Managers Are Quotes

#1. Some of the greatest advances happen when people are bold enough to speak their truth and listen to others speak theirs.

Kenneth H. Blanchard

#2. USA corporations are legally regulated by laws which their managers know are rarely enforced. This criminal activity is what the USA government calls: Deregulation.

Steven Magee

#3. Man is born to dream, to be enlightened, to connect and to be fulfilled. Managers are too.

Stan Slap

#4. Managers are to information as alcoholics are to booze. They consume enormous amounts, constantly crave more, but have great difficulty in digesting their existing intake.

Robert Heller

#5. Managers help people see themselves as they are; Leaders help people to see themselves better than they are.

Jim Rohn

#6. Leaders are passionate about the Purpose, while Managers need to be passionate about the Results!

Amit Chatterjee

#7. As managers develop the systems approach, they learn to use computers for the things they are good at and to the contrary avoid using computers for things that people are good at. The consequences are fewer computer systems and more control. I

John Seddon

#8. When managers are afraid of redemptions, they get liquid. We all saw how many managers went from leveraged long in 2007 to huge net cash in 2008, when the right thing to do in terms of value would have been to do the opposite.

Seth Klarman

#9. The truly effective managers we've observed are purposeful, trust in their own judgement, and adopt long-term, big-picture views to fulfill personal goals that tally with those of the organization as a whole. They break out of their perceived boxes, take control of their jobs, ...

Sumantra Ghoshal

#10. Some of the most successful people managers are also the best listeners.

Mary Kay Ash

#11. Managers are people who know what they want.
Leaders are people who get what they want.

Bogdan Vaida

#12. As an actor sometimes we sit and wait for projects to be handed to us and we don't really work. We expect our agents and managers to know who we are and to see who we are and offer us a part or send us out and submit us.

Navid Negahban

#13. 21st Century Managers must change their thinking because they are now in the business of managing Mindsets & thinking, which impacts actions and behaviors.

Tony Dovale

#14. I finally stopped complaining about 'Why isn't everybody else making me what I want to be?' You can't rely solely on your agent or your managers to educate people as to who you are.

Laura Benanti

#15. There are pop managers, and then there's Simon Cowell, who isn't gay, Jewish or particularly riveting. He's not without interest but he doesn't exactly have the hinterland of, say, Brian Epstein.

Peter York

#16. Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders - those who set out bold objectives and take risks to change the world. We tend to downplay 'transactional' leaders, whose goals are more modest, as mere managers.

Joseph Nye

#17. The Macintosh having shipped, his next agenda was to turn the rest of Apple into the Mac group. He had perceived the rest of Apple wasn't as creative or motivated as the Mac team, and what you need to take over the company are managers, not innovators or technical people.

Andy Hertzfeld

#18. Having companies like PotashCorp based in Saskatoon or Cameco based in Saskatoon that have worldwide presence but have the head office jobs, the head office managers and head office employees in your local economy are important from a job creation and wealth creation point of view.

N. Murray Edwards

#19. One skill of a great entrepreneur is to get a whole complicated discussion and then say, 'We're going to do this one and we're only going to do this one'. Managers are good at prioritizing. Entrepreneurs know what is the one thing.

Bing Gordon

#20. Conflict manipulation is the favored strategy of people who incessantly worry about failure, of managers who excel at motivational chats that point out the highly unpleasant consequences if the company's goals are not achieved, and of social movements that attempt to mobilize people through fear.

Peter M. Senge

#21. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.

Jack Welch

#22. The monetary managers are fond of telling us that they have substituted 'responsible money management' for the gold standard. But there is no historic record of responsible paper money management ... The record taken, as a whole is one of hyperinflation, devaluation and monetary chaos.

Henry Hazlitt

#23. 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.

Sheryl Sandberg

#24. During the final two weeks of training, our students work simulated game situations in which our staff members role-play as players, managers, and coaches. They are given immediate feedback following each camp game.

