Managers Quotes - Page 34

• 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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• Toughest thing for me as a young manager is that a lot of my players saw me play. They know how bad I was.

  Tony La Russa

  Player, Saws, Young

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• I'm the same as maybe six or seven people in every ten - I can't take f***ing criticism.

  Martin Jol

  Soccer, Football, People

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• Luckily they had a stupid on their side too.

  Harry Redknapp

  Soccer, Football, Stupid

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• I didn't know anything about it, I swear. Nor did Dave Bassett. We were sitting there saying 'What's happening here?'. It is frightening. A nightmare.

  Harry Redknapp

  Soccer, Football, Sitting

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• I felt that we couldn't win the game. It was absolutely shocking.

  Martin O'Neill

  Soccer, Football, Winning

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• My youth coach told me he'd got these two great 15-year-olds. I told him I don't want to know, because by the time they're 18 I'll be dead.

  Martin O'Neill

  Soccer, Football, Two

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• We're in the top six, we've got five points and I've told the lads we need another 80 to win the League.

  Joe Kinnear

  Soccer, Football, Winning

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