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“I proceeded to prove everybody right as to how bad an economics student I was by failing as an assistant manager in every theatre I went to that hired me, both as an assistant manager and as an actor. I lost money and tickets, and I couldn't keep track of anything. So eventually they fired me from assistant-manager jobs, but kept me on as an actor.”

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Author:William Shatner

“In the humanities and social sciences, and in fields like journalism and economics and so on, people have to be trained to be managers, and controllers, and to accept things, and not to question too much.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“Real benefits come when managers begin to understand the profound difference between 'cost cutting' and 'eliminating the causes of costs'”

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Author:Brian L. Joiner

“The modern joint stock firm is the outcome of innumerable decisions made by individual entrepreneurs, owners and managers. For these decision makers the choices among alternatives were limited and the outcomes uncertain, but almost always there were choices. Despite the variability of these individual decisions, taken cumulatively they produced clear patterns of institutional change”

“Roughly speaking, I think it's accurate to say that a corporate elite of managers and owners governs the economy and the political system as well, at least in very large measure.”

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Book:Chomsky on Democracy and Education

Source: Chomsky on Democracy and Education

“As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there”

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Author:Ken Blanchard

“A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful moneymaker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example. A manager may be tough and practical, squeezing out, while the going is good, the last ounce of profit and dividend, and may leave behind him an exhausted industry and a legacy of industrial hatred. A tough manager may never look outside his own factory walls or be conscious of his partnership in a wider world. I often wonder what strange cud such men sit chewing when their working days are over, and the accumulating riches of the mind have eluded them.”

“My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner.”

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Author:Poppy Z. Brite

“Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.”

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Author:Peter Drucker

“The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.”

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Book:Managing in Turbulent Times

Source: Managing in Turbulent Times