Best Managers Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 24

“Trying to get the talk show, looking back on it, we had to beg a lot of station managers to pick up the show because people thought no one would watch it because I'm openly gay.”

People Trying Shows Watches Gay Picks Managers Stations Looking Back Talk Shows

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“Too many managers manage by what the postgame press conference is going to be.”

Presses Manage Managers Conferences Press Conferences

Author:John Kruk

“And I'm the kind of manager that doesn't believe that you micro-manage professionals. They should understand their responsibility and carry out those responsibility.”

Should Believe Kind Responsibility Manage Managers

Author:Alphonso Jackson

“It is very difficult to make a vigorous, plausible, and job-risking defense of an estimate that is derived by no quantitative method, supported by little data, and certified chiefly by the hunches of the managers”

Littles Jobs Difficult Method Defense Managers Data Vigorous Plausible Hunches

Author:Fred Brooks

“There’s only two types of manager. Those who’ve been sacked and those who will be sacked in then future”

Two Type Managers

Author:Howard Wilkinson

“Baseball has traditionally possessed a wonderful lack of seriousness. The game's best player, Babe Ruth, was a Rabelaisian fat man, and its most loved manager, Casey Stengel, spoke gibberish. In this lazy sport, only the pitcher pours sweat. Then he takes three days off.”

Men Three Games Sports Player Wonderful Baseball Fats Managers Lazy Spokes Sweat Possessed Seriousness Pitcher Babe Best Players Days Off Ruth Fat Man

Book:Why Time Begins on Opening Day

Source: Why Time Begins on Opening Day

“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.”

Should Sometimes Mistake Following Customers Managers Good Man Maxims Dilemma Innovators Good Manager Fatal Mistakes

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

“I chose to be in this job and things don't always go your way. But I'll keep going. As a manager you have to be optimistic and think things are going to get better.”

Thinking Way Jobs Optimistic Managers Get Better Keep Going Being Optimistic

Author:Graeme Souness

“Brian Walker and David Salt have written a thoughtful and powerful book to help resource users and managers put resilience thinking into practice and aim toward increasing the sustainability of our world. I urge public officials, scholars, and students in public policy programs to place this volume on their list of must-read books. It is a powerful antidote to the overly simplified proposals too often offered as solutions to contemporary problems at multiple scales.”

“If God was the owner, I was the manager. I needed to adopt a steward's mentality toward the assets He had entrusted - not given - to me. A steward manages assets for the owner's benefit. The steward carries no sense of entitlement to the assets he manages. It's his job to find out what the owner wants done with his assets, then carry out his will.”

Ifs Want Done Jobs Given Needed Benefits Manage Managers Owners Carrie Assets Mentality Entitlement Stewards Sense Of Entitlement Entitlement Mentality

Book:The Treasure Principle: Discovering the Secret of Joyful Giving

Source: The Treasure Principle: Discovering the Secret of Joyful Giving

“I remember once I went to go see a movie, and in front of me in line there was a little boy who looked so eager to see it, like it was Christmas morning. When he got to the ticket booth it turned out there was only one ticket left; the manager was there and wanted to give it to me instead since I was famous. That's when I knew I'd hit it big.”

Giving Littles Bigs Wanted Remember Left Lines Boys Morning Fronts Managers Tickets Little Boys Christmas Morning

Author:Zach Braff

“I won eight Stanley Cups as a player, and I've been told it's because I played on great teams. I won two as a general manager, and I've been told it's because I was lucky.”

Two Player Team Lucky Eight Cups Managers Stanley Great Team Stanley Cup General Manager

Author:Serge Savard

“You get an idea what a manager has to go through every day. His is at a very high level. He has situations he has to deal with and the expectations he has to deal with, the personalities he has to deal with. It's a lot.”

Ideas Levels Deals Situation Personality Expectations Managers High Level

Author:Joe Girardi

“Managers who extensively plan the future get the timing wrong.”

Plans Planning Managers Timing

Author:Shona Brown

“The best soldier does not attack. The superior fighter succeeds without violence. The greatest conqueror wins without struggle. The most successful manager leads without dictating. This is intelligent non aggressiveness.”

Doe Winning Peace Struggle Successful Violence Succeed Intelligent Soldier Superiors Fighter Managers Conqueror Aggressiveness Dictating

Author:Laozi

“If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.”

Ifs Knows Process Business Projects Managers Measurement Project Management Top Management Quality In Business Quality Management Management Systems Systems And Processes

Author:W. Edwards Deming

“Any manager can do well in an expanding market.”

Wells Can Do Management Managers Expanding

Author:W. Edwards Deming

“Now, the Libertarian Party, is a *capitalist* party. It's in favor of what *I* would regard a *particular form* of authoritarian control. Namely, the kind that comes through private ownership and control, which is an *extremely* rigid system of domination - people have to... people can survive, by renting themselves to it, and basically in no other way... I do disagree with them *very* sharply, and I think that they are not..understanding the *fundamental* doctrine, that you should be free from domination and control, including the control of the manager and the owner.”

