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“I had 11 years of managerial experience and four years of coaching before I managed a big-league team. To me, it was important, because I learned a lot through trial and error. And it's tough to have to go through trial and error when you're a big-league manager.”

Years Important Bigs Four Team Tough Errors Trials Managers League Coaching Four Years Trial And Error

Author:Jim Leyland

“I need to be out earning. I can make more in two hours at a card show than I did [as a minor-league manager] all year.”

Needs Years I Can Two Shows Hours Cards Managers League Minors Earning

Author:Mike Schmidt

“Every manager dreams of a job like this [the England job] and I will be sure to learn English within one month.”

Dream Jobs Months England Managers

Author:Fabio Capello

“In the last few days when I was not even the manager of England my freedom was taken away from me and that is not the coaching I am used to.”

Lasts Used Taken England Managers Coaching

Author:Luiz Felipe Scolari

“The England manager job is not for me - I'm very happy wih what I'm doing in French football for now.”

Jobs Football England Managers Very Happy

Author:Gerard Houllier

“A manager can't act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.”

Needs Roles Models Managers Role Models

Author:Ben Horowitz

“John Bond has blackened my name with his insinuations about the private lives of football managers. Both my wives are upset.”

Names Wife Football My Wife Managers Upset Private Life

Author:Malcolm Allison

“The actor must be full of passion. If he's too cool he's better off as the manager of a company, not someone who appears on the stage.”

Ifs Passion Actors Company Stage Managers Better Off Too Cool

Author:Stella Adler

“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.”

“I always knew I had to be 100 percent in charge, even when I was a middle manager. I used to say to my boss, "Just give me enough rope and then fire me."”

Giving Enough Used Fire Middle Percent Give Me Managers Boss Rope

Author:Ricky Gervais

“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.”

Jobs Actors Lost Failing Students Prove Economics Track Theatre Managers Tickets Assistants Lost Money

Author:William Shatner

“Now you know you're going to have to play music for the label, you know you're going to have to get an opinion from the manager. Now, I'm so much more conscious and it bothers me. I try to find my way back to writing without being too analytical or not thinking about whether this is good or is it bad.”

Thinking Knows Way Writing Trying Play Opinion Conscious Managers My Way Labels Bother

Author:Yukimi Nagano

“I fired a bunch of people and kind of went back to my roots. I fired my agent - I had this big, fancy agent and a big fancy manager and a big fancy lawyer - and I went back to my first agent and said, "I want to go back to just being an actor."”

People Want Firsts Kind Said Bigs Actors Roots Lawyer Bunch Agents Managers Fancy Just Being

Author:Matthew Lillard

“Can't do any work with a rock star; you have to go through their lawyers and their agents and their managers and you have to book them hotel rooms. When you work with your friends, you just call them up and they come over and you record and then you go out to see a movie.”

Book Stars Rooms Records Rocks Lawyer Agents Managers Hotel Rock Star Hotel Rooms

Author:Moby

“The important word there is inspire. The key difference between managers and leaders is that managers tell people what to do, while leaders inspire them to do it. Inspiration comes from three things: clarity of one's vision, courage of their conviction and the ability to effectively communicate both of those things.”

“Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager.”

School Education Teacher Managers Obedience Grades Relevant Measurement Teaching Children Good Grades Bad Grades

Author:John Taylor Gatto

“If I told my wife I was going to become a manager she'd say 'sign this then. Don't worry it's only a divorce. Au revoir'.”

Ifs Worry Wife Divorce My Wife Managers

Author:David Ginola

“I have been skeptical and not trusting of traditional models of the entertainment industry. I never got a manager.”

Has Beens Industry Models Entertainment Traditional Managers Skeptical Entertainment Industry Not Trusting

Author:Tim Heidecker

“If it's true you learn from your mistakes, Jim Frey will be the best manager ever”

Ifs Mistake Managers Being The Best True You Learn From Your Mistakes Best Manager

Author:Ron Luciano

“I know as a manager you have to abide by the chairman's decisions. But his decisions were this team, that team, this player, that player. The chairman is a control freak.”

