Top 77 Good Manager Quotes
#1. If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act.
Lee Iacocca
#2. Many of the factors that we think will cause motivation, such as fair pay and a good manager, won't make you love your job. Even if you eliminate what makes you dissatisfied, that doesn't make you motivated. It doesn't make your work rewarding. You just are less bothered by things.
Clayton Christensen
#3. The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
Casey Stengel
#4. I like to think that I've been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product.
Linus Torvalds
#5. The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he's managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he's put in charge anyway.
W. Edwards Deming
#6. To be a good manager of people requires both fairness and bluntness.
James Cook
#7. As a goalkeeper you need to be good at organising the people in front of you and motivating them. You need to see what's going on and react to the threats. Just like a good manager in business.
Peter Shilton
#8. A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.
Laozi
#9. Reading a book about management isn't going to make you a good manager any more than a book about guitar will make you a good guitarist, but it can get you thinking about the most important concepts.
Drew Houston
#10. You don't have to be popular with the players to be a good manager or coach.
Francis Lee
#11. Every good leader is part manager and every good manager is part leader.
Condoleezza Rice
#12. I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager.
Victoria Principal
#13. I found that competition was supposed to be a menace and that a good manager circumvented his competitors by getting a monopoly by artificial means.
Henry Ford
#14. I never thought I was a very good manager.
Barry Diller
#15. A good manager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wasting the energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight you openly when they think that you are wrong - that's healthy.
Robert Townsend
#16. If I Had To Sum Up In One Word The Qualities That Make Up A Good Manager, I'd Say Decisiveness.
Lee Iacocca
#17. JUSTICE: Nothing bothers me. I'm unflappable. It's why I'm a good manager.
Bijou Hunter
#18. I guess I'm a good manager now. Moreover, I'm loving the concept of donning the producer's hat. It's all very exciting as well as a great learning experience. You're a part of a film right from its conception to its execution, and that's an amazing feeling.
Malaika Arora Khan
#19. Decisiveness is the one word that makes a good manager.
Lee Iacocca
#20. A good manager will always have the big picture in mind and guide the employees through a series of small targets in order to achieve overall success.
Abhishek Ratna
#21. The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness.
Lee Iacocca
#22. I think what's important in a good manager and a good agent is that they know your vision and that they are passionate about you and believe in you. Because if they don't, then they're not going to work hard for you, and they're going to send you out on things that you don't want to do.
Maiara Walsh
#23. In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.
Sam Wyly
#24. A good manager instills staff with self-confidence, teaches them to believe in themselves and helps them to realise their brilliance. Do not ever treat your staff with disrespect. It is competent until proven incompetent; not incompetent til proven competent.
Miya Yamanouchi
#25. The key to being a good manager or a good entrepreneur is to pick the right people. Pick the right people, and they'll make you look good.
Joe Gibbs
#26. Call-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. 'Call-time' is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my 'call-time manager,' and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I'm really good at it.
Al Franken
#27. Programming in the abstract sense is what I really enjoy. I enjoy lots of different areas of it ... I'm taking a great deal of enjoyment writing device drivers for Linux. I could also be having a good time writing a database manager or something because there are always interesting problems.
John Carmack
#28. 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
#29. I get tired of hearing it's a crummy world and that people are no damned good. What kind of talk is that? I know a place in Payette, Idaho, where a cook and a waitress and a manager put everything they've got into laying a chicken-fried steak on you.
Robert Fulghum
#30. Telling the entire world and his dog how good a manager I was. I knew I was the best but I should have said nowt and kept the pressure off 'cos they'd have worked it out for themselves.
Brian Clough
#31. The "with God" life is not a life of more religious activities or devotions or trying to be good. It is a life of inner peace and contentment for your soul with the maker and manager of the universe. The "without God" life is the opposite. It is death. It will kill your soul.
John Ortberg
#32. Delegate it to the manager. You have this really good staff that will take care of everything for you. You just have to delegate it and trust it.
Esther Hicks
#33. 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.
Billy Bob Thornton
#34. I can tell people a story that they believe in and get behind. So I'm good at the leadership part. But I've always said that I'm a terrible manager. I'm not good at giving feedback.
Stewart Butterfield
#35. In short, they're a bit like a referee at a sporting event: Do a good job and nobody notices; make a mistake and the finger pointing begins.
Andrew Longman
#36. If you wish to be thought a good estate manager, or a good horseman, or a good physician, or a good flute player without really being one, just imagine all the tricks you have to invent just to keep up appearances. You might succeed at first, but in the end you're going to be exposed as an impostor.
Xenophon
#37. I'd been sending out demos and CDs for years. I knew my stuff was good enough, but I was getting nowhere. Then, three people - my future manager and two publishers - happened to send one of my tracks to EMI publishing in the same week. All of a sudden, they were interested!
Calvin Harris
#38. Managers who aspire to be ethical must challenge the assumption that they're always unbiased and acknowledge that vigilance, even more than good intention, is a defining characteristic of an ethical manager.
