Quotes About Good Managers

#1. I love the ability to work with very good managers, and to provide the right incentives for them, and truly become a partner with that management, and make that management take a long view.

Henry Kravis

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

Tom Hicks

#3. 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

#4. Slaves are not allowed to say no. Laborers may be hesitant to say no. But
professionals are expected to say no. Indeed, good managers crave someone who
has the guts to say no. It's the only way you can really get anything done.

Robert C. Martin

#5. [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

#6. This is one of the innovator's dilemmas: Blindly following the maxim that good managers should keep close to their customers can sometimes be a fatal mistake.

Clayton Christensen

#7. Good managers have a bias for action.

Tom Peters

#8. The most useful and honorable science and occupation for a woman is the science of housekeeping. I know some that are miserly, very few that are good managers.

Michel De Montaigne

#9. There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don't usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp.

Mark Zuckerberg

#10. On the playing side, a lot of guys I played under were pretty good managers.

Don Mattingly

#11. I have really good managers and agents who are very selective in what they send me.

Michael Pena

#12. To succeed consistently, good managers need to be skilled not just in choosing, training, and motivating the right people for the right job, but in choosing, building, and preparing the right organization for the job as well.

Clayton M Christensen

#13. good managers - don't dictate from on high. They reach out, they listen, they wrangle, coax, and cajole.

Ed Catmull

#14. Good managers succeed because of, not in spite of, their teams and raise their game by raising the game of the whole team, not by distancing themselves from them in pointing out their errors.

Tim Phillips

#15. Christians should be good managers and stewards of God's riches

Sunday Adelaja

#16. 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

#17. MF Global used to be known as Man Financial, and it had a reasonably good reputation. It did a humdrum business placing commodities trades for fund managers as well as farmers, grain dealers and others whose livelihoods depend on the vagaries of commodity prices.

Gary Weiss

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. One of my favorite operations managers often reminds people to "assume positive intent" - that is, when conflict arises between people or groups, assume that all parties are motivated by the same desire to do good by the company.

Anonymous

#21. True love, the good, the beautiful, one-and-only kind, the kind between loving friends and family and partners who are mostly just trying hard to do their best, it managers to overlook some pieces of its story.

Deb Caletti

#22. 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

#23. Some of the most flowery praise you hear on the subject of teams is only hypocrisy. Managers learn to talk a good game about teams even when they're secretly threatened by the whole concept.

Tom DeMarco

#24. I'm very content to have great management and a great label. But for me, success started when my managers came to me and told me, 'Go ahead and quit your job.' I told them, 'As long as I don't have to wash dishes anymore, I'm good.'

Leon Bridges

#25. Is puppy love the reason so many Americans are blind to the incompetence and waste of Republicans - who at a minimum are supposed to be good money managers - running Iraq reconstruction?

Margaret Carlson

#26. Clearly, it wasn't enough for managers to have good ideas - they had to be able to engender support for those ideas among the people who'd be charged with employing them.

Ed Catmull

#27. Everyone is a business person. You must be in the business of managing your time. Managing your time means managing your life. Good time managers are good life managers, and vice versa.

Archibald Marwizi

#28. To make flexibility work, it is not only necessary to change our attitude about who is a good worker and who is not, but we have to train managers at all levels to recognize the difference between the number of hours worked and the quality of work produced.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#29. My agents and my managers are very good at whittling things down to the things they think I would be good at and that I'd respond well to, and that includes theater, TV and film. Whatever it is, if the material is right for me, then I'll go for it.

Dominic Sherwood

#30. Managers who are skilled communicators may also be good at covering up real problems.

Chris Argyris

#31. Top managers love people and they want to be loved - it turns out being loved is good for your career, especially if you are the boss.

Chade-Meng Tan

#32. To be a good boss, you must be transparent. Theres a correlation between worker happiness and workplace transparency. Leaders and managers who offer transparency will earn the respect and devotion of their team.

David Niu

#33. If we want people on the front lines of companies to be responsible for making good business decisions, they must have the same information that managers use to make good business decisions.

Ken Blanchard

#34. I'm not just trying to be a good game manager. I'm trying to be great.

Drew Brees

#35. 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

#36. I've never been good at the money thing. I have had a couple of really nice but inept managers, and a business accountant that ripped me off. But I cannot totally blame my money making lameness on them.

Jill Sobule

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. Sales managers need to be good leaders. How do they do it? Good leaders effectively communicate their goals and objectives while they focus on doing their job ProActively, and let their people focus on their job. If this is true, then the inverse must be true.

William Miller

#40. If that makes your lawyers or managers happy, well, good for them. You still have a lot to worry about.

Tom Christiansen

#41. If I Had To Sum Up In One Word The Qualities That Make Up A Good Manager, I'd Say Decisiveness.

Lee Iacocca

#42. I'm constantly amazed that owners and managers of all businesses don't train their people to call the person who pays by credit card by name. It definitely makes the customer feel good and will be a factor in bringing them back to your place of business.

Zig Ziglar

#43. Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form.

Jessica Savitch

#44. 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

#45. Sometimes when I'm directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that's okay with me.

Adam Rapp

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

Eric Ries

#47. Core competence, as it is used by many managers, is a dangerously inward-looking notion. Competitiveness is far more about doing what customers value than doing what you think you're good at.

Clayton Christensen

#48. I think that not relying too heavily on one bank and one bank manager is a good rule to learn.

Richard Branson

#49. 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

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

David Hemmings

#51. 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