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“I'm much more of a realist. I'm really practical. I'm the kind of person that calls my business manager and says, OK, if it were all to end today, how many months do I have to live?”

Ifs Kind Persons Ends Today Months Practicals Managers Realist

Author:Courteney Cox

“There are two schools of thought. A manager would tell you that must make them realize you're a dedicated actor and I took a totally different route than that. I never ever took myself seriously.”

Two Different School Actors Realizing Managers Dedicated Routes

Author:George Hamilton

“My manager lives on my block; four of the apartments in my apartment complex of seven are people I know. It's a really close-knit community, and almost everyone on these few blocks are artists or graphic designers, because we live right on the cusp of a warehouse district.”

People Knows Artist Community Four Complexes Seven Block Managers Designer Apartment Graphic Warehouse Graphic Designer Cusp

Author:Grimes

“I don't like writing straight-up thrillers. I like writing about families hurled into crisis and danger - soccer moms and regular dads and husbands who might have to rescue their daughters or who are, say, hedge fund managers and have one foot on the sidelines watching their kids and the other in nefarious cover-ups and conspiracies.”

Writing Might Kids Mother Feet Danger Mom Dad Husband Daughter Crisis Managers Soccer Fund Conspiracy Rescue Thrillers About Family Cover Ups Sidelines Straight Up Hedge Fund Soccer Mom

Author:Andrew Gross

“Authentic stardom ... is a gift which, if it is to have any permanent significance, must be bestowed by a public rather than a manager.”

Ifs Actors Fame Managers Permanent Significance Stardom

Author:Katharine Cornell

“I didn't want to chase movies. It's too hard. You've got to work at it - opening nights, photo shoots, publicity people, managers. I never wanted to do that. I'm too lazy.”

People Want Hard Wanted Night Opening Managers Lazy Publicity Photo Shoots Opening Night

Author:Robert Sean Leonard

“When I first got out of drama school, my original manager tried to get me to change my name because people were having trouble spelling it and saying it.”

People Firsts School Names Trouble Drama Originals Managers Spelling

Author:Joe Manganiello

“Managers at [the nuclear] sector should know that we need diplomacy and not slogans, .. This [is] where we should use all our leverages with patience and wisdom, without provocation and slogans that can give pretexts to the enemies.”

Knows Needs Giving Should Use Enemy Nuclear Managers Diplomacy Slogans Pretext Provocation

Author:Bill Vaughan

“But, what did happen is I went to Woodstock as a member of the audience. I did not show up there with a road manager and a couple of guitars. I showed up with a change of clothes and a toothbrush.”

Shows Happens Audience Couple Members Clothes Guitar Managers Woodstock Toothbrushes

Author:John Sebastian

“I believe one of the best things about managing people is that we can influence lives in a positive way. That's basically what a manager is about. When I can do that, I am very happy.”

People Way Believe I Can I Believe Can Do Influence Managers Best Things Very Happy Managing People

Author:Arsene Wenger

“When I came out here, my manager thought that casting directors might think I'm a girl, and when I did Threat Matrix, they thought Jamie was a little light.”

Thinking Littles Light Might Girl Directors Threat Managers Casting Jamie Casting Directors

Author:James Denton

“My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?” What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.”

Trying I Can Dream Promise Managers Maggie Promise Me Letterman

Author:Maggie Q

“the middle manager is doomed to remain just that. Once an office rat, always an office rat.”

Work Business Middle Office Managers Doomed Rats

Book:Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay

Source: Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay

“Manager' is a title, not a function. It's better to be one than not. Since you spend all day doing the job of the person above you, the higher up you are, the less you have to do.”

Persons Jobs Work Higher Function Managers Titles

Book:Bonjour laziness: jumping off the corporate ladder

Source: Bonjour laziness: jumping off the corporate ladder

“I got a note from the stage manager one night that someone wanted to meet me. And it was Steven Spielberg.”

Wanted Night Stage Notes Managers One Night Stage Managers

Author:Corey Reynolds

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

Leader Very Good Managers Good Man Good Leader Good Manager

Author:Condoleezza Rice

“When a copier sales person cold calls a purchasing manager whom he has never met is it any surprise that the purchasing manager will most likely never return that call?”

