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“One of the strong principles that I believe in is that you're always learning, whether you're a commissioner, a current general manager, a president or an owner, or somebody that's trying to become a general manger or a coach in the NFL.”

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Author:Roger Goodell

“Desperate times require desperate measures. What Lincoln and the Lobbyist for the Amendment and the Manager of the Amendment and himself, what they did to get this passed was not illegal. It was murky, but what they did was noble and grand. How they went about it was somewhat murky. Nothing they did was really illegal.”

Noble Managers Desperate Illegal Amendments Lobbyists Desperate Measures Desperate Times

Author:Steven Spielberg

“A manager may be tough and practical, squeezing out, while the going is good, the last ounce of profit and dividend . . .”

May Lasts Tough Profit Practicals Managers Dividends Squeezing

Author:Robert Menzies

“Managers are the basic and scarcest resource of any business enterprise.”

Resources Managers Enterprise

Author:Peter Drucker

“If a manager spends more than 10 percent of his time on "human relations" the group is probably too large.”

Ifs Humans Groups Percent Relation Managers Human Relations

Author:Peter Drucker

“The job of a professional manager is not to like people. It is not to change people. It is to put their strengths to work.”

People Jobs Managers

Author:Peter Drucker

“If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will.”

Ifs Self Leadership Discipline Function Independent Managers

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

“To be a good boss, you must be transparent. Theres a correlation between worker happiness and workplace transparency. Leaders and managers who offer transparency will earn the respect and devotion of their team.”

Leader Team Offers Workers Devotion Managers Boss Workplace Transparent Transparency Correlation Good Boss

Author:David Niu

“Today the average inhabitant of the western hemisphere knows a little of everything. He has the newspaper on his breakfast table and wireless within reach. For the evening there is the film, cards, or a meeting to complete a day spent in the office or factory where nothing that is essential has been learnt. With slight variation this picture of a low cultural average holds good over the entire range from factory-hand of clerk to manager or director. Only the personal will to culture, in whatever field and however pursued raises modern man above this level.”

“Managers thinking about accounting issues should never forget one of Abraham Lincoln's favorite riddles: How many legs does a dog have, if you call a tail a leg? The answer: Four, because calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.”

Ifs Thinking Should Doe Answers Forget Issues Four Dog Calling Management Legs Managers Never Forget Tails Abraham Accounting Riddle

Book:Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha

Source: Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha

“If the technology cannot shoulder the entire burden of strategic change, it nevertheless can set into motion a series of dynamicsthat present an important challenge to imperative control and the industrial division of labor. The more blurred the distinction between what workers know and what managers know, the more fragile and pointless any traditional relationships of domination and subordination between them will become.”

“If a manager of mine ever said someone was indispensable, I'd fire him.”

Ifs Said Sports Fire Mines Managers Indispensable

Author:Charlie Finley

“I think the idea that the hedge fund manager gets lower taxes than the taxi driver or the physics professor is insane. The legislators who leave that policy in place are derelict in their duties to be rational and fair. There are plenty of them in both political parties. It's totally outrageous.”

Thinking Ideas Political Party Policy Duty Taxes Fairs Physics Rational Insane Plenty Managers Fund Drivers Professors Political Parties Outrageous Taxi Legislators Hedge Fund Derelict

Author:Charlie Munger

“Jim Fregosi will be deeply missed in the baseball world. Joni and the rest of the family are in our prayers. Fregos, was the best manager I've ever played for. Our relationship was so special.and he was the one that taught me how to be a leader. Fregos and I could relate to each other whether we were in the clubhouse or on the field. In 1993 The City of Brotherly Love changed the world..Fregos was the driving force!!!”

World Force Prayer Cities Leader Special Fields Changed Taught Baseball Driving Managers Relate Our Relationship Our Prayers Driving Force Brotherly Brotherly Love Best Manager

Author:Darren Daulton

“The three most important things a manager does: One is get the money. Two is always remember to get the money. Three is never forget to always remember to get the money.”

Doe Two Important Remember Three Forget Important Things Managers Never Forget

Author:Shep Gordon

“I don't love the idea of the responsibility falling on the manager. That just adds to their in-game responsibility.”

Ideas Fall Games Responsibility Add Managers

Author:Cal Ripken, Jr.

“My old manager of the Irish National Theatre said 'Don't worry about being a star, just worry about being a working actor. Just keep working.' I think that's really good advice.”

Thinking Said Actors Stars Worry Advice Theatre Managers Old Man Good Advice

Author:Colm Meaney

“He [Jock Stein] phoned and asked me to come over and see him one night Hibs were playing at home to Aberdeen. You know Im coming as manager, he said, and I know youll be disappointed. But I want to reciprocate for you making me your deputy by asking you to become my assistant.”

Knows Want Said Home Night Asking Managers Disappointed One Night Assistants Jocks Deputies Reciprocate Aberdeen

Author:Sean Fallon

“There's no media training. In cooking school, there's not even manager training. You learn the fundamentals of cooking. Everything else is learning by doing.”