Jim Evans

#25. The challenge of being a manager is to get the best out of everybody, not just the few who are clones of yourself.

Tim Field

#26. Managers think of themselves as captains of a ship on a stormy sea. Risk for them is danger, but they are fighting it, very controlled.

Daniel Kahneman

#27. Many managers feel that if they are not notified about problems before others are or if they are surprised in a meeting, then that is a sign of disrespect. Get over it.

Ed Catmull

#28. The best advice I got throughout my career was understanding what my current managers' pains and challenges are - it's not always just about hitting the number.

Jim McDonough

#29. I know a lot of people on the field - players, coaches, managers - are glad that I'm gone.

Frank Robinson

#30. Managers are not confronted with problems that are independent of each other, but with dynamic situations that consist of complex systems of changing problems that interact with each other. I call such situations messes ... Managers do not solve problems, they manage messes. - RUSSELL ACKOFF,

Donella H. Meadows

#31. A sit-down strike is just one step short of saying, "Look, instead of sitting down, we'll run this place. We don't need owners and managers." That's huge. That could be done in Detroit and in other places that are being closed down.

Noam Chomsky

#32. What I've witnessed, managers are divisive and allow musicians to become clouded, irresponsible, and unaware of the world around them.

Jacob Bannon

#33. Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.

Felix Dennis

#34. Overworked managers are doing things they shouldn't be doing.

Tom DeMarco

#35. While most managers spend their time attempting to predict the future accurately - and while that's valuable - the best managers are able to generate a future which was not going to happen otherwise - that is, a future which was not predictable.

Werner Erhard

#36. Money managers have to account for their actions to their shareholders, which means they have an undue fear of underperformance. We invest only our own money. Our investments are driven by optimism, not fear.

Richard Chandler

#37. 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.

Burton Malkiel

#38. There is a patent office at the seat of government of the universe, whose managers are as much interested in the dispersion of seeds as anybody at Washington can be, and their operations are infinitely more extensive and regular.

Henry David Thoreau

#39. Musicians ought to reclaim some of the power in the houses of production. The opera houses are run either by managers or by stage directors, never by musicians.

Laurence Equilbey

#40. We certainly have at present the dismal situation that the most imaginative men are directed by a group, the top managers, who are among the least.

Paul Goodman

#41. Asset managers have different approaches, and I don't wish to suggest there is only one way to run money. There are many ways one can attempt to reduce risk, improve performance, lower drawdowns and reduce volatility.

Barry Ritholtz

#42. I think managers have realized that most software people are slightly brain damaged, that they're off on their own planets.

Eugene Jarvis

#43. My style is to keep folks in place who are good managers and want to win.

Tom Hicks

#44. Introverts listen better, they assess risks more carefully, they can be wiser managers. It's not for nothing that the Silicon Valley billionaires are so often the retiring types.

Jeffrey Kluger

#45. Some managers are able to let go of the past better than others. Those that have the greatest difficulty abandoning things are often those unable to face reality.

Henry Cloud

#46. As a whole, the managers today are different in temperament. Most have very good communication skills and are more understanding of the umpire's job. That doesn't mean they are better managers. It just means that I perceive today's managers a bit differently.

Jim Evans

#47. Most of the managers are lifetime .220 hitters. For years pitchers have been getting these managers out 75% of the time and that's why they don't like us.

Bill Lee

#48. A lot of people don't trust the pitch. There's this kind of reputation it has for being untrustworthy and fickle and capricious and everything else, and those are words that big league managers and general managers and organizations aren't too fond of.

R.A. Dickey

#49. The principles of disruptive innovation are indeed intended to be guidelines to assist managers both in introducing disruptive innovations as well as identifying disruptive developments in their market.

Clayton Christensen

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

Richard Thaler

#51. Many American TV actors employ agents, managers, business managers, publicists and stylists, and are now adding digital media manager to the list. Their job is to reach out to the fans, managing websites, Twitter feeds, Facebook and Wikipedia.

