Managers Quotes - Page 9

• He foresaw the platooning that managers like Casey Stengel used years before it happened. He told me I had to be a switch-hitter if I was going to play.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Years, Play

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• The rushed existence into which industrialized, commercialized man has precipitated himself is actually a good example of an inexpedient development caused entirely by competition between members of the same species. Human beings of today are attacked by so-called manager diseases, high blood pressure, renal atrophy, gastric ulcers, and torturing neuroses: they succumb to barbarism because they have no more time for cultural interests.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Business, Men, Blood

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• Managers all over the world will go crazy when their artists are not touting the party line and making things pretty in the way that they're supposed to, but it's different when your manager is your husband. It's contrary to your soul. That commercial interest presses in upon your whole personal life.

  Liz Garbus

  Husband, Crazy, Party

  Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 25, 2015.

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• Sir Alex, one of the best managers of all time. After 26 years of success in the game, we all owe him a tribute.

  Vincent Kompany

  Years, Games, Alex

  Twitter post from May 08, 2013

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• Three things a leader or manager should be thinking: What's happening? What's not happening? and What can I do to influence the outcome?

  John Baldoni

  Thinking, Leader, Outcomes

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• Yes, in baseball when the team stinks, you fire the manager. But you don't fire him because it rains. And you don't let the opposing team choose a new manager for you. And you don't fire him between innings. And replace him with a Viennese weightlifter.

  Bill Maher

  Baseball, Team, Rain

  "We can all stop laughing on Wednesday, but for now, here's a sampling of recall election humor, part deux, from the nation's wags" by James Sullivan, www.sfgate.com. October 02, 2003.

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• Until Scrubs, I didnt have a business manager. I learned everything on my own - and I learned the hard way.

  Donald Faison

  Way, My Own, Hard

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• I remember my manager telling me, 'Be myself, be humble, keep rooted, keep God first'. Those words were very helpful.

  John Boyega

  Humble, Firsts, Helpful

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

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• Programming in the abstract sense is what I really enjoy. I enjoy lots of different areas of it... I'm taking a great deal of enjoyment writing device drivers for Linux. I could also be having a good time writing a database manager or something because there are always interesting problems.

  John Carmack

  Writing, Interesting, Linux

  Firing Squad Interview with Bob Colayco, February 9, 2000.

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• Some of the most successful people managers are also the best listeners.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Successful, People, Management

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• There's a big difference between a decisive manager and a tyrant.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Tyrants, Differences, Bigs

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• I was a better builder than a manager. I'd rather focus on maximizing the opportunities swinging for the fences than minimizing the risk with bunts and singles.

  Steve Case

  Opportunity, Swinging For The Fences, Focus

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• If a team is in a positive frame of mind, it will have a good attitude. If it has a good attitude, it will make a commitment to playing the game right. If it plays the game right, it will win-unless, of course, it doesn't have enough talent to win, and no manager can make goose-liver pate out of goose feathers, so why worry?

  Sparky Anderson

  Attitude, Team, Commitment

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• Leadership is creating a state of mind in others. The difference between being a leader and manager, all due respect to managers, is that leaders have to create states of mind. But a leader, first of all, has to have a clear state of mind, which is usually her own vision, which energizes her, motivates others, and then creates that state of mind in others.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Leadership, Differences, Creating

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• The manager cannot share his power with division superintendent or foreman or workman, but he can give them opportunities for developing their power.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Opportunity, Helping Others, People

  Mary Parker Follett, Pauline Graham (1996). “Mary Parker Follett--prophet of management: a celebration of writings from the 1920s”, Harvard Business Press

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• Im still an idealist. My manager is always trying to talk me out of it, but thats just the way I am.

  Ariel Rechtshaid

  Always Trying, Idealist, Stills

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• Women occupy, in great masses, the 'household tasks' of industry. They are nurses but not doctors, secretaries but not executives, researchers but not writers, workers but not managers, bookkeepers but not promoters.

  Vivian Gornick

  Doctors, Nurse, Tasks

  Vivian Gornick (1978). “Essays in feminism”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Musicians ought to reclaim some of the power in the houses of production. The opera houses are run either by managers or by stage directors, never by musicians.

  Laurence Equilbey

  Running, House, Opera

  "There Will Be Joy". Interview with Lydia Perović, logger.believermag.com. August 1, 2013.

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• I'm much more of a realist. I'm really practical. I'm the kind of person that calls my business manager and says, OK, if it were all to end today, how many months do I have to live?

  Courteney Cox

  Months, Today, Kind

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• Authentic stardom ... is a gift which, if it is to have any permanent significance, must be bestowed by a public rather than a manager.

  Katharine Cornell

  Actors, Fame, Significance

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• I didn't want to chase movies. It's too hard. You've got to work at it - opening nights, photo shoots, publicity people, managers. I never wanted to do that. I'm too lazy.

  Robert Sean Leonard

  Night, People, Lazy

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• Managers at [the nuclear] sector should know that we need diplomacy and not slogans, .. This [is] where we should use all our leverages with patience and wisdom, without provocation and slogans that can give pretexts to the enemies.

  Bill Vaughan

  Giving, Enemy, Needs

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• But, what did happen is I went to Woodstock as a member of the audience. I did not show up there with a road manager and a couple of guitars. I showed up with a change of clothes and a toothbrush.

  John Sebastian

  Couple, Guitar, Clothes

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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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