Managers Quotes - Page 9

• I believe one of the best things about managing people is that we can influence lives in a positive way. That's basically what a manager is about. When I can do that, I am very happy.

  Arsene Wenger

  Believe, People, Way

  "Wenger hints on assembling winning team". Q&A session, www.herald.co.zw. July 31, 2013.

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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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• the middle manager is doomed to remain just that. Once an office rat, always an office rat.

  Corinne Maier

  Business, Work, Office

  Corinne Maier (2007). “Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay”, p.21, Vintage

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• Manager' is a title, not a function. It's better to be one than not. Since you spend all day doing the job of the person above you, the higher up you are, the less you have to do.

  Corinne Maier

  Jobs, Work, Titles

  Corinne Maier (2005). “Bonjour laziness: jumping off the corporate ladder”, Pantheon

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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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• When a copier sales person cold calls a purchasing manager whom he has never met is it any surprise that the purchasing manager will most likely never return that call?

  Josh Turner

  Sales Person, Return, Cold

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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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• A writer writes for writers, a non-writer writes for his next-door neighbor or for the manager of the local bank branch, and he fears (often mistakenly) that they would not understand or, in any case, would not forgive his boldness.

  Umberto Eco

  Writing, Doors, Forgiving

  Umberto Eco (1995). “How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays”, p.193, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Insecure managers create complexity. Frightened, nervous managers use thick convoluted planning books and busy slides filled with everything they’ve known since childhood……. They worry that if they’re simple, people will think they’re simple minded. In reality, of course, it’s just the reverse. Clear, tough minded people are the most simple.

  Jack Welch

  Book, Insecure, Simple

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• Ninety percent of our managers started in the hourly ranks or started in the lower ranks.

  J. W. "Bill" Marriott, Jr.

  Ninety, Percent

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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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• The stock market's handling of new technology is kind of a joke. We have seen CNBC, CNNfn, Bloomberg, and the like turn into home-shopping networks for stocks. Fund managers and analysts go on TV and sell what's shiny and easy to sell.

  Mark Cuban

  Home, Technology, Shopping

  "Online Extra: Mark Cuban: Watch Out for 'Ultrabroadband'". Interview with Peter Elstrom, www.bloomberg.com. August 25, 2003.

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• One thing I learned in the NBA is that the No. 1 job of a general manager is to keep his job. They are only 30 positions where you make millions and hang around with basketball players all day.

  Mark Cuban

  Basketball, Jobs, Player

  "Online Extra: Mark Cuban: Watch Out for 'Ultrabroadband'". Interview with Peter Elstrom, www.bloomberg.com. August 25, 2003.

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• Let's acknowledge that men reach for opportunities more quickly and more easily than women. So often as managers, we give the job to whoever starts solving the problem, to whoever jumps in. Since we know men will jump in faster than women in so many circumstances, we have to slow down and encourage more women to sit at more tables.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Jobs, Opportunity, Men

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• Sixty-four percent of managers in the U.S. are afraid to be alone in a room with a woman. Mentoring is all about being alone in a room with someone. Let's start talking about this honestly. The lack of equal access is the silent killer for women and no one wants to talk about it.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Talking, Four, Want

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• Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers.

  Simon Mawer

  People, Saws, Type

  "A life in books". Interview with Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2009.

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• I have always had the deepest respect for Bill Nicholson as a person and as a manager. The Spurs boss is an honest Yorkshireman and you will go a long way before finding a straighter character than that. Bill has never wavered in his determination to give White Hart Lane fans the best.

  Bill Shankly

  Determination, Character, White

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• Ex-Fidelity mutual fund manager Peter Lynch was certainly brilliant in one respect: he knew to get out when the gettin was good.

  Bill Gross

  Brilliant, Mutual Fund, Fidelity

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• You're not going to become a great manager overnight. You're not going to become a great public speaker or figure out how to raise money. These are the things you want to start the clock on as early as possible.

  Drew Houston

  Want, Great Men, Clock

  "DropBox CEO Drew Houston Explains How To Become A Leader Quickly" by Max Nisen, www.businessinsider.com. December 6, 2013.

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• Reading a book about management isnt going to make you a good manager any more than a book about guitar will make you a good guitarist, but it can get you thinking about the most important concepts.

  Drew Houston

  Reading, Book, Thinking

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• I always liked Casey Stengel as a manager because he seemed to have a grasp of so many things.

  Walter Alston

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• Your time as a manager is finite and valuable.

  Matthew Yglesias

  Valuable, Finite

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