Gina Bellman

#52. AFTER YEARS OF BEING ASKED to do more with less, managers are increasingly aware that they cannot produce the results that are expected of them with the organizations they currently have and the methods they currently use.

Alan G. Robinson

#53. Product managers figure out what features are likely to please customers; product designers then figure out how those features should look and feel.

Eric Ries

#54. It is surely significant that the adults who feature in children's books are rarely, if ever, Regional Sales Managers or Building Services Engineers.

Alain De Botton

#55. managers in most companies are already overwhelmed with good ideas. Their challenge lies in prioritization and execution,

Eric Ries

#56. Culture is what happens when the managers are not around.

Pearl Zhu

#57. After all, advocates, including advocates for States, are like managers of pugilistic and election contestants, in that they have a propensity for claiming everything.

Felix Frankfurter

#58. Managers are agents of transformation, converting the workforce in developed countries from one of manual workers to one of highly educated knowledge workers.

Peter Drucker

#59. you are brought face to face with the great question about the soccer coach: Does he really matter? It turns out that coaches or managers (call them what you like) simply don't make that much difference.

Simon Kuper

#60. Fund investors are confident that they can easily select superior fund managers. They are wrong.

John C. Bogle

#61. The strategies that managers employ are at least as important as the facilities at their disposal.

Anthony Stafford Beer

#62. Managers are the basic and scarcest resource of any business enterprise.

Peter Drucker

#63. Managers tell you where you are, leaders tell you where you're going.

Rands

#64. Managers, regardless of salary, should not be allowed to earn or use comp time. They are expected to work as many hours as needed to get the job done - especially at these salary levels.

Jodi Rell

#65. There are only two kinds of managers. Winning managers and ex-managers.

Gil Hodges

#66. More and more, in any company, managers are dealing with different cultures. Companies are going global, but the teams are being divided and scattered all over the planet.

Carlos Ghosn

#67. As 99 per cent of English authors and 100 per cent of American ones [authors] are just such imbeciles, managers and publishers make a practice of asking for every right the author possesses.

George Bernard Shaw

#68. The tools used by economists to analyze business firms are too abstract and speculative to offer any guidance to entrepreneurs and managers in their constant struggle to bring novel products to consumers at low cost.

Ronald Coase

#69. If you find a community with less production and less inspiring inventions, then know it is a sign of lack of Business Leaders and full of General Managers do not know what they can manage or what they are managing.

Sameh Elsayed

#70. The natural result of utilizing different perspectives is that people are more engaged because they feel their opinions are important.

Eunice Parisi-Carew

#71. For every difficult destination, there are thousands who stand aside and point the way for each one with courage and capacity to go before and show the way. The former are managers; the latter are leaders.

Dee Hock

#72. I'm just happy to be a film where for once I don't have to worry about my hair, because my managers are always complaining about my hair looking depressing in my movies. Which is true. I mean, it's true.

Emily Mortimer

#73. If new ideas are the lifeblood of any thriving organisation-and, trust me, they are-managers must learn to revere, not merely tolerate, the people who come up with those ideas.

Mark McCormack

#74. Managers will tell people what to do, whereas leaders will inspire them to do it, and there are a few things that go into the ability to inspire.

Jeff Weiner

#75. Avoid companies that are cavalier about issuing new options to managers

Aswath Damodaran

#76. [Facebook and Twitter] aren't the real problems in the office. The real problems are what I like to call the M&Ms, the Managers and the Meetings.

Jason Fried

#77. Our belief in salvation through the market is very much in the Utopian tradition. The economists and managers are the servants of God. Like the medieval scholastics, their only job is to uncover the divine plan. They could never create or stop it. At most they might aspire to small alterations.

John Ralston Saul

#78. I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that's cliche, I don't know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.