“In knowledge-intensive business settings, where every manager has to oversee massive amounts of information as well as people, facilitating the use of psychic energy becomes a primary concern.”

People Wells Use Energy Information Amount Concern Management Setting Settings Managers Primaries Massive Psychics

Book:Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning

Source: Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning

“I think it is conceded that I generally do pretty big things as a manager, am audacious in my outlays and risks, give much for little money, and make my shows worthy the support of the moral and refined classes.”

Thinking Giving Littles Shows Bigs Moral Class Support Risk Management Worthy Managers Big Things Refined Little Money Audacious Conceded

Author:P. T. Barnum

“A manager has his cards dealt to him and he must play them.”

Play Cards Managers

Author:Miller Huggins

“Why certainly I'd like to have that fellow who hits a home run every time at bat, who strikes out every opposing batter when he's pitching, who throws strikes to any base or the plate when he's playing outfield and who's always thinking about two innings ahead just what he'll do to baffle the other team. Any manager would want a guy like that playing for him. The only trouble is to get him to put down his cup of beer and come down out of the stands and do those things.”

Thinking Want Two Home Running Guy Sports Psychology Trouble Team Fellows Strikes Cups Managers Beer Plates Bats Opposing Pitching Home Run Always Thinking Sports Psychology

Author:Danny Murtaugh

“We are long-term players in the industry. We're not just crazy and emotional. We try to be logical business managers.”

Trying Long Term Player Crazy Emotional Industry Managers Long Term Aviation Logical Airline

Author:Frank Lorenzo

“This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once: scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic.”

Whole Dream Actors Audience Stage Creation Scene Theater Critics Managers Dreamer Subjective Stage Managers

Author:Carl Jung

“The job of the average manager requires a shift in focus every few minutes. The job of the average software developer requires that the developer not shift focus more often than every few hours.”

Jobs Hours Focus Minutes Average Managers Programming Teamwork Software Developers Software Engineering Staffing

Book:Software Project Survival Guide

Source: Software Project Survival Guide

“While our managers debated what steps to take to address the sales and cash-flow crisis, I began to lead week-long employee seminars in what we called Philosophies. We'd take a busload at a time to places like Yosemite or the Marin Headlands above San Francisco, camp out, and gather under the trees to talk. The goal was to teach every employee in the company our business and environmental ethics and values.”

Long Philosophy Values Goal Business Company Steps Teach Tree Week Ethics Flow Crisis Environmental Managers Employee Addresses Camps Cash San Francisco Seminars Cash Flow Yosemite

Author:Yvon Chouinard

“I took a dozen of our top managers to Argentina, to the windswept mountains of the real Patagonia, for a walkabout. In the course of roaming around those wild lands, we asked ourselves why we were in business and what kind of business we wanted Patagonia to be. A billion-dollar company? Okay, but not if it meant we had to make products we couldn't be proud of. And we discussed what we could do to help stem the environmental harm we caused as a company. We talked about the values we had in common, and the shared culture that had brought everyone to Patagonia, Inc., and not another company.”

Source: Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual

“What has been the most rewarding moment in your decades of entrepreneurship? Our last annual managers meeting. I gave my motivational talk and then I asked, How many people here started as a forklift operator, a warehouse person, a roof loader, or a truck driver? We had 600 people and almost half of them stood up.”

People Persons Has Beens Moments Lasts Business Half Meetings Decades Entrepreneurship Managers Drivers Roof Truck Annuals Stood Up Operators Warehouse Truck Driver

Author:Ken Hendricks

“If we are to have a stabilized market demand, selling pressure should be maintained . . . perhaps increased . . .at the first sign of a decline in business. I know of no single way business managers can do more to stabilize market demand than through greater stabilization of sales and advertising expenditures.”

Ifs Knows Way Should Firsts Can Do Business Greater Demand Pressure Selling Advertising Managers Decline Expenditures

Author:Paul G. Hoffman

“In the knowledge economy everyone is a volunteer, but we have trained our managers to manage conscripts.”

Knowledge Economy Learning Management Manage Managers Volunteer

Author:Peter Drucker

“The leader is the one who climbs the tallest tree, surveys the entire situation, and yells, 'Wrong jungle!' ... Busy, efficient producers and managers often respond ... 'Shut up! We're making progress!'”

Situation Leader Knowledge Learning Progress Tree Management Busy Producers Managers Climbs Efficient Shut Up Jungle Surveys

Book:Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day

Source: Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day

“There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each (inanimate) instrument could do its own work.”

Would Be Imagine Conditions Masters Instruments Slave Managers Thrive Subordinates

Book:The Politics of Aristotle

Source: The Politics of Aristotle

“To not apologize for the behavior of the players to another manager is unthinkable. It's a disgrace, but I don't expect Wenger to ever apologize...he's that type of person.”

