Top 100 Quotes About A Manager
#1. 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
#3. If a manager asks an academic consultant what to do and that consultant answers, then the consultant should be fired. No academic has the experience to know the context of a managerial problem well enough to give specific advice about a specific situation.
James G. March
#4. The fact is: You are not a manager of circumstance, you're the architect of your life's experience.
Tony Robbins
#5. Being a manager is about getting into the minds of the people you represent.
Sandy Gallin
#6. People come to see the players. Nobody ever bought a ticket to see a manager.
Larry Goetz
#7. What I would say about Barney Eastwood is that when our relationship worked, it worked extremely well. He had a lot of strengths as a promoter and a manager.
Barry McGuigan
#8. 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
#9. The only thing I believe is this: A player does not have to like a manager and he does not have to respect a manager. All he has to do is obey the rules.
Sparky Anderson
#10. I believe every person has the ability to achieve something important, and with that in mind I regard everyone as special. A manager should feel this way about people, but it's an attitude that can't be faked. You've got to be honestly convinced that every human being is important.
Mary Kay Ash
#11. I would love to get back to the big leagues as a coach, possibly a manager. I would love that opportunity.
Gary Carter
#12. MICHAEL: Maybe just this: A manager has got to remember that he is on stage every day. His people are watching him. Everything he does, everything he says, and the way he says it, sends off clues to his employees. These clues affect performance. So never forget you are on that stage.
Marcus Buckingham
#13. There is a leader in every manager, there is not a manager in every leader.
Gert Van Mol
#14. My career has been wacky and not at all normal. I've never had a manager, nobody gets jobs for me. I wind up working with artists that I meet.
Nile Rodgers
#15. If you want to know how a manager is performing ask to see their data, really want to know ... ask those that report to them.
Mark W. Boyer
#16. I got started acting by going to auditions that my mom found in the entertainment section of our local news paper. Then, I got a manager and started going out on more auditions.
Tyler James Williams
#17. If you seriously aspire to be a manager in the big leagues, there is a baseball 'book' that one must learn. Alongside that book, you must practice Spanish. Of 25 players on each roster, sometimes there are between eight and 15 players who speak Spanish.
Tony La Russa
#18. More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
Walt Alston
#19. to linger in the factory after clocking-off time (though now a manager, simon had never ceased to think in the terms of his apprenticeship) would constitute a fatal admission that your home life was lacking or, worse, that you were trying to brownnose senior management
J.K. Rowling
#20. I have never seen myself as a promoter. I always evaluate myself as a manager.
Dilip Shanghvi
#21. An investor doesn't have a prayer of picking a manager that can deliver true alpha.
Eugene Fama
#22. I don't have interns. I don't have a manager. I don't have assistants. I don't have a secretary. I can't figure out Outlook Express. I'm the worst person in the world answering e-mails, and my phone is probably the oldest, most battered phone you can find. So I just talk to people.
Bruce Dickinson
#23. A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here's where we are going to go, here's why we need to go there, and here's how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor.
Mike Huckabee
#24. My father taught me how to understand and be sensitive to others, which is probably the most critical aspect of leadership. Without it you are only a manager.
David Morehouse
#25. If I told my wife I was going to become a manager she'd say 'sign this then. Don't worry it's only a divorce. Au revoir'.
David Ginola
#27. Practicing discipline involves continually working to find space in our patterns, to find the gaps in the images we hold about ourselves. It also means finding the gaps in our ideas about others, releasing images that we hold about a manager, a coworker, a friend, or a partner.
Tsoknyi Rinpoche
#28. A manager uses a relief pitcher like a six shooter, he fires until it's empty then takes the gun and throws it at the villain.
Dan Quisenberry
#29. When a manager openly expresses his faith in an employee's skill, he doesn't just improve mood and motivation; he actually improves their likelihood of succeeding.
Shawn Achor
#30. A leader takes things personally. A manager sees things as "just business".
Jim Korkis
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.
Henry Ward Beecher
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. A manager sets objectives - A manager organizes - A manager motivates and communicates - A manager, by establishing yardsticks, measures - A manager develops people .
Peter Drucker
#38. You can win in multiple ways - A manager
should never restrict himself when it comes to exploring possibilities.
Abhishek Ratna
#40. There are only two things a manager needs to know: When to change pitchers and how to get along with your players.
Bucky Harris
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. A manager's ability to turn meetings into a thinking environment is probably an organization's greatest asset.
Nancy Kline
#44. Training is, quite simply, one of the highest-leverage activities a manager can perform.
Ben Horowitz
#45. A manager of people needs to understand that all people are different. This is not ranking people. He needs to understand that the performance of anyone is governed largely by the system that he works in, the responsibility of management.
W. Edwards Deming
#46. The primary skill of a manager consists of knowing how to make assignments and picking the right people to carry out those assignments
Lee Iacocca
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. When a manager asks for hard data, that's usually just his way of saying no.
Ward Cunningham
#51. A manager has his cards dealt to him and he must play them.
Miller Huggins
#52. I like to make everything my friends are involved in a little better. I should have just become a manager.
Drea De Matteo
#53. 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
#54. If a manager can't control his costs, fire them.
Kevin O'Leary
#55. There are two schools of thought. A manager would tell you that must make them realize you're a dedicated actor and I took a totally different route than that. I never ever took myself seriously.
George Hamilton
#56. Most of the pressure comes from myself, not from others. I don't need a manager or a pundit to put pressure on me. I do all that myself before others do it.
Ruud Van Nistelrooy
#57. I don't think a manager should be judged by whether he wins the pennant, but by whether he gets the most out of the twenty-five men he's been given.
