Managers Quotes - Page 32

• I know how it goes. Six or seven months ago I was the manager of the year and I was going to be this and that, tactically this and tactically that, and now, because we have lost two world-class players, I am useless. But I accept that.

  Brendan Rodgers

  Football, Player, Years

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• When managers have got decisions to make, whether it benefits me or not, I have to be man enough to take it.

  Joe Hart

  Football, Men, League

  "City Manchester City's Joe Hart to miss out on cup final against Sunderland" by Jamie Jackson, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2014.

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• Congratulations offer more potential than cash. The amount of available cash is limited, but managers have an unlimited supply of congratulations. It's important to pay people fairly, but managers also should heap on congratulations and feed people's souls.

  Ken Blanchard

  Congratulations, People, Soul

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• If you don't like the idea that most of the money spent on lottery tickets supports government programs, you should know that most of the earnings from mutual funds support investment advisors' and mutual fund managers' retirement.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Retirement, Government, Ideas

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• It's taken a long time but eventually when I had the songs in place and demos right and I found myself a manager, that's when everything started happening quickly but I think that's always the way it is.

  James Blunt

  Song, Stupid, Taken

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• The great actors we had came from the actor-manager theaters. Not only did they create a team, they were the generals working with the soldiers.

  Steven Berkoff

  Team, Soldier, Actors

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• My manager wants me to dress like a nun and I want to dress like a teenager.

  Anna Kournikova

  Sports, Teenager, Dresses

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• I had to hold my tongue from since, when I got here til when I was about 22 years old. I ain't holding my tongue no more. So it's best that I don't get no manager, don't get no promoter cos' they're the people tryna tell me what do.

  Roy Jones Jr.

  Motivation, Years, People

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• We have learned how to develop five-minute and even one-minute managers. But we would do better to ask ourselves what it takes to be an executive who helps build a better future.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Helping, Improvement, Minutes

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.15, Penguin

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• If one yearns to see the face of the Divine, one must break out of the aquarium, escape the fish farm, to go swim up wild cataracts, dive in deep fjords. One must explore the labyrinth of the reef, the shadows of the lily pads. How limiting, how insulting to think of God as a benevolent warden, an absentee hatchery manager who imprisons us in the 'comfort' of artificial pools, where intermediaries sprinkle our restrictive waters with sanitized flakes of processed nutriment.

  Tom Robbins

  God, Thinking, Fjords

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.195, Bantam

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• But I think the Champions League Final puts a massive pressure on every player and the manager, but we're enjoying the pressure and hopefully we can go there and win it.

  Steven Gerrard

  Soccer, Player, Thinking

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

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• The NBA has a voice that's why they have a lockout. The NFL has a voice that's why they had a lockout. Boxing is the only sport that's individually represented the individual people - Managers, Promoters and Boxers.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Sports, Motivation, Nba

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• Indexing is a successful approach to investing not because it's simple, but because it has performed so much better than the average active manager (the opposite of indexing), and the simplicity is just an added bonus.

  Patrick Geddes

  Successful, Simple, Average

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• Even though your responsibilities increase when you become a manager, you lose some of the rights or freedoms you may have enjoyed in the past.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Monday, Morning

  David Cottrell (2002). “Monday Morning Leadership: 8 Mentoring Sessions You Can't Afford to Miss”, p.21, CornerStone Leadership Inst

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• Grateful to The Kerry Gaynor Method for saving my manager's life. He quit smoking thanks to their genius Method.

  Steve Aoki

  Grateful, Smoking, Genius

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• If you want to succeed in business in any capacity - employee, manager, or owner - you must have a solid, comprehensive understanding of what business principles actually are and how they actually work.

  Josh Kaufman

  Understanding, Principles, Want

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• I heard that I am crazy for taking this fight but I'm very excited about this chance. His manager is saying that I'm a 'dead man walking' but 'dead men' cannot have 'nightmares'.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Motivation, Crazy, Fighting

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• Mutual fund managers are trapped in this rather deadly vicious circle: the more successful they are, the more money flows into their mutual fund. Then, it is more difficult for them to beat the market averages or even to match their own past performance.

  Ron Chernow

  Successful, Past, Circles

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• GNOSTICS, n. A sect of philosophers who tried to engineer a fusion between the early Christians and the Platonists. The former would not go into the caucus and the combination failed, greatly to the chagrin of the fusion managers.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Christian, Failure, Fusion

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.97, University of Georgia Press

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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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