Best Managers Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 16

“After you do a showcase for agency managers and casting directors and you get this folder and some people had a folder that was thick and some people had a folder that was thin. And there's no fairness to it because it's not a fair business.”

People Directors Fairs Managers Agency Thick Fairness Casting Showcase Casting Directors Folders

Author:Gillian Jacobs

“Your agents and your managers will always say stuff to you like, "It's really important to make a good first impression on a casting director. And even though you didn't get that job, because you did well that means they'll keep bringing you back in." But when you really just need a job to pay your rent, that stops being very consoling.”

Needs Firsts Wells Mean Important Jobs Stuff Pay Directors Impression Agents Managers Casting You Like It First Impression Consoling Casting Directors Good First Impression

Author:Gillian Jacobs

“What was happening with me, with the album [A Period of Transition], with the people who took the pictures, the record company, everything, getting a new manager [Harvey Goldsmith]-it was all saying a period of transition to me so that was the title choice. It says what it is and obviously nobody is going to analyze that. It's exactly what it is.”

People Choices Company Records Periods Happenings Albums Managers Titles Transition Record Companies Harvey

Author:Van Morrison

“Top managers love people and they want to be loved - it turns out being loved is good for your career, especially if you are the boss.”

People Ifs Want Love Age Turns Careers Managers Boss Being Loved

Author:Chade-Meng Tan

“Managers control. Leaders create commitment.”

Leader Commitment Managers

Author:John Peter Zenger

“Computers allow architects to remain parental instead of being marginalized by the contractors and managers.”

Computer Managers Architect Parental Marginalized Contractor

Author:Frank Gehry

“As far as in my adult life, it kinda started (with) writing first 'cause I went to school in Nashville. I mean, not Nashville but close to Nashville, and I met my managers in L.A. at a convention randomly. And then, it kinda just started from there. And then, I got my publishing deal.”

Writing Firsts Mean School Causes Deals Mets Adults Managers Conventions Publishing Nashville

Author:PJ Harvey

“I was like just writing and writing and then I kinda developed my sound. And then, my managers were like, "Okay, we're gonna try to get a deal." And then first it was Interscope, and then it was Atlantic. And then, I ended up signing with Atlantic, but it was like a long process, a really long... it was A LONG PROCESS. I feel like it took me two years to do it.”

Feels Writing Trying Years Firsts Long Two Process Sound Deals Okay Managers Two Years Signing Really Long

Author:PJ Harvey

“Yogi Berra, Bill Lee, they were irreverent, poked fun at the stodgy owners and managers.”

Fun Bills Managers Owners Yogi Irreverent

Author:W. P. Kinsella

“I was so mad I wasn't sitting at the stadium watching it [Prince' 2007 Super Bowl performance] in person. So when Prince came back to the box where I would have been after he performed, he said to my makeup artist, "Where's Stevie?" She said, "She's sick, and she was told by our manager that she would have to walk across the football field when the game was over in the mud and try to find a limo, so she made the decision that she couldn't do that." He was not happy that I wasn't there, and now today I'm not happy about it because I should have gone and I should have walked in that mud for him.”

“As you climb of the organizational ladder, you have to redefine your role in the value chain from player to captain to coach to manager, and for some, to owner. These are different roles and you won't be able to succeed as a manager when you're acting like a player.”

Different Able Values Acting Roles Player Succeed Coaches Chains Managers Climbs Owners Captains Ladders Organizational

Author:Lewis Schiff

“I don't have a label, I don't have a manager, I'm doing everything myself.”

Managers Labels

Author:Jeremy Enigk

“Hugh [Evans] called us. And obviously this has been on our radar for all the years it`s been going on. And each year obviously reaches more and more people, and it`s high profile. Hugh reached out to our manager just down the street. And we said we`re here [ on GLOBAL CITIZEN in the Central Park] to help and do whatever we can.”

