Manager Quotes

#1. For though there was no chance of persuading a pension fund manager looking to make a longer-term loan to buy a Freddie Mac bond that could evaporate tomorrow, one could easily sell him the third tranche of a CMO.

Michael Lewis

#2. Our hope is that a new manager, along with roster improvements, will restore a winning culture.

Larry Beinfest

#3. I went to the store and bought lady fingers, when I got home I noticed one of the fingers was missing so I went back to the store and the manager was nice enough to give me the finger.

Jay London

#4. I started out as a business manager for a national hotel chain based in Oklahoma. I got frustrated with what was happening in the state capital - the high cost of doing business and a lack of educated workers.

Mary Fallin

#5. I go by records and Bob Paisley is the No 1 manager ever!

Alan Hansen

#6. But I think the Champions League Final puts a massive pressure on every player and the manager, but we're enjoying the pressure and hopefully we can go there and win it.

Steven Gerrard

#7. I hit a grand slam off Ron Herbel and when his manager Herman Franks came out to get him, he was bringing Herbel's suitcase.

Bob Uecker

#8. At the end of the 1950s, I started working at a publishing company, Estudios Cor, as production manager, so returning, but not as an author, to the world of letters I had left some years before.

Jose Saramago

#9. 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.

Mark Cuban

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

Victoria Principal

#11. I should have just become a manager.

Drea De Matteo

#12. In the '60s, my father, Wally Amos, had been a talent agent and a personal manager before taking a major career detour in 1975, when he opened a store selling chocolate chip cookies.

Shawn Amos

#13. 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

#14. The agenda should be crafted by the employee who reports to the manager not the manager.

Keith Rabois

#15. In his first term, President Barack Obama played a cautious manager navigating the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression and cleaning up the messes left by President George W. Bush in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Kevin O'Leary

#16. You can't let your employees work from home out of fear they'll slack off without your supervision, you're a babysitter, not a manager. Remote work is very likely the least of your problems.

Jason Fried

#17. The manager is a servant. His master is the institution he manages and his first responsibility must therefore be to it.

Peter Drucker

#18. The manager, in today's world, doesn't get paid to be a steward of resources, a favored term not so many years ago. He or she gets paid for one and only one thing: to make things better (incrementally and dramatically), to change things, to act - today.

Tom Peters

#19. It is astonishing how articulate one can become when alone and raving at a radio. Arguments and counter arguments, rhetoric and bombast flow from one's lips like scurf from the hair of a bank manager.

Stephen Fry

#20. As my manager says, 'These are wonderful problems.'

Jeffrey Tambor

#21. My first real break was meeting my manager, Julie Gibson. She's the one that introduced me to Ford and Innovative and got me started.

Daniella Alonso

#22. I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles.

Scott Adams

#23. 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.

Art Briles

#24. Adieu, valour: rust, rapier: be still, drum, for your manager is in love: yea, he loveth. Assist me, some extemporal god of rhyme, for I am sure I shall turn sonnet. Devise, wit: write, pen, for I am for whole volumes in folio.

William Shakespeare

#25. That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.

Henry Ward Beecher

#26. Many artists stick to making and hire a manager to focus on their business. Artists that build websites and mobile apps can do that, too.

Fred Wilson

#27. J has told me about his past. I know what happened and why. But he is the one person who made me believe in my talent and whatever happened in the past, he's been a wonderful manager to me.

LaToya Jackson

#28. I'm constantly fighting with my manager to reduce the amount of time I have to spend on promotional activities, so I can get back in the studio and work on new music.

Rivers Cuomo

#29. I don't have all these advisers, political advisers. I don't even talk to them because I'm not a slave to a campaign manager, and Trump isn't either.

Joe Arpaio

#30. My aunt Julie was a production manager, and she heard of an opening. Some show was looking for children to run around the house or whatever. I auditioned and got the part, and I showed up in all of my monstrous energy, bouncing everywhere like an electron.

Xavier Dolan

#31. There is something about Game 7 that there's a memory there for you for sure. You want to be a coach or a manager or a player or a goaltender that gets it done, because to me, that's all part of sports. That's what you dream about when you're a little kid - scoring the winning goal.

Mike Babcock

#32. My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner.

Poppy Z. Brite

#33. The manager needs only a molehill to build a mountain, but the money-ger needs a full mountain to build another.

Agona Apell

#34. Certainly, R.E.M. grew out of the Wuxtry record store in Athens, where Peter Buck was working and Michael Stipe came in to visit. And even their later manager, Bertis Downs, they all met and congregated at that record store. So I'm sure we wouldn't see those without the record store.