Persons Cold Return Mets Surprise Managers Purchasing Sales Person Copiers

Author:Josh Turner

“Most managers in the rock n' roll world... don't care so much about who's in the band as long as it's making money.”

World Long Care Rocks Band Don't Care Managers Making Money Rock N Roll

Author:Jon Anderson

“Everyone in the world disagrees with me, including some managers, but I think managing in the American League is much more difficult for that very reason (having the designated hitter). In the National League, my situation is dictated for me. If I'm behind in the game, I've got to pinch hit. I've got to take my pitcher out. In the American League, you have to zero in. You have to know exactly when to take them out of there. In the National League, that's done for you.”

Ifs Thinking Knows World Reason Done Games Difficult Behinds Situation Including Managers League Zero Disagree Pitcher Designated Hitter

Author:Jim Leyland

“A writer writes for writers, a non-writer writes for his next-door neighbor or for the manager of the local bank branch, and he fears (often mistakenly) that they would not understand or, in any case, would not forgive his boldness.”

Writing Next Cases Doors Forgiving Neighbor Locals Managers Branches Boldness Next Door Neighbors

Book:How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays

Source: How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays

“Insecure managers create complexity. Frightened, nervous managers use thick convoluted planning books and busy slides filled with everything they’ve known since childhood……. They worry that if they’re simple, people will think they’re simple minded. In reality, of course, it’s just the reverse. Clear, tough minded people are the most simple.”

People Ifs Thinking Book Use Reality Courses Simple Known Worry Clear Childhood Tough Filled Busy Planning Nervous Managers Complexity Frightened Thick Reverse Insecure Slides Convoluted

Author:Jack Welch

“Ninety percent of our managers started in the hourly ranks or started in the lower ranks.”

Percent Managers Ninety

Author:J. W. "Bill" Marriott, Jr.

“An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.”

Giving Purpose Rights Performances Managers Publishers Publication Imbeciles

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“The stock market's handling of new technology is kind of a joke. We have seen CNBC, CNNfn, Bloomberg, and the like turn into home-shopping networks for stocks. Fund managers and analysts go on TV and sell what's shiny and easy to sell.”

Kind Home Turns Easy Technology Tvs Goes On Jokes Sells Managers Fund Shopping New Technology Analysts

Author:Mark Cuban

“One thing I learned in the NBA is that the No. 1 job of a general manager is to keep his job. They are only 30 positions where you make millions and hang around with basketball players all day.”

Jobs Millions Player One Thing Position Basketball Managers Nba Basketball Player General Manager

Author:Mark Cuban

“Let's acknowledge that men reach for opportunities more quickly and more easily than women. So often as managers, we give the job to whoever starts solving the problem, to whoever jumps in. Since we know men will jump in faster than women in so many circumstances, we have to slow down and encourage more women to sit at more tables.”

Knows Men Giving Problem Jobs Opportunity Circumstances Down And Tables Managers Faster Acknowledge Know Me Slow Down

Author:Sheryl Sandberg

“Sixty-four percent of managers in the U.S. are afraid to be alone in a room with a woman. Mentoring is all about being alone in a room with someone. Let's start talking about this honestly. The lack of equal access is the silent killer for women and no one wants to talk about it.”

Want Rooms Talking Four Equal Percent Silent Access Honestly Managers Killers Sixty Mentoring

Author:Sheryl Sandberg

“Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers.”

People Saws Type University Managers

Author:Simon Mawer

“I have always had the deepest respect for Bill Nicholson as a person and as a manager. The Spurs boss is an honest Yorkshireman and you will go a long way before finding a straighter character than that. Bill has never wavered in his determination to give White Hart Lane fans the best.”

Way Giving Persons Long Character White Fans Honest Findings Determination Bills Managers Boss Long Way Lanes Spurs Hart Nicholson

Author:Bill Shankly

“Ex-Fidelity mutual fund manager Peter Lynch was certainly brilliant in one respect: he knew to get out when the gettin was good.”