Knows Decision Player Team Managers Freak Chairman Inspirational Team Control Freak

Author:Paul Gascoigne

“We have overwhelming evidence that available information plus analysis does not lead to knowledge. The management science team can properly analyse a situation and present recommendations to the manager, but no change occurs. The situation is so familiar to those of us who try to practice management science that I hardly need to describe the cases.”

Needs Trying Doe Situation Practice Cases Team Information Evidence Management Available Familiar Managers Analysis Plus Overwhelming Recommendations

Author:C. West Churchman

“Because of his compassion Owen was always in trouble with his partners. They would have much preferred a tough, down-to-earth manager who would get a days work out of the little bastards.”

Littles Earth Compassion Trouble Tough Work Out Partners Managers Down To Earth

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“Managers maintain an efficient status quo while leaders attack the status quo to create something new.”

Leader Managers Something New Efficient Status Quo

Author:Orrin Woodward

“After all, advocates, including advocates for States, are like managers of pugilistic and election contestants in that they have a propensity for claiming everything.”

States Election Including Managers Propensity Contestants

Author:Felix Frankfurter

“I have been fortunate to get some really good scripts over the years and I haven't turned down anything that I regretted so far. And my manager who I've been with for over 25 years is very good at knowing what I should and shouldn't do a lot of times.”

Should Years Has Beens Knowing Havens Very Good Scripts Managers Fortunate Turned Down

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“I peeled off La Brea and went home and instantly made a reservation to come back to New York. Essentially, I fired everybody that was in my life, my agent, my lawyer, my manager, my girlfriend and came back to New York.”

Made Home New York Lawyer Agents Managers Girlfriend My Girlfriend Reservations

Author:Steven Shainberg

“I got, like, Diane Keaton's manager, and she was very connected; she had power. And she was like, "Your star is in tears on this comedy. Do you even notice that at all?"”

Stars Comedy Tears Like You Connected Managers

Author:Roseanne Barr

“I'm suspicious of the idea of architects acting like business executives, brand managers, or purveyors of luxury goods.”

Ideas Acting Luxury Brands Managers Executives Goods Architect Suspicious Luxury Goods

Author:David Chipperfield

“Ive got nothing against foreign managers, they are very nice people. Apart from Arsene Wenger”

People Nice Managers Very Nice Nice People Wenger

Author:Tony Pulis

“A manager sets objectives - A manager organizes - A manager motivates and communicates - A manager, by establishing yardsticks, measures - A manager develops people.”

People Communicate Objectives Managers Organize Yardsticks

Author:Peter Drucker

“In the modern corporation the decisive power, that of the managers , is derived from no one but the managers themselves controlled by nobody and nothing and responsible to no one. It is in the most literal sense unfounded, unjustified, uncontrolled and irresponsible power.”

Modern Responsible Managers Corporations Controlled Irresponsible Literal Unjustified

Book:The Future of Industrial Man

Source: The Future of Industrial Man

“It has been said, and only half in jest, that a tough, professionally led union is a great force for improving management performance. It forces the manager to think about what he is doing and to be able to explain his actions and behavior.”

Thinking Has Beens Said Able Action Force Half Behavior Tough Performances Management Unions Managers Improving Jest

Author:Peter Drucker

“The days of the 'intuitive' manager are numbered.”

Managers Intuitive

Book:Management

Source: Management

“To be a manager requires more than a title, a big office, and other outward symbols of rank. It requires competence and performance of a high order.”

Bigs Order Office Performances Symbols Managers Titles Competence

Author:Peter Drucker

“I feel like I have reached the stage where I can no longer produce for my club, my manager, and my teammates. I had a poor year, but even if I had hit .350, this would have been my last year. I was full of aches an pains and it had become a chore for me to play. When baseball is no longer fun, it's no longer a game.”

