Top 100 Quotes About Managers
#1. Some hedge fund managers have made big bucks trading oil futures - George Soros is one.
Gary Weiss
#2. Some of the greatest advances happen when people are bold enough to speak their truth and listen to others speak theirs.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#3. 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
#4. Man is born to dream, to be enlightened, to connect and to be fulfilled. Managers are too.
Stan Slap
#5. 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
#6. Managers help people see themselves as they are; Leaders help people to see themselves better than they are.
Jim Rohn
#7. What is the cost of replacing and bringing up to speed one of your managers, supervisors, or front-line employees who left because they were frustrated with your organization's leadership?
Liz Weber
#8. Sales management is the most critical - and underappreciated - role in the sales force. Companies struggle to find something powerful to train sales managers on.
Jason Jordan
#9. Leaders are passionate about the Purpose, while Managers need to be passionate about the Results!
Amit Chatterjee
#10. There is no evidence that changing your managers repeatedly leads to success, but there is evidence at Manchester United, I was managing there for 26 years I won 38 trophies.
Alex Ferguson
#11. 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
#12. If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to rotate twenty times as fast, everyone else would get twice as much done since all the managers would fly off.
Norman Ralph Augustine
#13. I never dreamed I'd be a spokesman for anything. But Pac Bell just asked me. The money was OK; the scripts were fun because I had to do in 30 seconds what it takes a whole feature to do and because the dysfunctional family of agents, managers and lawyers who represent me said it was cool.
Chris Eigeman
#15. Learning is about seeing things froma a different perspective. My role is to help people improve their vision
Bob Selden
#16. As managers rise up the hierarchy, a host of situational forces come to bear on them which can easily undermine their respect for the people on the front lines, and hence cause them to disregard the value in front-line ideas.
Dean M. Schroeder
#17. It's no surprise that optimistic athletes, managers and teams do better. What's interesting is where they do better. It's in coming back from defeat and acting in the clutch.
Martin Seligman
#18. There's something wrong when hedge fund managers pay lower tax rates than nurses or the truckers
Lindsey Graham
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. Bury My Heart is a life-altering approach to turning managers into unconditionally committed leaders.
Stan Slap
#22. Some of the most successful people managers are also the best listeners.
Mary Kay Ash
#23. Managers are people who know what they want.
Leaders are people who get what they want.
Bogdan Vaida
#24. People respond well to managers who stop being bosses and start being leaders. They go the extra mile if they genuinely believe that your success is their success and vice versa.
Tim Fargo
#25. I wouldn't say that we're proactively out there hunting down brands to try to fulfill some piece of a larger battle plan or something. If they have things they want to get to us, we're somewhat easily accessible through our managers and record companies.
Lars Ulrich
#26. I had a momentary vision of Brooklands' entire middle class, its prosperous lawyers, doctors and senior managers, being confined to their own ghetto, with nothing to do all day except groom their ponies and swing their croquet mallets.
J.G. Ballard
#27. Bad sales managers push two buttons: 'more' and 'panic.' Great sales managers have one more button to push: the 'how'.
Chris Lytle
#28. Research has found that in most companies managers who get promoted rapidly spend most of their time networking and politicking, while their more effective colleagues spent their time building their units and developing their people.
Alan G. Robinson
#29. Most companies spend all their time looking for another management concept and very little time following up the one they have just taught their managers.
Ken Blanchard
#30. 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
#31. Obviously it's very hard to leave a club that you've supported all your life. But the reason that I've come to Birmingham is that I think Steve Bruce is one of the best young managers in the country and that Birmingham as a club is a sleeping giant
David Dunn
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. Florentyna sent a directive to all managers in the Group that the finest suite in each hotel was no longer to be the Presidential Suite but was to be renamed the George Novak Suite.
Jeffrey Archer
#37. I'm happy that I have agents and managers that believe in me.
Tricia Helfer
#38. The world spins despite me, not because of me, he muttered. Last week, one of his coworkers died after twenty-five years of service. There was an email and eulogy sent by one of the managers - and then a mad scramble by everyone else to loot his office supplies.
Wesley Chu
#39. The free market is at its best when everybody works in a fish bowl and tells you their point of view ... The hedge funds and portfolio managers have a right to do this ... We've muted the analysts and their presence in the system.
Mario Gabelli
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. Some managers hire people they're excited to work with. I prefer to hire people I'm excited to dominate.
Mykle Hansen
#43. 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
#44. It is often idle to attempt to oppose ignorance and absurdity by such feeble instruments as truth and reason, and the wisest managers of mankind have generally been most successful when their plan has been to counteract one folly by means of the influence of another.
Jacob Abbot
#45. Victims blame, managers maintain, and leaders change.
Orrin Woodward
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. When I got out of high school I hit the road. I lived like a gypsy. Those were the best times of my life. I was living from club to club not knowing where my next meal was coming from. No credit cards, no apartment, no bills, no managers, just on the road with a truck and five guys.