Gary Calamar

#35. But especially if you have the wrong people within your circle. Truthfully, at the end of the day, no one cares about you in this business whether they are your agent or your manager or your publicist.

Heather Matarazzo

#36. I have a hard time waking up. No alarm clock works! It sounds childish, but I seriously have my manager, my mom or a buddy of mine wake me up if I have to be somewhere. It's a serious issue! I've been very late for some serious gigs because of it!

Jesse McCartney

#37. I am grateful for the willingness of both Jurgen Klinsmann and Everton manager Roberto Martinez to afford me the opportunity to spend time with my kids.

Tim Howard

#38. The days of the 'intuitive' manager are numbered.

Peter Drucker

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

Peter Drucker

#40. Every good leader is part manager and every good manager is part leader.

Condoleezza Rice

#41. From the CEO to the receptionist to the office manager, everybody at your startup business should know that one-minute elevator pitch.

Timi Nadela

#42. You can win in multiple ways - A manager
should never restrict himself when it comes to exploring possibilities.

Abhishek Ratna

#43. In the same way that I had to follow an Italian manager here, I can imagine that it was not easy for an Italian manager to follow me at Porto.

Jose Mourinho

#44. I think maintaining relationships with my friends, my mother, my manager, they're all important.

Christina Applegate

#45. 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

#46. The manager's function is not to make people work, it is to make it possible for people to work.

Tom DeMarco

#47. I was actually the manager of the games department of an amusement park when I was at college, so I understood the coin-op side of the games business very well.

Nolan Bushnell

#48. The job of the average manager requires a shift in focus every few minutes. The job of the average software developer requires that the developer not shift focus more often than every few hours.

Steve McConnell

#49. Get one Manager Commitment as a result of the other Manager Commitment and you have a powerful equation for Earnings: E=MC2.

Stan Slap

#50. The book [Night manager] is amazing. It is amazing to act in any book adaptation, because a book gives you so many secrets and details that don't necessarily get shot in an adaptation. They give you a cushion underneath everything. The detail in the character, the detail in the tone.

Tom Hiddleston

#51. 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

#52. I'm a big baseball fan, and I feel proprietary about the Dodgers. I'm not the owner. I'm not the manager. But I feel passionate about the decisions that they make, and I take it personally when they make decisions I don't like.

Carlton Cuse

#53. Goodlife was originally a ski management/athlete management company. I have a couple friends who are sponsored for skiing and my manager linked up with their manager. We worked out a deal, because they wanted to branch out into music and culture.

SonReal

#54. You don't have to be popular with the players to be a good manager or coach.

Francis Lee

#55. I don't like the anonymity of the banking process - people now don't have a bank manager they ever meet.

Anne Robinson

#56. I was a window dresser for Burton's once. What really put me off was the area manager coming round and saying, Charles, I think you're a natch at this.

Charles Dance

#57. I'm still an idealist. My manager is always trying to talk me out of it, but that's just the way I am.

Ariel Rechtshaid

#58. My dad heard of a studio on the radio, and it was advertised as a place for kids to meet kids, and it was actually a studio, and that's where I met my manager and agent.

Mila Kunis

#59. Alex Ferguson is the best manager I've ever had at this level. Well, he's the only manager I've actually had at this level. But he's the best manager I've ever had.

David Beckham

#60. A founder's perspective is unique.

Entrepreneurs are builders, and the lens through which I view Starbucks and the marketplace is somewhat different from what it would be if I were a professionally schooled manager.

Howard Schultz

#61. I'll miss all my teammates. I'll miss Elvis (Andrus) and (Adrian) Beltre, Mitch (Moreland), Matt Harrison and [manager Ron] Washington. To be honest with you, I hope they go 0-162. I got friends, and I love my friends, but I hope they lose their ass.

Ian Kinsler

#62. My father had to flee from what is today Pakistan when he was a child, and he became a manager at IBM, and any item of consumption he would acquire was a direct measurement of his success in life. But that same equation wasn't going to work for me - I was quite clear about that in my early teens.

Tino Sehgal

#63. If a manager can't control his costs, fire them.

Kevin O'Leary

#64. When a new manager comes in, you need to show him what you can do, but that may mean waiting for your opportunity.

Charlie Adam

#65. First class Manager hire first class leader, second class Manager hire third class manager and third class manager fire first class leader.

Carsten K. Rath

#66. As the manager sits before a performance, as the critics wait like hungry dogs to rip apart the performance, they all become entwined in the theatrics of it all.

Isabella Kruger

#67. My mother is my manager and so knows exactly what I do and so on.

