A Bad Manager Quotes

#1. Guillen wasn't finished about his intent to stick with Contreras with left-hander Neal Cotts warming up. He was dominating the Twins, ... People think I'm a bad manager or don't know the game or fall asleep during the game and wake up and change pitchers. I'm watching the same game they are.

Ozzie Guillen

#2. That didn't happen. Still, I had six pretty good years and one where I didn't reach what I wanted for myself or the club. I don't accept that makes you a bad manager or a poor coach. If that is the view I strongly disagree with it.

Bryan Robson

#3. If I have a really bad cook or a bad manager or bad sous-chef, I previously would have fired them or lost my temper. But now I realize that if I'm so right, then I should be able to communicate it so clearly that they get it.

David Chang

#4. I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager.

Victoria Principal

#5. In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.

James Russell Lowell

#6. I don't want to say that most rock bands live these formulaic biography existences - but they kinda do. There's always a divorce. There's always an OD. There's always a bad business manager.

Dave Grohl

#7. When I arrived in New York, I was homeless with 400 bucks in my pocket.

Jerome Jarre

#8. I think what I've actually achieved as a manager does sometimes get a bit overlooked, because all people think about is the media side of things. They tend to forget I've not done so bad.

Gordon Strachan

#9. When the Master entered the great temple he asked about everything. Someone said, 'Who will say that this son of the man of Zou knows about ritual? When he enters the temple, he asks about everything'. The Master heard of it and said, 'This is the ritual'.

Confucius

#10. It is during the bad times that the skilled manager lays firm foundations for future growth." - Ratan Tata

Suresh Lulla

#11. What the hell do you have on?"
Emily looked down at her ensemble. "I have done something wrong, haven't I?"
"Did Tinker put you up to this?"
"Well, she said it was my manager uniform."
"You...you look like an oversexed librarian."
She blinked. "Is that a bad thing?

Bella Street

#12. People love to play expectations games, and that is always bad for collaboration internal to a team, with your manager, or externally with customers.

Steven Sinofsky

#13. The revolution of 1893 and the annexation that followed undermined a culture and ended the life of a nation. Compared to what such operations have brought to other countries, though, this one ended well.

Stephen Kinzer

#14. You have not been sticking your dirty fingers in my sauce,' Eve said, and pointed her wooden spoon
at him.
He quickly took the finger out of his mouth. 'First off, they're not dirty. I licked them first.

Rachel Caine

#15. If you wish to be happy, listen to your heart.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. You know what, the drummer is my manager. He's busy. And I'm busy. I don't need the dough, though. But having said that, there's a limit to how much bad music I wanna play. I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn't great.

Aimee Mann

#17. 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!

Merton Miller

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

John Terry

#19. When considering the truth of a proposition, one is either engaged in an honest appraisal of the evidence and logical arguments, or one isn't. Religion is one area of our lives where people imagine that some other standard of intellectual integrity applies.

Sam Harris

#20. As citizens, we understand that it is not about what America may do for us. It's about what can be done by us, together.

Barack Obama

#21. Once more the storm is howling, and half hid
Under this cradle-hood and coverlid
My child sleeps on.

William Butler Yeats

#22. Someone's dead," said Malfoy, and his voice seemed to go up an octave as he said it. "One of your people ... I don't know who, it was dark ... I stepped over the body ... I was supposed to be waiting up here when you got back, only your Phoenix lot got in the way.

J.K. Rowling

#23. Toughest thing for me as a young manager is that a lot of my players saw me play. They know how bad I was.

Tony La Russa

#24. I think for most new kids it's important to sound different from the rest, to have your own sound, to be able to produce something that's not there yet ... If you want to be unique and you want to be a big DJ, create your own style, create your own signature.

Nicky Romero

#25. Society has changed so dramatically that it's empowered the individual, and technology has a lot to do with that. Years ago, if you had a bad experience at a restaurant, you could complain to the manager. Maybe you could picket. Now, you go online and write a review that may go viral.

Brad Katsuyama

#26. I gave up music criticism because of the increasingly obvious conflict of interest. I couldn't say anything bad about the records when I might be meeting that person's manager backstage an hour later.

Stephin Merritt

#27. Telephone message on his manager's answering machine shortly before dying of heroin overdose: I need help bad, man.

Jimi Hendrix

#28. In February 2000, hedge-fund manager James J. Cramer proclaimed that Internet-related companies "are the only ones worth owning right now." These "winners of the new world," as he called them, "are the only ones that are going higher consistently in good days and bad.

Benjamin Graham

#29. As the late baseball manager Sparky Anderson put it: Losing hurts twice as bad as winning feels good.

L. Jon Wertheim

#30. I used to be Snow White but then I drifted.

Bette Davies

#31. I think the best thing you can do is be aware that as a first time founder you are likely to be a very bad manager.

Sam Altman

#32. I believe that it is sometimes less difficult to wake up and feel that I am alone when I really am, than to wake up with someone else and be lonely.

Liv Ullmann

#33. If I say, 'I forgive you,' I have implicitly said you have done something wrong to me. But what forgiveness is at its heart is both saying that justice has been violated and not letting that violation count against the offender.

Miroslav Volf

#34. The Night Manager doesn't exist in the post-Cold war universe, it exists much more in the modern world, I think. There is more action. The bad guys don't have particularly political or national-political affiliations.

Tom Hiddleston