Rex Smith
#49. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
Jack Welch
#50. My manager says we've been working with the FDA on this.
Carlos Gonzalez
#51. When John (Giles) was manager of Ireland, much as he loved me, he still dropped me.
Eamon
#52. 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
#53. You need editors, not brand managers,who will push the envelope to make [a brand media property] go forward.
Seth Godin
#54. 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
#55. senior managers' goal here should be to manage their portfolio of businesses to wisely balance between profitable growth and cash flow at a given point in time.
W.Chan Kim
#56. He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays
cynical but hopeful.
Rose Macaulay
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. If that makes your lawyers or managers happy, well, good for them. You still have a lot to worry about.
Tom Christiansen
#60. What you've got to realise is that footballers, and me in particular, have seen everything in the changing room. Everything. I've seen the manager kicking off with the players, the players kicking off with him, players fighting each other, managers fighting, everything.
Ryan Giggs
#61. Sir Alex Ferguson is one of the best managers in football history.
Tim Howard
#62. 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
#63. Business exists to supply goods and services to customers and economic surplus to society, rather than to supply jobs to workers and managers or even dividends to shareholders.
Peter Drucker
#64. Companies die because their managers focus on the economic activity of producing goods and services, and they forget that their organizations' true nature is that of a community of humans.
Arie De Geus
#65. As a manager your job is not to teach people talent. Your job is to help them earn the accolade "talented" by matching their talent to the role. To do this well, like all great managers, you have to pay close attention to the subtle but significant differences between roles.
Marcus Buckingham
#66. Effective managers proactively control their tasks and the expectations of their major stakeholders, which allows them to meet strategic goals rather than fight fires.
Sumantra Ghoshal
#67. It's difficult working with very rich actors, because inevitably they become a little spoilt, and the managers and agents tend to control things more than is healthy.
Mike Figgis
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. Sir Alex, one of the best managers of all time. After 26 years of success in the game, we all owe him a tribute.
Vincent Kompany
#72. Simply put, this is one insight we heard echoed by tens of thousands of great managers:
People don't change that much.
Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out.
Try to draw out what was left in.
That is hard enough.
Marcus Buckingham
#73. 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
#74. Politicians or pundits can distort or cherry-pick climate science any way they want to try and gain temporary influence with the public. But any serious industrialist who's facing 'climate exposure' - as it's now called by money managers - cannot afford to engage in that sort of self-delusion.
Clive Thompson
#75. These managers all know their onions and cut their cloth accordingly.
Mark Lawrenson
#76. We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise.
Robert Wyatt
#77. If I Had To Sum Up In One Word The Qualities That Make Up A Good Manager, I'd Say Decisiveness.
Lee Iacocca
#78. I know a lot of people on the field - players, coaches, managers - are glad that I'm gone.
Frank Robinson
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. What I've witnessed, managers are divisive and allow musicians to become clouded, irresponsible, and unaware of the world around them.
Jacob Bannon
#82. All artists have runners, people that tell them what to do, business managers, lawyers, these - if they get the right ones, they're lucky, and if they get the wrong ones, they're unlucky.
Berry Gordy
#83. Theory is a dirty word in some managerial quarters. That is rather curious, because all of us, managers especially, can no more get along without theories than libraries can get along without catalogs and for the same reason: theories help us make sense of incoming information.
Henry Mintzberg
#84. I had come to Boyne City because I have always been drawn to nature's secrets more than to, say Hollywood's secrets or the secrets of Wall Street hedge-fund managers. Nature is real. It exists beyond our ability to create it or even mediate it.
Langdon Cook
#85. I always thought that it's important to have other things, not just work, and I often even suggested my managers take some time off and come back fresh and ready to fight again.
Ernesto Bertarelli
#86. Empowerment is what managers do to people. Engagement is what managers do with people.
Henry Mintzberg
#87. I don't envisage I will be captain again, but for two England managers, Steve McClaren and Fabio Capello, I was their first choice and I'm proud of that.
John Terry
#89. 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
#90. Overworked managers are doing things they shouldn't be doing.
Tom DeMarco
#91. Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
Bela Lugosi
#92. Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
Tom Peters
#93. Observing many companies in action, I am unable to point to a single instance in which stunning results were gotten without the active and personal leadership of the upper managers.
Joseph M. Juran
#94. 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
#95. You, your employer and your plan's investment managers fail to follow even the most basic rules of investing. You overtrade, chase performance, do not think long term. All of you - All Of You - have done a horrible job managing your retirement plans.
Barry Ritholtz
#96. The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
Warren G. Bennis
#97. When managers have got decisions to make, whether it benefits me or not, I have to be man enough to take it.
Joe Hart
#98. I don't take investment advice from wealth managers. I have grown several businesses from scratch and amassed many millions from my publishing empire - why would I take advice from someone who has never experienced that?
Felix Dennis
#99. We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.
Larry Page
#100. 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
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