Aaron Levie

#79. Women occupy, in great masses, the 'household tasks' of industry. They are nurses but not doctors, secretaries but not executives, researchers but not writers, workers but not managers, bookkeepers but not promoters.

Vivian Gornick

#80. All resources are not obvious; great managers find and develop available talent.

Zig Ziglar

#81. Inside any important philanthropy meeting, you witness heads of state meeting with investment managers and corporate leaders. All are searching for answers with their right hand to problems that others in the room have created with their left.

Peter Buffett

#82. The recruiters and hiring managers of today are becoming more and more like politicians when asked difficult and uncomfortable questions. If they reply at all, they will not directly answer the job seekers' questions.

Paul Babicki

#83. Legg Mason's structure is misunderstood by the market. Legg Mason has an affiliate model. They own 100% of their affiliates, which are investment managers such as Permal, Western Asset Management, and Royce.

Nelson Peltz

#84. To this point it probably looks like I am setting this up as a slam-dunk case for ambulating while working, and getting ready to lambaste treadmill-resistant managers as insensitive and tragically shortsighted knuckle draggers. Well, they are.

Neal Stephenson

#85. Producing is a thankless task akin to hotel management. Unfortunately, there are not too many good hotel managers.

David Hemmings

#86. Managers' responsibility is to ensure that people deliver the expected results, which are the company's strategy. The company's strategy, in turn, determines its competitive advantage. So, if a manager does a poor job of motivating employees' productivity, the enterprise is a weak competitor.

Anna Stevens

#87. Mutual fund managers are trapped in this rather deadly vicious circle: the more successful they are, the more money flows into their mutual fund. Then, it is more difficult for them to beat the market averages or even to match their own past performance.

Ron Chernow

#88. Prosperity can't be just for CEOs and hedge fund managers. Democracy can't be just for billionaires and corporations. Prosperity and democracy are part of your basic bargain, too.

Hillary Clinton

#89. That whole thing about, 'Hey, ex-catchers are the best managers.' Listen, pitching coaches have some brains, too. Sometimes they're not all there, but sometimes they are.

Don Cooper

#90. Similarly, when women offer suggestions for improvement, managers judge them as less loyal than men and are less likely to implement their proposals. Especially

Adam M. Grant

#91. You can teach all sorts of things that improve the practice of management with people who are managers. What you cannot do is teach management to somebody who is not a manager, the way you cannot teach surgery to somebody whose not a surgeon.

Henry Mintzberg

#92. Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.

Edsger Dijkstra

#93. As for the employees, the payment in stock options revives, somewhat ironically, the old anarchist ideology of self-management of the company, as they are co-owners, co-producers, and co-managers of the firm.

Manuel Castells

#94. The best, most successful managers in the modern era are those who can keep a player happy even if he is not in the team. Given the size of the squads and the use of rotation nowadays, that's tougher than it's ever been.

Gary Lineker

#95. All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.

Ted Williams

#96. Land surveyors can spend as much time reading legislation, bylaws, and engineering documents as we spend in front of an instrument in the field or calculating coordinates for a subdivision. We are mathematicians, historians, project managers, advocates, engineers, and even chainsaw operators!

Mark Mason

#97. People work harder, longer, and more creatively if they are motivated by the intrinsic pleasure of their work. Managers must do everything they can to make the value of jobs obvious and the joy in them accessible.

Robert Watson

#98. Good people managers are likely to listen more than they speak. Perhaps that's why we were given two ears and only one mouth.

Mary Kay Ash

#99. Sometimes institutional progress gets thrown into reverse, often when the programmes are attacked by the financial managers, occasionally through lack of foresight and planning and sometimes through what I call 'institutional opportunists'.

Gordon M. Kerkham

#100. It is an unquestioned assumption that managers should have and set targets and then create control systems - incentives, performance appraisals, budget reporting and computers to keep track of them all - to ensure the targets are met. In Toyota, these practices simply do not exist. To

John Seddon