Harvard Business School Press
#39. When I met Nathan, I told my tour manager he was too good-looking for me. I don't have a history of dating good-looking men. I've always complained that girls don't get male groupies, and now I've married the first groupie I've ever had. (on her first impression of husband, Nathan Larson)
Nina Persson
#40. My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel, who was my first real acting teacher. Joan was also good friends with my friend Susie Landau Finch, who had first encouraged me to consider acting, so that's how I began studying.
Gale Harold
#41. Whenever something good comes up that sounds like I could be part of the project, my manager and my agents send me in on it.
Tyler Posey
#42. Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players.
Earl Weaver
#43. Fifteen minutes in the majors means you're a great baseball player," said Detroit Tigers manager Jim Leyland - who never got his fifteen minutes above the Triple-A level. "People just can't understand how good you have to be to get there at all.
John Feinstein
#44. I do appreciate that the most important thing as manager is to get good results.
Stuart Pearce
#45. I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results had not been good, he lost a game on December 22 or 23. On Christmas Day, the telephone rang and he was sacked in the middle of our lunch.
Jose Mourinho
#46. Basically, a manager's job is to make other people more productive. What's one really good way to do that? Do the work that is getting in their way. Which means find out what kind of important work your developers dislike the most, and do it for them.
Jon Evans
#47. It's not good if owners of sports teams are talking to sports journalists, bypassing the manager. That goes in the wrong direction wherever it happens. Therefore, I'll refrain from doing this at all.
Hasso Plattner
#48. I am not that good a manager for me to be comfortable borrowing someone else's money.
Jack Dangermond
#49. When results aren't good the manager gets the sack, that's the game.
Roy Keane
#51. I told my manager, 'If we can't do the things now that we want to do, what good is the power? ... Let's test it and try to get the things done that we believe in.'
John Travolta
#52. I'm not just trying to be a good game manager. I'm trying to be great.
Drew Brees
#53. I have a wonderful road manager, and he travels with me. And my valet and friend travels with me. My little entourage is great, and they take good care of me.
Don Rickles
#54. Sometimes I have young comics that ask me, "What should I do when I meet an agent or a manager and they ask me stuff?" And I say, "Well, they always usually ask, 'Where do you see yourself in five years, 10 years, 15 years?' And it's good to have an answer for that."
Baron Vaughn
#55. A manager may be tough and practical, squeezing out, while the going is good, the last ounce of profit and dividend ...
Robert Menzies
#56. As the late baseball manager Sparky Anderson put it: Losing hurts twice as bad as winning feels good.
L. Jon Wertheim
#57. Freddy Demann (Shakira's Manager) is a man that knows the world of music. And I know that I am in good hands.
Shakira
#58. There is a growing sense among Americans outside the Beltway that while President Obama may be a good talker, he is a lousy manager.
Kathleen Troia McFarland
#59. I'm quite bullish. We're coming up on year 15 of a flat stock market. Historically that's a pretty good sign. So I'm not a hedge-fund manager but if I was I think I'd be feeling pretty good.
Marc Andreessen
#60. When I first came to work her i spotted a problem that needed to be solved, but I didn't know what to do. So I called the One Minute Manager. When he answered the phone, I said, Sir, I have a problem. Befor I could get another word out, he said, Good! That's what you've been hired to solve.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#61. A good chef has to be a manager, a businessman and a great cook. To marry all three together is sometimes difficult.
Wolfgang Puck
#62. I have no issue with Elissa. She's a fantastic stage manager, and we've worked together before. In fact, a million years ago we used to be good friends. Back when I still thought her brother was born of a human mother and not spawned straight from Satan's asshole.
Leisa Rayven
#63. 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
#64. Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success.
Sparky Anderson
#65. 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.
Dorothy Stratten
#66. Understanding how to be a good investor makes you a better business manager and vice versa.
Charlie Munger
#67. 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.
Colm Meaney
#68. I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house; but gradually went through all the Latin poets in those moments.
Lord Chesterfield
#69. Good management has considerable impact on engagement levels of the employees and drives them towards excellent performances.
Abhishek Ratna
#70. I've put in 63 years now in the big leagues as a player, coach, manager. And now just being around these young guys, it keeps you going pretty good.
Red Schoendienst
#71. Sometimes when I'm directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that's okay with me.
Adam Rapp
#72. Christians should be good managers and stewards of God's riches
Sunday Adelaja
#73. Arsene Wenger is just an unbelievable manager. I think he's a tremendous person, and he is just as good as there is. You can't judge a manager on one game or on one stretch of games. You judge him over time.
Stan Kroenke
#74. I think that not relying too heavily on one bank and one bank manager is a good rule to learn.
Richard Branson
#75. Ex-Fidelity mutual fund manager Peter Lynch was certainly brilliant in one respect: he knew to get out when the gettin' was good.
Bill Gross
#76. It's unrealistic to expect the person you go to for sage advice also to be the person you go out and have a good time with. And it's unlikely that he or she will be the same person who's pushing you and motivating you to do more every day, like a coach or manager does.
Tom Rath
#77. I'll tell you what makes a great manager: A great manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are. He forces you to have a good opinion of yourself. He lets you know he believes in you.
Reggie Jackson
