Managers Quotes - Page 39

• A manager has his cards dealt to him and he must play them.

  Miller Huggins

  Play, Cards

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• Why certainly I'd like to have that fellow who hits a home run every time at bat, who strikes out every opposing batter when he's pitching, who throws strikes to any base or the plate when he's playing outfield and who's always thinking about two innings ahead just what he'll do to baffle the other team. Any manager would want a guy like that playing for him. The only trouble is to get him to put down his cup of beer and come down out of the stands and do those things.

  Danny Murtaugh

  Sports, Running, Team

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• We are long-term players in the industry. We're not just crazy and emotional. We try to be logical business managers.

  Frank Lorenzo

  Crazy, Player, Emotional

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• This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once: scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Actors, Creation

  "General Aspects of Dream Psychology". Book by Carl Jung, 1916.

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• The job of the average manager requires a shift in focus every few minutes. The job of the average software developer requires that the developer not shift focus more often than every few hours.

  Steve McConnell

  Teamwork, Jobs, Average

  Steve McConnell (1997). “Software Project Survival Guide”, p.45, Microsoft Press

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• While our managers debated what steps to take to address the sales and cash-flow crisis, I began to lead week-long employee seminars in what we called Philosophies. We'd take a busload at a time to places like Yosemite or the Marin Headlands above San Francisco, camp out, and gather under the trees to talk. The goal was to teach every employee in the company our business and environmental ethics and values.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Business, Philosophy, Cash Flow

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• I took a dozen of our top managers to Argentina, to the windswept mountains of the real Patagonia, for a walkabout. In the course of roaming around those wild lands, we asked ourselves why we were in business and what kind of business we wanted Patagonia to be. A billion-dollar company? Okay, but not if it meant we had to make products we couldn't be proud of. And we discussed what we could do to help stem the environmental harm we caused as a company. We talked about the values we had in common, and the shared culture that had brought everyone to Patagonia, Inc., and not another company.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Business, Real, Roaming Around

  Yvon Chouinard (2016). “Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual”, p.90, Penguin

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• What has been the most rewarding moment in your decades of entrepreneurship? Our last annual managers meeting. I gave my motivational talk and then I asked, How many people here started as a forklift operator, a warehouse person, a roof loader, or a truck driver? We had 600 people and almost half of them stood up.

  Ken Hendricks

  Business, People, Half

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• If we are to have a stabilized market demand, selling pressure should be maintained . . . perhaps increased . . .at the first sign of a decline in business. I know of no single way business managers can do more to stabilize market demand than through greater stabilization of sales and advertising expenditures.

  Paul G. Hoffman

  Business, Way, Pressure

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• In the knowledge economy everyone is a volunteer, but we have trained our managers to manage conscripts.

  Peter Drucker

  Learning, Knowledge, Volunteer

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• The leader is the one who climbs the tallest tree, surveys the entire situation, and yells, 'Wrong jungle!' ... Busy, efficient producers and managers often respond ... 'Shut up! We're making progress!'

  Stephen Covey

  Learning, Knowledge, Tree

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.273, Simon and Schuster

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• There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each (inanimate) instrument could do its own work.

  Aristotle

  Would Be, Imagine, Slave

  Aristotle (1963). “The Politics of Aristotle”

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• To not apologize for the behavior of the players to another manager is unthinkable. It's a disgrace, but I don't expect Wenger to ever apologize...he's that type of person.

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, Player, Wenger

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• I bet him he wouldn't get 15 league goals and I'm going to have to change my bet with him. If he gets to 15 I can change it and I am allowed to do that because I'm the manager. I'm going to make it 150 now!

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, League, Goal

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• Pardew has come out and criticized me. He is the worst at haranguing referees. He shoves them and makes a joke of it. How he can criticize me is unbelievable. He forgets the help I gave him, by the way. The press have had a field day. The only person they have not spoken to is Barack Obama because he is busy. It is unfortunate but I am the manager of the most famous club in the world. Not Newcastle, a wee club in the North-East. I was demonstrative. I am always demonstrative. Everyone knows that. I am an emotional guy but I was not abusive.

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, Emotional, Guy

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• How can I think of leaving Liverpool after a night like this? I am really happy with the club. I will be having talks with the chairman and the manager shortly, but it is looking good. Liverpool fans are crazy, they were unbelievable, and I'd like to dedicate this victory to them.

  Steven Gerrard

  Soccer, Crazy, Night

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• We were massive underdogs at the beginning of the competition and I'll put my hands up say and I didn't think we were going to go all the way. But, as you can see, we are never beaten. The manager told us to keep our chins up, to try and score early in the second half and give some respect for the fans. The first goal gave us a bit of belief. The supporters have saved up for weeks and months to come here. I am so happy to lift the cup for the fans.

  Steven Gerrard

  Soccer, Thinking, Hands

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• As a player I won things, had a special 10 years under Martin O'Neill [at Leicester and Celtic] and played in some great teams, beating Manchester United and getting to the last 16 of the Champions League. As a manager, I don't know if I will top this; I hope I do, because I am still young and am still learning. But this is up there with anything I have achieved, not just in my football career but in my life.

  Neil Lennon

  Football, Team, Player

  "Celtic's Neil Lennon: I haven't bettered this Barcelona win in my life" by Ewan Murray, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2012.

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• All the time and effort people devote to picking the right fund, the hot hand, the great manager have, in most cases, led to no advantage.

  Peter Lynch

  Hands, People, Effort

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• I was often misquoted. I was supportive of my managers, even though they all may not think so.

  George Steinbrenner

  Thinking, Supportive, May

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• When a manager asks for hard data, that's usually just his way of saying no.

  Ward Cunningham

  Data, Way, Saying No

  Talk at MS Research, November 2004.

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• Employees who are controlled cannot respond caringly, you need superior knowledge and real leadership, not management. Because of this we specifically developed a selection process for leaders; we don't hire managers.

  Horst Schulze

  Real, Educational, Leader

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• Sales management is the most critical - and underappreciated - role in the sales force. Companies struggle to find something powerful to train sales managers on.

  Jason Jordan

  Powerful, Struggle, Roles

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• We ask sales managers what they would do if they had an extra hour in their week. They always say they would get out in the field and coach their reps. Yet, they don't.

  Jason Jordan

  Fields, Week, Hours

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• This is an unusual Scotland side because they have good players.

  Javier Clemente

  Soccer, Football, Player

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