Inspirational Persons United Player Type Behavior Managers Apologizing Disgrace Unthinkable Manchester United Wenger

Author:Alex Ferguson

“I bet him he wouldn't get 15 league goals and I'm going to have to change my bet with him. If he gets to 15 I can change it and I am allowed to do that because I'm the manager. I'm going to make it 150 now!”

Ifs Inspirational I Can Goal Managers League

Author:Alex Ferguson

“Pardew has come out and criticized me. He is the worst at haranguing referees. He shoves them and makes a joke of it. How he can criticize me is unbelievable. He forgets the help I gave him, by the way. The press have had a field day. The only person they have not spoken to is Barack Obama because he is busy. It is unfortunate but I am the manager of the most famous club in the world. Not Newcastle, a wee club in the North-East. I was demonstrative. I am always demonstrative. Everyone knows that. I am an emotional guy but I was not abusive.”

“How can I think of leaving Liverpool after a night like this? I am really happy with the club. I will be having talks with the chairman and the manager shortly, but it is looking good. Liverpool fans are crazy, they were unbelievable, and I'd like to dedicate this victory to them.”

Thinking Night Crazy Fans Victory Leaving Clubs Managers Soccer Unbelievable Looking Good Chairman Really Happy Liverpool Liverpool Fans

Author:Steven Gerrard

“We were massive underdogs at the beginning of the competition and I'll put my hands up say and I didn't think we were going to go all the way. But, as you can see, we are never beaten. The manager told us to keep our chins up, to try and score early in the second half and give some respect for the fans. The first goal gave us a bit of belief. The supporters have saved up for weeks and months to come here. I am so happy to lift the cup for the fans.”

“As a player I won things, had a special 10 years under Martin O'Neill [at Leicester and Celtic] and played in some great teams, beating Manchester United and getting to the last 16 of the Champions League. As a manager, I don't know if I will top this; I hope I do, because I am still young and am still learning. But this is up there with anything I have achieved, not just in my football career but in my life.”

Ifs Knows Years Stills Lasts Young United Careers Player Team Special Football Managers League Champion Manchester Celtic Manchester United Great Team Champions League Leicester

Author:Neil Lennon

“All the time and effort people devote to picking the right fund, the hot hand, the great manager have, in most cases, led to no advantage.”

People Hands Effort Cases Advantage Hot Managers Great Men Fund Great Managers

Book:Beating the Street

Source: Beating the Street

“I was often misquoted. I was supportive of my managers, even though they all may not think so.”

Thinking May Managers Supportive

Author:George Steinbrenner

“When a manager asks for hard data, that's usually just his way of saying no.”

Way Hard Asks Managers Data Saying No

Author:Ward Cunningham

“Employees who are controlled cannot respond caringly, you need superior knowledge and real leadership, not management. Because of this we specifically developed a selection process for leaders; we don't hire managers.”

Needs Real Process Leader Management Educational Superiors Managers Employee Controlled Selection Motivate Employees

Author:Horst Schulze

“Sales management is the most critical - and underappreciated - role in the sales force. Companies struggle to find something powerful to train sales managers on.”

Force Powerful Company Roles Struggle Management Train Critical Managers Sales Force

Author:Jason Jordan

“We ask sales managers what they would do if they had an extra hour in their week. They always say they would get out in the field and coach their reps. Yet, they don't.”

Ifs Asks Hours Week Fields Coaches Managers Extras

Author:Jason Jordan

“This is an unusual Scotland side because they have good players.”

Sides Player Football Managers Soccer Unusual Scotland Chairman

Author:Javier Clemente

“The upside to smoking is that you get to be social. I was looking for a light when I bumped into Ben Harper's manager. A couple of days later, Ben and I were in the studio.”

Light Social Couple Studios Managers Smoking Marijuana Harper

Author:Beth Orton

“Everybody has his own theatre, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, boxkeeper, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into the bargain.”

Actors Audience Psychology Theater Managers Bargains

Author:Julius Charles Hare

“It's good to have a manager who shares your interests, or goals. You can presumably trust a husband. I don't know if it's the best way to work. I really shouldn't discuss this.”

Ifs Knows Way Goal Interest Share Trust Husband Best Way Managers Best Husband

Author:Dorothy Stratten

“I want to encourage you to place yourself totally into God's hands and allow Him to be the Manager of your life.”

Want Wisdom Hands Managers

Author:Joyce Meyer

“It's one thing to ask your bank manager for an overdraft to buy 500 begonias for the borders in Haslemere, but quite another to seek financial succour to avail oneself of the 5-2 they're offering on lie de Bourbon for the St Leger.”

Lying Asks One Thing Financial Oneself Managers Borders Gambling Offering Betting Bourbon

Author:Jeffrey Bernard

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