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“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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“There's an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.”

“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

“The manager sits down with me; I sit down with the board. We assess the success of the year. The manager assesses whose coming through the academy system. His job is to look at what is happening in European and world football.”

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Author:David Gill

“Pressure is something you feel when you do not know what you are doing.”

“If a player is not interfering with play or seeking to gain an advantage, then he should be.”

“A leader leads by example not by force.”

“When I was asked to join this club and I saw the quality and ambitions of the manager it was an easy choice for me to make.”

Choices Easy Quality Saws Ambition Clubs Managers

Author:Ricardo Carvalho

“Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself.”

Way Inspirational Choices Literature Goal Pieces Cutting Majors Ultimate Priorities Planning Managers Bites Requirements Setting Goals Ultimate Goal Top Priorities

Author:Denis Waitley

“As a manager, you always have a gun to your head. It's a question of whether there is a bullet in the barrel.”

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Author:Kevin Keegan

“The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.”

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Book:Learning to Lead: A Workbook on Becoming a Leader

Source: Learning to Lead: A Workbook on Becoming a Leader

“Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be.”

Wells Time Knowing Eternity Productions Managers Surprising Bent Enterprising Staging

Book:The Works of George Santayana: Soliloquies in England and Later soliloquies

Source: The Works of George Santayana: Soliloquies in England and Later soliloquies

“What's more important than who's going to be the first black manager is who's going to be the first black sports editor of the New York Times.”

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Author:Bill Russell

“There is a lot of difference at McDonald's between the guy in the back making the fries and the manager up front who is running the place.”

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Author:Don Meyer

“I'm washing lettuce. Soon, I'll be on fries. In a few years, I'll make assistant manager, and that's when the big bucks start rolling in.”

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Author:Louie Anderson

“The primary skill of a manager consists of knowing how to make assignments and picking the right people to carry out those assignments”

People Inspiration Knowing Skills Managers Primaries Assignments

Author:Lee Iacocca

“Analyzin' miss clairol, fendi'd down mascara on, assistant manager in paragon”

Missing Rap Managers Assistants Mascara Paragon Fendi

Author:Raekwon

“At a football club, there's a holy trinity - the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don't come into it. They are only there to sign the checks.”

“The challenge of being a manager is to get the best out of everybody, not just the few who are clones of yourself.”

Challenges Managers Bullying

Author:Tim Field

“Oh, there's all these rumors that I'm a lesbian. I have a boyfriend now, Brandon Blackstock; my manager Narvel's son, Reba McEntire's stepson.”

Son Managers Rumor Stepsons

Author:Kelly Clarkson

“The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.”

Inspirational Inspiration Values Business Leader Performances Managers Business Leaders

Author:Brian Tracy

“My wife and daughters work. My campaign manager in 2005 was a working mother. I appointed 5 women to my senior staff as Attorney General.”

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Author:Bob McDonnell

“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

“The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions. Not me. I don't want to be a manager or a dictator. I want to be a leader-and leadership is ongoing, adjustable, flexible, and dynamic. As such, leaders have to maintain a certain amount of discretion”

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Author:Mike Krzyzewski

“I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house; but gradually went through all the Latin poets in those moments.”

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Book:The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

“A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.”

Knows Leadership Leader Managers Know Me Doing Your Best

Author:Kenneth Adelman

“The problem is, we elected a manager and we need a leader. Let's face it: Bush is just dim.”

Needs Problem Faces Leader Managers

Author:George Clooney

“I've not seen an effective manager or leader who can't spend some fraction of time down in the trenches... If they don't do that they get out of touch with reality, and their whole thought and management process becomes abstract and disconnected.”

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Author:Jeff Bezos

“I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.”

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Author:Brian Clough

“Telling the entire world and his dog how good a manager I was. I knew I was the best but I should have said nowt and kept the pressure off 'cos they'd have worked it out for themselves.”

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Author:Brian Clough

“If a chairman sacks the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well.”

Ifs Should Wells Managers Soccer Chairman

Author:Brian Clough

“Make your top managers rich and they will make you rich.”

Rich Management Managers Top Management

Author:Robert H. Johnson

“The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.”

“At the moment we've only got 16 first-team players and my initials stand for Mick McCarthy, not Merlin the Magician (the new Wolves manager gets the excuses in early!)”

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Author:Mick McCarthy

“People who cost too much: manager, lawyer, publicist, label, music publisher.”

People Powerful Music Too Much Cost Lawyer Managers Labels Publishers Promoting Publicists Powerful Music

Author:Roger McNamee

“Delegate it to the manager. You have this really good staff that will take care of everything for you. You just have to delegate it and trust it.”

Care Letting Go Take Care Managers Staff Delegates

Author:Esther Hicks

“The first time that I appeared on stage, it scared me to death. I really didn't know what all the yelling was about. I didn't realize that my body was moving. It's a natural thing to me. So to the manager backstage I said, "What'd I do? What'd I do?" And he said, "Whatever it is, go back and do it again."”

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Author:Elvis Presley

“It seems to me as I reviewed the literature that, with few exceptions, the more confident were the prescriptions about how to behave with ethics and integrity, the further removed was the author from the life and work of the everyday manager.”

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Author:Steve Kerr

“The Reichswirtschaftsministerium ('Reich Ministry of Economic Affairs') tells the shop managers what and how to produce, at what prices and from whom to buy, at what prices and to whom to sell. It assigns every worker to his job and fixes his wages. It decrees to whom and on what terms the capitalists must entrust their funds. Market exchange is merely a sham.”

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Author:Ludwig von Mises

“I've gone through managers like people go through shredded wheat. Nobody looks after you.”

People Looks Gone Managers Memorable Wheat

Author:Steven Morrissey

“Land mines, torture equipment, cluster bombs, chemical weapons are weapons designed to inflict pain and death on human beings. Most victims are civilians, women and children. How can arms manufacturers, weapons designers, plant managers, politicians, who have families of their own whom they love, be so insensitive when it comes to the suffering of other human beings?”

“Companies die because their managers focus on the economic activity of producing goods and services, and they forget that their organizations' true nature is that of a community of humans.”

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Book:The Living Company

Source: The Living Company

“That's great, tell him he's Pele and get him back on.”

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Author:John Lambie

“Iain Dowie famously coined the phrase 'bouncebackability' to describe Crystal Palace's ability to come from behind. But this is a typical manager's idea, so optimistic. What fans are interested in is 'throwawayability': which teams toss away hard-earned leads? Now we know that 'throwawayability' exists because we proved last season that 'bouncebackability' exists (although, hilariously, Palace don't have it) and 'throw-awayability' is the flip side of it.”

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Author:Daniel Finkelstein

“It's my opinion that a manager must have the right to manage and that clubs should not impose upon any manager any player that he does not want. I have been left with no choice other than to leave.”

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Author:Kevin Keegan

“The manager could not even talk to us at the interval. He said we were bad.”

Said Football Managers Intervals

Author:John Terry

“I think the next United manager is already at the club. It could be either Ryan Giggs or Ole Gunnar Solksjaer, who isn't at the club.”

Thinking Next United Football Clubs Managers Giggs

Author:Michael Gray

“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

“The capitalistic social order, therefore, is an economic democracy in the strictest sense of the word. In the last analysis, all decisions are dependent on the will of the people as consumers. Thus, whenever there is a conflict between the consumers' views and those of the business managers, market pressures assure that the views of the consumers win out eventually.”

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Book:On the Manipulation of Money and Credit

Source: On the Manipulation of Money and Credit

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