Brilliant Managers Fund Mutual Peter Exes Fidelity Mutual Fund

Author:Bill Gross

“I always liked Casey Stengel as a manager because he seemed to have a grasp of so many things.”

Managers

Author:Walter Alston

“Your time as a manager is finite and valuable.”

Valuable Managers Finite

Author:Matthew Yglesias

“The managers are getting paid very well by their respective clubs to do a job for their clubs not the country they are working in.”

Wells Country Jobs Paid Clubs Managers

Author:Alan Shearer

“We all go back to our roots. My father went to the central west, went to Ilfracombe in 1919. He was the manager of the wool scour there. And, Ilfracombe was right at the heart of Australia's great wool industry, and my mother was a teacher at Winton.”

Heart Mother Father Teacher Industry Roots West Managers Australia Wool

Author:Quentin Bryce

“The whole enterprise of teaching managers is steeped in the ethic of data-driven analytical support. The problem is, the data is only available about the past. So the way weve taught managers to make decisions and consultants to analyze problems condemns them to taking action when its too late.”

Way Whole Problem Action Past Decision Support Teaching Taught Late Ethics Available Driven Managers Data Enterprise Too Late Taking Action Consultants

Author:Clayton Christensen

“In the end, as a manager or coach, you have to keep your heart pure and do your best as a manager or a coach.”

Heart Ends Pure Coaches Managers

Author:Tony La Russa

“The first person besides my mother who believed in me was a man whose last name I never knew. He was my boss, the manager of Swenson's Ice Cream shop.”

Men Firsts Persons Lasts Mother Names He Man Ice Managers Shops Boss Cream Ice Cream First Person

Author:Mona Simpson

“Sir Alex Ferguson ceases to amaze me as a manager”

Cease Managers Alex Ferguson Sir Alex Ferguson

Author:Tony Cascarino

“Getting fired is what happens to a manager sooner or later.”

Happens Managers Sooner Or Later Getting Fired

Author:Joe Torre

“You're at your best when you don't know what you're doing.”

“Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.”

Today Results Resources Managers Get Better Limited Resources

Author:Brian Tracy

“I'm a project manager, not a magician. Magicians have way cooler hats.”

Way Projects Managers Hats Magician

Author:Merlin Mann

“The international manager reconciles cultural dilemmas”

International Managers Dilemma Reconcile

Author:Fons Trompenaars

“If you're a manager and you're stuck doing the same thing year after year, you're going to get stale and not know how to motivate people. Part of becoming better at what you do requires challenging yourself on a constant basis.”

People Ifs Knows Years Challenges Know How Becoming Bases Constant Stuck Managers Stale Challenge Yourself Becoming Better

Author:Art Briles

“I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager.”

Managers

Author:Arne Glimcher

“When you look back you talk about legends of the game, he's certainly up there. Twenty trophies since 1994. He just seems to get better and better. I've had the honour of playing alongside him. The four years I've played alongside him, he is the best player, one of the first names on the manager's teamsheet. He is just a complete legend. There are not enough players like Paul Scholes around any more for my liking. 'Legend' is over-used but this guy is right up there with the very best.”

Years Firsts Looks Enough Seems Used Guy Games Names Four Player Twenties Managers Get Better Honour Legends Four Years This Guy Trophies Best Players Scholes Paul Scholes

Author:Dwight Yorke

“Toughest job in baseball is the general manager. Second toughest is the hitting coach.”

Jobs Baseball Coaches Managers Hitting General Manager

Author:Ken Harrelson

“One thing I've learned is that I'm not the owner of my talent; I'm the manager of it.”

One Thing Talent Managers I've Learned Owners Things I've Learned

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“Friends of friends had bands in college or in their early 20s and had a moment where they had some kind of interest from a record label or manager. It's always interesting how people handle those decisions and those moments.”

People Kind Moments Interest Decision Interesting Records College Band Handle Managers Labels Record Labels Early 20s

Author:Noah Baumbach

“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.”

Knows Women Managers Good Man Occupation Honorable Housework Housekeeping Good Manager

Book:The Complete Essays of Montaigne

Source: The Complete Essays of Montaigne

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