School Media Training Fundamentals Cooking Managers Learning By Doing Media Training

Author:Rene Redzepi

“People exaggerate their own skills. they are optimistic about their prospects and overconfident about their guesses, including which managers to pick.”

People Skills Picks Including Optimistic Managers Prospects Overconfident

Author:Richard Thaler

“In order to become a big-league manager you have to be in the right place at the right time. That's rule number one.”

Bigs Order Numbers Managers League Right Time Right Place

Book:Nice Guys Finish Last

Source: Nice Guys Finish Last

“The catch off Bobby Morgan (a backhanded grab of the Brooklyn Dodger's line drive in September 1951 at Ebbets Field) in Brooklyn was the best catch I ever made. Jackie Robinson and (Giants manager) Leo Durocher were the first people I saw when I opened my eyes”

People Firsts Made Eye Lines Saws Fields Managers Giants September Brooklyn Jackie Dodgers

Author:Willie Mays

“It's pretty simple, the way I look at it. I became a Hall of Famer here (in New York), with my numbers here and what I've done here, and hopefully three-hundred will be another big part of that. When (former Red Sox general manager Dan) Duquette said that I was done, if I'd have taken his advice and went home, I wouldn't have been a Hall of Famer. So it's a no-brainer. It's definitely pretty easy. Reggie (Jackson) spent five years here, and this will be five for me.”

Ifs Way Years Looks Has Beens Said Done Home Bigs Three Easy Simple Numbers Taken Five Advice New York Hundred Red Former Hopefully Managers Five Years Halls No Brainer General Manager

Author:Roger Clemens

“He (Frank Robinson as Manager) can step on your shoes, but he doesn't mess up your shine.”

Steps Shining Shoes Mess Managers Frank

Author:Joe Morgan

“The approach and strategies are very similar in that you gather all the information you can and then keep adding to that base of information as things develop. You do whatever the probabilities indicated based on the knowledge that you have at that time, but you are always willing to modify your behaviour or your approach as you get new information. In bridge, you behave in a way that gets the best from your partner. And in business, you behave in the way that gets the best from your managers and your employees.”

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Author:Warren Buffett

“Investors, of course, can, by their own behavior make stock ownership highly risky. And many do. Active trading, attempts to "time" market movements, inadequate diversification, the payment of high and unnecessary fees to managers and advisors, and the use of borrowed money can destroy the decent returns that a life-long owner of equities would otherwise enjoy. Indeed, borrowed money has no place in the investor's tool kit.”

“Index funds have regularly produced rates of return exceeding those of active managers by close to 2 percentage points. Active management as a whole cannot achieve gross returns exceeding the market as a while and therefore they must, on average, underperform the indexes by the amount of these expense and transaction costs disadvantages.”

Whole Achieve Return Amount Cost Management Rate Investing Average Active Managers Fund Expenses Gross Percentages Disadvantages Transactions Index Funds Active Management

Author:Burton Malkiel

“But whatever the consensus on the EMH, I know of no serious academic, professional money manager, trained security analyst, or intelligent individual investor who would disagree with the thrust of EMH: The stock market itself is a demanding taskmaster. It sets a high hurdle that few investors can leap.”

Knows Individual Security Serious Intelligent Investing Managers Leap Disagree Investors Academic Consensus Thrust Analysts Hurdle

Author:John C. Bogle

“... Any pension fund manager who doesn't have the vast majority-and I mean 70% or 80% of his or her portfolio-in passive investments is guilty of malfeasance, nonfeasance or some other kind of bad feasance!”

Kind Mean Majority Investment Investing Guilty Managers Fund Passive Pension Portfolios Malfeasance

Author:Merton Miller

“Perhaps there really are managers who can outperform the market consistently - logic would suggest that they exist. But they are remarkably well-hidden.”

Wells Logic Investing Managers Consistently

Author:Paul Samuelson

“The debate can be put in the form of the question: Resolved, that the best of money managers cannot be demonstrated to be able to deliver the goods of superior portfolio-selection performance. Any jury that reviews the evidence, and there is a great deal of relevant evidence, must at least come out with the Scottish verdict: Superior investment performance is unproved.”

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Author:Paul Samuelson

“It's human nature to find patterns where there are none and to find skill where luck is a more likely explanation (particularly if you're the lucky manager).”

Ifs Humans Human Nature Lucky Skills Luck Investing Patterns Managers Explanation

Author:William J. Bernstein

“Mutual fund manager performance does not persist and the return of stock picking is zero.”

Doe Return Performances Investing Managers Fund Mutual Zero Persist Mutual Fund

Book:The Four Pillars of Investing

Source: The Four Pillars of Investing

“99% of fund managers demonstrate no evidence of skill whatsoever.”

Skills Evidence Investing Managers Fund

Author:William J. Bernstein

“When it comes to fund managers and market strategists, this year's hero usually turns into next year's zero.”