Jonathan Brandis

#68. I think it is conceded that I generally do pretty big things as a manager, am audacious in my outlays and risks, give much for little money, and make my shows worthy the support of the moral and refined classes.

P.T. Barnum

#69. The manager believes soccer is a science and the field a laboratory, but the genius of Einstein and the subtlety of Freud is not enough for the owners and the fans. They want a miracle worker like Our Lady of Lourdes, with the stamina of Gandhi.

Eduardo Galeano

#70. Sometimes the manager must perform with the courage and agility of a circus performer, carefully crossing the highwire between short-term problems and long-term objectives.

Buck Rodgers

#71. 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

#72. I think in any organization you want your manager to have a strong opinion. You don't want them to just say, 'Yes, sir' to things they don't believe in.

Terry Francona

#73. There's never a benefit to bragging too much about a deal because the only sure thing is that I'm probably going to be dealing with that same general manager or that same person over and over again.

Leigh Steinberg

#74. The tough choice facing CIOs is not about only picking one identity as either being strategic or tactical, but about - when acting as a strategic leader, when playing as a tactical manager.

Pearl Zhu

#75. One of the dumber things my manager said was, Stick to the melody. But I can't.

Shawn Colvin

#76. I like to make everything my friends are involved in a little better. I should have just become a manager.

Drea De Matteo

#77. A manager has his cards dealt to him and he must play them.

Miller Huggins

#78. When a manager asks for hard data, that's usually just his way of saying no.

Ward Cunningham

#79. If all the world's a stage, there must be one exhausted stage manager somewhere!

Tom Althouse

#80. My general sensibility is most certainly comedic. But when I signed with my manager, he said, 'I think you could do dramatic stuff as well.' So, rather than making the choice to do it, I sort of agreed and deferred. By no means does it feel close to home, but I was willing to explore it.

Benjamin Koldyke

#81. A hedge fund manager whose clients demand monthly performance reports has different needs than any individual investors with a 20-year time horizon. The needs of that long-term investor differ markedly from someone who is retiring in three years.

Barry Ritholtz

#82. The manager of a team is like a stagecoach, he can't move unless he has the horses.

Pete Rose

#83. You're not going to become a great manager overnight. You're not going to become a great public speaker or figure out how to raise money. These are the things you want to start the clock on as early as possible.

Drew Houston

#84. When I was 22, I met with some janky manager, and she told me, 'You're never going to work at this weight.' I think I was a size 6 at the time. There is just this weird thing about how we perceive women in this country. I would love to be a part of breaking that down.

Melissa McCarthy

#85. Rick Santorum is the grandson of a coal miner. His dad was the manager of a V.A. hospital.

Foster Friess

#86. One conclusion is becoming more and more evident: The primary focus of any manager should be to energize people, to make sure that they actually want to do all that stuff. And doing all that stuff requires motivation.

Jurgen Appelo

#87. As I've got older, I've become more intrigued about formations, tactics, I listen a lot more to the manager's team talk; as a kid, if I'm honest, I never listened.

Michael Owen

#88. 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

#89. A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men; he is a person who can get his men to do the work better than he can.

Frederick W. Smith

#90. I'm not sure there are a lot of things I'd want a manager for. I suppose I feel that at least the decisions I make are coming from me, and I'm not put into a situation that I wouldn't want to be in.

Kate Bush

#91. 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.

Peter Drucker

#92. A manager's ability to turn meetings into a thinking environment is probably an organization's greatest asset.

Nancy Kline

#93. 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

#94. You read the Company's confidential correspondence?' I asked. He hadn't a word to say. It was great fun. 'When Mr. Kurtz,' I continued severely, 'is General Manager, you won't have the opportunity.' He blew the candle out suddenly, and we went outside. The moon had risen. Black

Joseph Conrad

#95. When I was 12, I got a manager, but my mom was against it. It took a lot of convincing. But when I got a job at Manhattan Theatre Club, I think she saw how passionate I was about it and that I worked really hard - and now she's super supportive.

Nicola Peltz

#96. Am I a great manager? Huh. I was blessed to have a front office that found great talent, and then I was smart enough to stay the hell out of their way.

Sparky Anderson

#97. The main reason to measure objectives is not so much to reward or punish individual communications manager for success or failure as it is to learn from the research whether a program should be continued as is, revised, or dropped in favor of another approach

James E. Grunig

#98. She's very active. My mom is my manager and handles day-to-day business to keep the DeGarmo machine up and running! She's a huge, huge part of my career and my life.

Diana DeGarmo

#99. There are only two things a manager needs to know: When to change pitchers and how to get along with your players.

Bucky Harris

#100. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.

Warren Bennis