Ifs Feels Years Has Beens I Can Play Pain Lasts Games Fun Poor Stage Produce Baseball Clubs Managers Last Year Ache Teammate Chores

Author:Joe DiMaggio

“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.”

People Humanity Social Accepting Too Much Fields Economics Journalism Managers Social Science Controllers

Author:Noam Chomsky

“A manager of people needs to understand that all people are different. This is not ranking people. He needs to understand that the performance of anyone is governed largely by the system that he works in, the responsibility of management.”

People Needs Different Responsibility Performances Management Managers Ranking

Author:W. Edwards Deming

“The typical entrepreneur is no longer the bold and tireless man of Marshall, or the sly and rapacious Moneybags of Marx, but a mass of inert shareholders, indistinguishable from rentiers, who employ salaried managers to run their concerns.”

Men Running Mass Concern Entrepreneur Managers Typical Shareholders Sly

Author:Edwin Arlington Robinson

“I could imagine God saying to a lot of us, "Hey, I'm God, and you're not. You're not the general manager of the universe." And the greatest stress reliever is take God seriously, but don't take yourself seriously.”

Universe Imagine Stress Hey Managers General Manager Stress Reliever

Author:Rick Warren

“Prosperity can't be just for CEOs and hedge fund managers. Democracy can't be just for billionaires and corporations. Prosperity and democracy are part of your basic bargain, too.”

Democracy Prosperity Managers Corporations Fund Ceo Bargains Billionaire Hedge Fund

Author:Hillary Clinton

“Art is a form of asset. Hedge-fund managers who have made money fast should diversify into other areas.”

Should Art Made Form Art Is Areas Managers Fund Assets Hedge Fund

Author:Michael Steinhardt

“The key to management is to get rid of the managers.”

Keys Management Managers

Author:Ricardo Semler

“I think that the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example.”

Thinking Example Training Management Managers Engaged

Author:Carlos Ghosn

“More and more, in any company, managers are dealing with different cultures. Companies are going global, but the teams are being divided and scattered all over the planet.”

Different Culture Company Team Planets Managers Divided Different Cultures

Author:Carlos Ghosn

“I managed the Dodgers for 20 years. It's hard to believe that there are only four guys in the history of baseball who managed the same team for 20 years or more. One was owner of the team, Connie Mack. Another was part owner of the team, John McGraw. Then there was my predecessor, Walter Alston, and me. It's amazing. In the 20 years I managed the Dodgers, 210 managers were fired.”

Years Believe Hard Guy Four Team Baseball Managers Owners Predecessors Hard To Believe Dodgers Mack

Author:Tommy Lasorda

“The socially redeeming aspect of golf lies in the vast number of lawyers and bankers and managers who play it, and when you think of the damage they would do if they were at the job instead, you can see why golf courses are a wise investment for any municipality.”

Ifs Thinking Play Jobs Lying Courses Numbers Wise Aspect Golf Investment Lawyer Managers Damage Bankers Golf Course Redeeming Municipality

Author:Garrison Keillor

“If you have a great manager, you want to pay him very well.”

Ifs Want Wells Pay Managers Great Men Great Managers

Author:Warren Buffett

“The new and most powerful union of all will be a union of one one man, one woman, one worker with special skills, an inquiring mind, and an independent attitude, his creativity intact, his love of life blooming. The union of one will be peopled by one man or one woman who is alive. Such a person is always sought by the intelligent manager.”

Source: Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century

“In their work, designers often become expert with the device they are designing. Users are often expert at the task they are trying to perform with the device. [...] Professional designers are usually aware of the pitfalls. But most design is not done by professional designers, it is done by engineers, programmers, and managers.”

Trying Done Design Tasks Managers Experts Designer Devices Users Engineers Programmers Pitfalls

Author:Donald A. Norman

“If you're a manager you can't get frustrated and be emotional. You have to continue to steer the ship, you can't let go of the wheel because who knows where it will go then.”

Ifs Knows Emotional Letting Go Ships Managers Wheels Frustrated Steers Can't Let Go

Author:Kirk Gibson

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