Best Good Manager Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.”

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Author:Sam Wyly

“My style is to keep folks in place who are good managers and want to win.”

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Author:Tom Hicks

“What constitutes a good manager in this field? He must be knowledgeable in the art with which he is concerned, an impresario, labor negotiator, diplomat, educator, publicity and public relations expert, politician, skilled businessman, a social sophisticate, a servant of the community, a tireless leader - becomingly humble before authority - a teacher, a tyrant, and a continuing student of the arts.”

“Every good leader is part manager and every good manager is part leader.”

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Author:Condoleezza Rice

“The most useful and honorable science and occupation for a woman is the science of housekeeping. I know some that are miserly, very few that are good managers.”

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Book:The Complete Essays of Montaigne

Source: The Complete Essays of Montaigne

“A good manager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wasting the energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight you openly when they think that you are wrong - that's healthy.”

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Book:Further Up the Organization

Source: Further Up the Organization

“As a goalkeeper you need to be good at organising the people in front of you and motivating them. You need to see what's going on and react to the threats. Just like a good manager in business.”

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Author:Peter Shilton

“If I Had To Sum Up In One Word The Qualities That Make Up A Good Manager, I'd Say Decisiveness.”

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Author:Lee Iacocca

“The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness.”

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Author:Lee Iacocca

“I have really good managers and agents who are very selective in what they send me.”

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Author:Michael Pena

“To be a good manager of people requires both fairness and bluntness.”

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Author:James Cook

“The museums used to be exhibition halls for government propaganda, and now every city wants to build a museum. A few thousand are to be built in the next few years, all using taxpayer money. But there is no system, no research, no content, no good programs, no good managers.”

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Author:Ai Weiwei

“I don't see [ Trainspotting ] as an albatross, I see it more as a calling card. It's got me out to Hollywood, I've got a good agent, I've got a good manager, I'm getting a lot of work out there and doing a lot of stuff - getting a lot of film projects on the go.”

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Author:Irvine Welsh

“When you retire, you start to try different things and you choose the one you enjoy the most. As a player, it's difficult to know if you'll be a good manager or not because you might think you can't deal with the dressing room or won't enjoy the game from the sidelines. There's also punditry and careers on TV, so football gives you many different options.”

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Author:Michel Salgado

“In the midst of this enormous economic crisis, I think Canada has shown itself to be a pretty good manager of the financial system and the economy in ways that we always - haven't always been here in the United States.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.”

“Good managers have a bias for action.”

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Author:Tom Peters

“Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.”

“The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”

Book:Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

“The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.”

“I like to think that I've been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product.”

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Author:Linus Torvalds

“There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don't usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp.”

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Author:Mark Zuckerberg

“In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.”

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Author:Tina Fey

“Remember the difference between a boss and a leader. A boss says, Go! A leader says, Let's go!”

“Bad ballplayers make good managers, not the other way around. All I can do is help them be as good as they are.”

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Author:Earl Weaver

“If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act.”

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Author:Lee Iacocca

“A leader leads by example not by force.”

“Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.”

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Book:Growing a Business

Source: Growing a Business

“I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager”

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Author:Victoria Principal

“[Good managers] know that people have 'good' sides and 'bad' sides and that the secret of good management is in magnifying the former and toning down the latter.”

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Author:Ha-Joon Chang

“A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.”

“This is one of the innovator’s dilemmas: Blindly following the maxim that good managers should keep close to their customers can sometimes be a fatal mistake.”

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Book:The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail

Source: The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail

“The old-fashioned idea of a good manager is one who is supposed to know all the answers, can solve every problem himself, and can give appropriate orders to his subordinates to carry out his plans... A good modern manager is like a good coach who leads and encourages his team in never-ending quality improvement.”

“I never thought I was a very good manager.”

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Author:Barry Diller

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