Chuck Tanner
#58. If you are a manager, it's your responsibility to keep the work part lively and full; it's not a key component of your job to ensure that employees consistently have a forty-hour workweek.
Eric Schmidt
#59. Even though my dad was a manager in the minor leagues, I still traveled around with him and saw it from the field out. Now, as an owner, you're kind of looking from the whole baseball activity from outside in, from a fan's perspective.
Cal Ripken Jr.
#60. It's my opinion that a manager must have the right to manage and that clubs should not impose upon any manager any player that he does not want. I have been left with no choice other than to leave.
Kevin Keegan
#61. I've decided I don't want to be a manager. Every time you try to be responsive to your employees, they say you're being reactive and not proactive. And when you try to be proactive, they accuse you of being capricious and arbitrary. So I don't wanna be a manager ...
Larry Wall
#62. As a manager, you always have a gun to your head. It's a question of whether there is a bullet in the barrel.
Kevin Keegan
#63. A manager doesn't hear the cheers.
Alvin Dark
#64. I believe one of the best things about managing people is that we can influence lives in a positive way. That's basically what a manager is about. When I can do that, I am very happy.
Arsene Wenger
#65. A manager can't act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
Ben Horowitz
#66. I was modeling with an agency in New York and a manager with the agency introduced himself to me one day and he said he had auditions for someone my age. He asked if I would be interested in doing some.
Alexis Bledel
#67. When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#68. A manager's output = the output of his organization + the output of the neighboring organizations under his influence.
Andrew S. Grove
#69. The prime occupational hazard of a manager is superficiality.
Henry Mintzberg
#70. A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.
Kenneth Adelman
#71. I had twelve years as a Tottenham player under Bill Nicholson and could not have wished to have played for a better manager. I can still hear his wise words in my head when I am out on the training ground as a manager myself.
Joe Kinnear
#72. Managing can be more discouraging than playing, especially when you're losing because when you're a player, there are at least individual goals you can shoot for. When you're a manager all the worries of the team become your worries.
Al Lopez
#73. A manager's most important work is helping the people doing the work. Give them a goal and let them work. Remove any impediments that get in their way. Do anything that make them more effective or productive. Then the organization can capitalize on the fruits of their work.
Ken Schwaber
#74. [With] closet indexing ... you're paying a manager a fortune and he has 85% of his assets invested parallel to the indexes. If you have such a system, you're being played for a sucker.
Charlie Munger
#75. I am not that good a manager for me to be comfortable borrowing someone else's money.
Jack Dangermond
#76. I might be too emotional to be a manager. You love your players, don't you? And I'm not sure I could leave them out. I know how it feels.
Alan Smith
#77. A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
Peter F. Drucker
#78. Holding your team accountable to do the jobs they're being paid to do is not being mean; it's being a manager, and that's your job.
Liz Weber
#79. Jay-Z ain't a manager; he owns a management company. He been through this; he been through the game for a long time, so he knows tactics in taking artists in certain directions we need to go in.
Meek Mill
#80. All of those things had been talked about, suggested, rumored, as a manager and as a member of the Knicks organization, I couldn't allow myself to think that way or believe that.
Isaiah Thomas
#81. Do not define yourself by what you do. A manager? No, you are not a manager but you work as a manager. A maid? No, you are not a maid but you work as a maid. An accountant? No but you only work now as an accountant
Ikechukwu Joseph
#82. If I look myself as a manager, I have lot more to learn.
Dilip Shanghvi
#83. You're a hero one day, you're a villain another day. They say that's football. When a manager does well, they're applauded, when they don't do well, they get the sack. Football is a tough world. Those who watch enjoy it - for everybody else, there are a lot of challenges.
Vincent Tan
#84. The problem is, we elected a manager and we need a leader. Let's face it: Bush is just dim.
George Clooney
#85. 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
#86. Authentic stardom ... is a gift which, if it is to have any permanent significance, must be bestowed by a public rather than a manager.
Katharine Cornell
#87. I was through as a manager. I did become involved late in the 1968 campaign at the national scene at the last minute. But I was through as a manager, and I've stayed through, incidentally.
Lew Wasserman
#88. A manager must appreciate and understand the importance of every resource he has. There is a specific purpose for every resource. It is the duty of the manager to utilise the resources to the fullest in the most appropriate manner.
Abhishek Ratna
#89. Basically, a manager is a father figure to 20 or 25 blokes. It's about trying to get the best out of them and creating team spirit.
Alan Shearer
#90. I followed an Italian manager and it cannot be easy when you follow a manager who thinks very differently.
Jose Mourinho
#91. It's the job of a manager not to light the fire of motivation, but to create an environment to let each person's personal spark of motivation blaze.
Frederick Herzberg
#92. For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.
Ken Blanchard
#93. We, as individuals, must be responsible for our careers with the goal of reaching our highest potential. The job of a manager is to tap into that energy that's already there.
Srikumar Rao
#94. The Porto players were with me for two and a half years, they believed in me, in my methods, in the way we do it. The next day I go and a manager arrives who works completely differently.
Jose Mourinho
#95. 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
#96. My dad takes care of me as a manager and as a dad. That's his job, you know, to take care of me. He has my best interests at heart.
Jessica Simpson
#98. Have I done more business-related things to help my career grow? Yeah. I took the business end more seriously, hooked up with a manager, got some help, because at a certain point, you get frustrated when you go do auditions, and people say you did a great job, and then you don't get he part.
Gary Sinise
#99. I could never be a manager. All I have is natural ability.
Mickey Mantle
#100. I always liked Casey Stengel as a manager because he seemed to have a grasp of so many things.
Walter Alston
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