Years Turns Next Hero Investing Managers Fund Zero Next Year Strategist

Book:The Investor's Manifesto: Preparing for Prosperity, Armageddon, and Everything in Between

Source: The Investor's Manifesto: Preparing for Prosperity, Armageddon, and Everything in Between

“There are a few investment managers, of course, who are very good - though in the short run, it's difficult to determine whether a great record is due to luck or talent. Most advisors, however, are far better at generating high fees than they are at generating high returns. In truth, their core competence is salesmanship. Rather than listen to their siren songs, investors - large and small - should instead read Jack Bogle's The Little Book of Common Sense Investing.”

“Fund investors are confident that they can easily select superior fund managers. They are wrong.”

Investing Superiors Managers Fund Investors Select

Book:The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns

Source: The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns

“The commission of the investment sins listed above is not limited to 'the little guy.' Huge institutional investors, viewed as a group, have long underperformed the unsophisticated index-fund investor who simply sits tight for decades. A major reason has been fees: Many institutions pay substantial sums to consultants who, in turn, recommend high-fee managers. And that is a fool's game.”

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Author:Warren Buffett

“Markets are efficient, but there are different dimensions of risk and those lead to different dimensions of expected returns. That's what people should be concerned with in their investment decisions and not with whether they can pick stocks, pick winners and losers among the various managers delivering basically the same product.”

“People would be a lot more skeptical if they understood that there is an incredible amount of chance in the results that you observe for active managers. So the distribution of outcomes is enormously wide - but that's exactly what you'd expect by chance with lots of active managers who hold imperfectly diversified portfolios. The really good portfolios contain a lot of really lucky picks, and the really bad portfolios contain a lot of really unlucky picks as well as some really bad ones.”

People Ifs Wells Would Be Chance Results Amount Lucky Picks Understood Incredibles Investing Active Wide Managers Outcomes Distribution Skeptical Unlucky Portfolios

Author:Eugene Fama

“I have become increasingly convinced that the past records of mutual fund managers are essentially worthless in predicting future success. The few examples of consistently superior performance occur no more frequently than can be expected by chance.”

Past Chance Records Example Performances Investing Convinced Expected Superiors Managers Fund Mutual Consistently Worthless Predicting Future Success Mutual Fund Superior Performance

Author:Burton Malkiel

“Experience conclusively shows that index-fund buyers are likely to obtain results exceeding those of the typical fund manager, whose large advisory fees and substantial portfolio turnover tend to reduce investment yields. Many people will find the guarantee of playing the stock-market game at par every round a very attractive one. The index fund is a sensible, serviceable method for obtaining the market's rate of return with absolutely no effort and minimal expense.”

“The number of managers with great track records in a given market depends far more on the number of people who started in the investment business (in place of going to dental school), rather than on their ability to produce profits.”

People School Given Ability Numbers Records Produce Depends Investment Investing Track Profit Managers Track Record Dental

Book:Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

Source: Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

“Millions of mutual-fund investors sleep well at night, serene in the belief that superior outcomes result from pooling funds with like-minded investors and engaging high-quality investment managers to provide professional insight. The conventional wisdom ends up hopelessly unwise, as evidence shows an overwhelming rate of failure by mutual funds to deliver on promises.”

“Invest in low-turnover, passively managed index funds... and stay away from profit-driven investment management organizations... The mutual fund industry is a colossal failure... resulting from its systematic exploitation of individual investors... as funds extract enormous sums from investors in exchange for providing a shocking disservice... Excessive management fees take their toll, and manager profits dominate fiduciary responsibility.”

“Index funds eliminate the risks of individual stocks, market sectors, and manager selection. Only stock market risk remains.”

Individual Risk Remains Investing Managers Fund Selection Index Funds Market Risk

Author:John C. Bogle

“A manager of people knows that in this stable state it is distracting to tell the worker about a mistake.”

People Knows States Mistake Management Workers Managers Stable

Author:W. Edwards Deming

“As a result of overdiversification, their (active managers) returns get watered down. Diversification covers up ignorance. Active managers haven't done enough research into any of their companies. If managers have 200 positions, do you think they know what's going on at any one of those companies at this moment?”

Ifs Thinking Knows Done Enough Moments Results Company Havens Position Ignorance Return Research Investing Active Managers Cover Ups Diversification

Author:Bill Ackman

“The idea that a bell rings to signal when investors should get into or out of the stock market is simply not credible. After nearly fifty years in this business, I do not know of anybody who has done it successfully and consistently. I don't even know anybody who knows anybody who has done it successfully and consistently. Yet market timing appears to be increasingly embraced by mutual fund investors and the professional managers of fund portfolios alike.”

Knows Should Years Ideas Done Investing Rings Managers Fifty Fund Mutual Investors Bells Timing Consistently Signals Credible Portfolios Mutual Fund Market Timing

Book:Common Sense on Mutual Funds

Source: Common Sense on Mutual Funds

“I have heard of managers who encourage players not to slide hard for fear they will get hurt and be lost from the lineup for a time. That is why you occasionally see a player go into second base on a double-play ball and not even bother to slide. I wonder, could Ty Cobb sit though plays like that and hold his lunch?”

Hard Play Lost Hurt Wonder Player Heard Balls Managers Bother Lunch Slides

Author:Frank Robinson

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