People Years Has Beens Said Helping Streets Citizens Managers Parks Profile Global Citizen Radar Central Park High Profile

Author:Lars Ulrich

“Donald Trump's campaign manager said that you built a lot of businesses on the backs of little guys.”

Littles Said Guy Trump Built Campaigns Managers

Author:Hillary Clinton

“A Wall Street money manager should not be able to pay a lower tax rate than a teacher or a nurse.”

Should Able Pay Teacher Streets Wall Taxes Rate Managers Nurse

Author:Hillary Clinton

“If the Metro general manager, Paul Wiedefeld, says those extra hours for maintenance are necessary to help fix the system and make it safer, then that gets top priority.”

Ifs Helping Hours Priorities Managers Extras Maintenance Top Priorities Metro General Manager

Author:Robert James Thomson

“America should really wonder about a President Trump, who had a campaign manager with ties to Putin, pro-putin elements in the Ukraine who had to be fired for that reason. They should wonder when Donald Trump is sitting down with Vladimir Putin, is it going to be America's bottom line, or is it going to be Donald Trump's bottom line he's going to be worried about with all of his business dealings. This would be solved if Donald Trump would release his tax returns as he's told the American public that he would do.”

“I was reading a Time magazine interview with an author named Brené Brown. She said, "People that fail seem to ultimately do the same thing they think works over and over again." I had an epiphany and called my manager and started a creed with my producers. I promised we'd do whatever was best for the song and the album - no ego would get in the way.”

People Thinking Way Said Seems Song Reading Failing Ego Albums Producers Magazines Managers Interviews Brown Creeds Epiphany Time Magazine

Author:Michael Buble

“The C.E.O.'s job in a creativity-driven company is to be an impresario, not a manager.”

Jobs Company Creativity Driven Managers

Author:John Kao

“The manager's job - the impresario's job - is to preside over the company's efforts to jam so the business runs really well.”

Wells Running Jobs Effort Company Managers Jam

Author:John Kao

“I was very headstrong about wanting to keep my name when I moved to Los Angeles. But casting directors would call my managers and say I was perfect for the part, but my name wasn't marketable - I was a young guy, and had the old man name of Gary. I kept losing jobs because of the name not being marketable, so I changed it to Garrett.”

Men Jobs Young Guy Names Perfect Changed Directors Losing Moved Managers Los Angeles Old Man Casting Gary Young Guys Casting Directors Headstrong

Author:Garrett Clayton

“I guess the story that best defines us [with Bud Yorkin] and our relationship goes back to the [Dean] Martin and [Jerry] Lewis show. The four stage managers on that show became major TV creators and directors - John Rich, Jack Smight, Arthur Penn and Bud Yorkin.”

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Author:Norman Lear

“As regards Hillary C;inton's foreign policy actions and the powerful vested interests she seems gleefully beholden to, including all the biggest players in the military-industrial complex, I feel that she would be no better an actor on the world stage than Trump and whatever coalition of managers he might cobble together.”

“I'm a risk manager, but I'm also a risk taker.”

Risk Managers

Author:Anthony Scaramucci

“With me, as a town clerk or city manager, there are certain things that I'm supposed to do - if I don't do them, then I don't deserve to continue in this post.”

Ifs Certain Cities Deserve Towns Managers Posts Clerks

Author:Thabo Mbeki

“I went from having three little jobs that I strung together to being on the road full-time; having some savings that my managers told me to spend. You fly all over the country opening for these other people. You pay a publicist to get some press while you're establishing yourself and you will be solvent in this career forevermore.”

People Littles Country Together Jobs Three Pay Careers Presses Opening Saving Managers Savings Publicists

Author:Dar Williams

“I started going out with one of my managers and he really grew me up in a lot of ways. He introduced me not just to being a full-time traveler, which I was, but he was also really very interested in history and art and continued to open my eyes up to regional history; less splashy histories. He was interested in historical societies and stuff like that. He introduced me to a way of looking at the way communities form that is the foundation for the book that I've just finished writing that has to do with what I see as effective community-building wherever I've been traveling.”

