation for a woman is the science of housekeeping. I know some that are miserly, very few that are good managers.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Women, Good Man, Occupation

  Michel de Montaigne (1976). “The Complete Essays of Montaigne”

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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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• A manager may be tough and practical, squeezing out, while the going is good, the last ounce of profit and dividend . . .

  Robert Menzies

  May, Lasts, Tough

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• Managers are the basic and scarcest resource of any business enterprise.

  Peter Drucker

  Resources, Enterprise

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• If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will.

  Stephen Covey

  Leadership, Independent, Self

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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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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• Managers thinking about accounting issues should never forget one of Abraham Lincoln's favorite riddles: How many legs does a dog have, if you call a tail a leg? The answer: Four, because calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

  Warren Buffett

  Dog, Thinking, Issues

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.186, John Wiley & Sons

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• If the technology cannot shoulder the entire burden of strategic change, it nevertheless can set into motion a series of dynamicsthat present an important challenge to imperative control and the industrial division of labor. The more blurred the distinction between what workers know and what managers know, the more fragile and pointless any traditional relationships of domination and subordination between them will become.

  Shoshana Zuboff

  Technology, Division Of Labor, Challenges

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• I don't love the idea of the responsibility falling on the manager. That just adds to their in-game responsibility.

  Cal Ripken, Jr.

  Fall, Responsibility, Ideas

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• My old manager of the Irish National Theatre said 'Don't worry about being a star, just worry about being a working actor. Just keep working.' I think that's really good advice.

  Colm Meaney

  Stars, Thinking, Worry

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• There's no media training. In cooking school, there's not even manager training. You learn the fundamentals of cooking. Everything else is learning by doing.

  Rene Redzepi

  School, Media, Cooking

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

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• Introverts listen better, they assess risks more carefully, they can be wiser managers. It's not for nothing that the Silicon Valley billionaires are so often the retiring types.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Retirement, Risk, Valleys

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• A manager is an assistant to his men.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Men, Assistants, Risk Management

  Thomas J. Watson, Peter Petre (2013). “Father, Son & Co.: My Life at IBM and Beyond”, p.384, Bantam

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• The job of arguing with the umpire belongs to the manager, because it won't hurt the team if he gets thrown out of the game.

  Earl Weaver

  Hurt, Jobs, Team

  Earl Weaver, Terry Pluto (1984). “Weaver on Strategy”, Macmillan Publishing Company

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• There was a knock on our dressing-room door. Our manager shouted, 'Keith! Ron! The Police are here!' Oh, man, we panicked, flushed everything down the john. Then the door opened and it was Stewart Copeland and Sting.

  Keith Richards

  Funny, Humorous, Men

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• When you're winning games, everyone thinks everything the manager says and does is fantastic. Then it goes the other way, and those earlier criticisms of players can backfire.

  Gary Lineker

  Winning, Player, Thinking

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• If I go into a season and I say, 'For f***'s sake, if we don't win anything, they will all leave,' I have already lost. The problem of the media is always to imagine the worst. The problem of the manager is always to imagine the best.

  Arsene Wenger

  Winning, Media, Sake

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• My history as a manager cannot be compared with Frank Rijkaard's history. He has zero trophies and I have a lot of them.

  Jose Mourinho

  Zero, Arrogant, Trophies

  "Mourinho backs England's cause" by Jon Brodkin, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2005.

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• All resources are not obvious; great managers find and develop available talent.

  Zig Ziglar

  Talent, Great Men, Resources

  Zig Ziglar, Krish Dhanam, Bryan Flanagan, Jim Savage (2004). “Top Performance: How to Develop Excellence in Yourself and Others”, p.50, Revell

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• Inside any important philanthropy meeting, you witness heads of state meeting with investment managers and corporate leaders. All are searching for answers with their right hand to problems that others in the room have created with their left.

  Peter Buffett

  Hands, Leader, Important

  "The Charitable-Industrial Complex" by Peter Buffett, www.nytimes.com. July 26, 2013.

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• Managers watch over our numbers, our time and our results. Leaders watch over us.

  Simon Sinek

  Numbers, Leader, Watches

  FaceBook post by Simon Sinek from Jul 02, 2013

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• I told my manager, 'If we can't do the things now that we want to do, what good is the power?... Let's test it and try to get the things done that we believe in.'

  John Travolta

  Believe, Power, Trying

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• We don't need no more rappers, we don't need no more basketball players, no more football players. We need more thinkers. We need more scientists. We need more managers. We need more mathematicians. We need more teachers. We need more people who care; you know what I'm saying? We need more women, mothers, fathers, we need more of that, we don't need any more entertainers

  Tupac Shakur

  Basketball, Football, Mother

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• Organizations should be built and managers should be functioning so people can be naturally empowered. If someone's doing their job, if someone's working in one of your warehouses, say, they should know their job better than anybody. They don't need to be 'empowered,' but encouraged and left alone to be able to do what they know best.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Jobs, Organization, People

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