Quotes About Bad Managers

#1. We call it the 'Rule of Crappy People'. Bad managers hire very, very bad employees, because they're threatened by anybody who is anywhere near as good as they are.

Marc Andreessen

#2. This is one bar you should take home.

Eugene Ormandy

#3. All the research shows that investing in women is a good investment

Cherie Blair

#4. Bad sales managers push two buttons: 'more' and 'panic.' Great sales managers have one more button to push: the 'how'.

Chris Lytle

#5. When you've been in the game as long as I have, you know the managers you've played for, the good ones and the bad ones. Even the good ones get fired.

Joe Torre

#6. I may have to shop with them. But on Sunday I don't want to have to worship with them. I want to be able to just be myself and let my hair down. It's also, of course, as we know, the seat of political organization and the affirming of your blackness and so on.

Michael Emerson

#7. I'm not a defender of old or new football managers. I believe in good ones and bad ones, those that achieve success and those that don't.

Jose Mourinho

#8. We only want to link up with people whom we like, admire, and trust ... We do not wish to join with managers who lack admirable qualities, no matter how attractive the prospects of their business. We've never succeeded in making a good deal with a bad person.

Warren Buffett

#9. Convincing a leader of the value of front-line ideas alone is rarely enough for that person to overcome years of entrenched bad habits and to change his management style.

Dean M. Schroeder

#10. I can open up any can of worms and get people upset.

Andy Kindler

#11. Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them ...

Thomas A. Edison

#12. But no one could control Mark Littleberry; the man was fundamentally uncontrollable.

Richard Preston

#13. Managers tend to pick a strategy that is the least likely to fail, rather then to pick a strategy that is most efficient," Said Palmer. " The pain of looking bad is worse than the gain of making the best move.

Michael Lewis

#14. You wouldn't find a Joni Mitchell on 'X Factor;' that's not the place. 'X Factor' is a specific thing for people that want to go through that process - it's a factory, you know, and it's owned and stitched-up by puppet masters.

Annie Lennox

#15. [Good managers] know that people have 'good' sides and 'bad' sides and that the secret of good management is in magnifying the former and toning down the latter.

Ha-Joon Chang

#16. Bad ballplayers make good managers, not the other way around. All I can do is help them be as good as they are.

Earl Weaver