Way Writing Art Book Eye Form Stuff Community Building Grew Foundation Historical Finished Managers Going Out Traveler Community Building History And Art

Author:Dar Williams

“JPMorgan Chase are among the most successful global investment banks, most successful global asset managers, and, in the United States, one of the most successful retail and commercial bankers. We do a great job for customers.”

States Jobs United United States Successful Investment Customers Managers Assets Bankers Great Job Retail

Author:Jamie Dimon

“There are "four keys" to becoming an excellent manager: finding the right fit for employees, focusing on strengths of employees, defining the right results, and hiring for talent - not just knowledge and skills.”

Results Four Talent Keys Becoming Fit Skills Findings Managers Excellent Employee Defining Hiring

Author:Marcus Buckingham

“People should be hired "as is" and their managers then help them to develop their individual strengths while completing tasks for which they have the greatest aptitude and in which they have the greatest interest.”

People Should Helping Individual Interest Tasks Managers Aptitude Completing Individual Strength

Author:Marcus Buckingham

“Managers are, and should be, totally responsible for recognizing individual strengths (both natural talents and skills), getting those strengths in proper alignment (i.e. in the right "seats"), and then leveraging them.”

Should Individual Natural Talent Skills Responsible Managers Seats Recognizing Alignment Natural Talent Individual Strength

Author:Marcus Buckingham

“If the manager really is the problem, try to get reassigned elsewhere in the organization or start looking for one in which you can play to your strengths.”

Ifs Trying Play Problem Organization Managers Elsewhere

Author:Marcus Buckingham

“All the great organizations have great managers at all levels who recognize where their culture is getting stronger and where it is getting weaker. There are always reasons why.”

Reason Culture Levels Organization Stronger Managers Reason Why Great Men Getting Stronger Great Managers Great Organizations

Author:Marcus Buckingham

“It remains true that great managers recognize individualities and focus on developing strengths rather than weaknesses. Great leaders, in sharp contrast, recognize what is (or could be) shared in common - a vision, a dream, a mission, whatever - and inspire others to join them in the given enterprise.”

Dream Given Common Leader Vision Focus Inspire Weakness Remains Individuality Missions Managers Developing Great Men Enterprise Contrast Great Leader Inspire Others Great Managers

Author:Marcus Buckingham

“As someone who was like a chief spokeswoman for [Donald Trump] and his campaign manager, it wasn't always relevant to what Americans out there were telling us at rallies or telling pollsters behind the scenes concerning them.”

Behinds Trump Scene Campaigns Chiefs Managers Relevant Behind The Scenes

Author:Kellyanne Conway

“Presidents in the modern era who've had significant assets have usually put those into a blind trust with some kind of independent manager.”

Kind President Modern Independent Blind Significant Managers Eras Assets Modern Era Blind Trust

Author:Rachel Martin

“I want to be a manager for new artists, get real estate.”

Want Real Artist Managers Estates Get Real New Artists

Author:Lil Boosie

“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.”

Want Years Government Used Next Cities Thousand Research Built Program Used To Be Managers Propaganda Good Man Halls Museums Taxpayers Exhibitions Good Manager

Author:Ai Weiwei

“There are the Podesta emails we've been publishing. [John] Podesta is Hillary Clinton's primary campaign manager, so there's a thread that runs through all these emails; there are quite a lot of pay-for-play, as they call it, giving access in exchange for money to states, individuals and corporations.”

Giving States Play Running Individual Pay Clinton Access Campaigns Managers Primaries Corporations Thread Publishing Email

Author:Julian Assange

“There's an early 2014 email from Hillary Clinton, not so long after she left the State Department, to her campaign manager John Podesta that states ISIL is funded by the governments of Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Now this is the most significant email in the whole collection, and perhaps because Saudi and Qatari money is spread all over the Clinton Foundation.”

Long States Whole Government Left Foundation Clinton Spread Campaigns Significant Managers Department Collections Email Arabia Saudi Arabia Saudis Isil Qatar

Author:Julian Assange

“Her business manager said, you know, Gilda [Radner] left you that house. That's when I decided to stay and test it out. And after about a month, the roots grew, and I didn't ever want to live anywhere else for the rest of my life - travel, yes, but not to live anywhere else.”

Knows Want Said House Left Grew Months Roots Decided Tests Managers

Author:Gene Wilder

“I have to be involved in negotiations because players have to buy into me and what I want from them if they join my club, so all managers need to be fully involved in transfers, that's for sure.”

Ifs Want Needs Player Involved Clubs Managers Negotiation Transfers

Author:Alan Pardew

“My contract with mercury PolyGram Nashville was about to expire. And I never had really been happy. The company, the record company, just didn't put any promotion behind me. I think one album, maybe the last one I did, they pressed 500 copies. And I was just disgusted with it. And about that time that I got to feeling that way, Lou Robin, my manager, came to me and talked to me about a man called Rick Rubin that he had been talking to that wanted me to sign with his record company.”

Thinking Men Way Feelings Wanted Lasts Behinds Company Talking Records Albums Managers Copies Contracts Promotion Robins Record Companies Nashville Mercury Disgusted

Author:Johnny Cash

“[My wife Margot] was the - I guess, the coordinator or the production manager [of The Jazz Review], and we got to know each other and we married.”

Knows Wife Married Jazz Productions My Wife Managers Reviews Coordinator

Author:Nat Hentoff

“[Mikhail Bakunin] expectations were generally confirmed, including his prediction that some would seek to gain state power on the backs of popular revolution, then constructing a "Red bureaucracy" that would be one of the worst tyrannies in history, while others would recognize that power lies elsewhere and would serve as its apologists, becoming mystifies, "disablers," and managers while demanding the right to function in "technocratic isolation," in World Bank lingo.”

World States Would Be Lying Worst Revolution Becoming Expectations Gains Red Function Including Tyranny Managers Isolation Elsewhere Predictions Bureaucracy World Bank

Author:Noam Chomsky

“I spoke to Tom's [Hardy] manager and said, "While we're talking about Taboo, do you mind if I also mention this film project that I've got, which is called Locke, and I need Tom to play the lead." And we spoke about both in that meeting and in the end the deal was that I would do Taboo if he did Locke and vice versa.”

Ifs Needs Mind Said Ends Play Film Deals Talking Projects Meetings Vices Managers Spokes Toms Taboo Vice Versa Hardy

Author:Steven Knight

“In 2008 and 2009 I was very blessed to be with Manager Brandon Hyde and Pitching coach Reid Corneilus. They both were extremely professional and did a great job helping prepare everyone for the next level.”

Helping Jobs Next Levels Blessed Coaches Managers Pitching Great Job Next Level Hyde

Author:Graham Taylor

“To assure the prosperity of a firm should be a long-term strategy and the turnover of key managers should be taken into account from the stand point of long-term consideration and not from the monthly or quarterly flavors.”

Should Long Term Taken Keys Accounts Strategy Prosperity Managers Firm Long Term Consideration Flavor Turnover

Author:Masaaki Imai

“Smart hiring managers in the modern world should be asking, “How long can you concentrate on a task before you have to take a break?” I wonder how many of them do?”

World Should Long Wonder Break Modern Smart Tasks Asking Managers Modern World Hiring

Author:Kevin Drum

“[Polo Is My Life] is what's called a sex book - you know, sex, drugs and rock and roll. It's about the manager of a sex theater who's forced to leave and flee to the mountains. He falls in love and gets in even more trouble than he was in the sex theater in San Francisco. Most of my stories are tales of anguish, stress and grief.”

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