Quotes About Managing Yourself

#1. If you look to lead, invest at least 40% of your time managing yourself - your ethics, character, principles, purpose, motivation, and conduct. Invest at least 30% managing those with authority over you, and 15% managing your peers.

Dee Hock

#2. time itself cannot be managed, but you can save hours every single day by simply managing yourself.

Vincent Santiago

#3. Managing your time really means managing yourself. If your time is out of control, it means you are out of control.

Douglas Merrill

#4. What sense did the world make? Where was God, the Bloody Fool? Did He have no notion of fair and unfair? Couldn't He read a simple balance sheet? He would have been sacked long ago if He were managing a corporation, the things he allowed to happen ...

Rohinton Mistry

#5. Self-managing is Job One. Have a vision and a mission. Surround yourself with talented people. Rely on effective coaching, not managing of employees.

Tom Gegax

#6. I'm not going to manage again. I'm going to work for a team someday. But it won't be managing.

Tony La Russa

#7. I'm from Israel, so America has no limits. I started a record label, and then I started managing other artists, like Liza Minelli.

Gene Simmons

#8. Managing life from our mental control towers, we have separated ourselves from our bodies and hearts.

Tara Brach

#9. manage the community outside of the CIA. An official observed, "The CIA director managed the CIA; it was the best job in the world. Managing the IC meant going out to the NRO and sitting through a three-hour meeting about satellite specifications. So it just was not done well."3

Michael Allen

#10. Discipline allows you to trade effectively. You can take your ego out of it. You can go wrong 60, 70% of the time and still make a lot of money. If you ignore the discipline of managing risk, you have to be right 80% of the time or more, and I don't know anyone who's that good.

Larry Rosenberg

#11. When I feel angry, I want to say something mean, or yell, or hit. But feeling like I want to is not the same as doing it. Feeling can't hurt anyone or get me into trouble, but doing can. (Bunny from picture book)

Cornelia Maude Spelman

#12. A big part of managing a golf course is managing your swing on the course. A lot of guys can go out and hit a golf ball, but they have no idea how to manage what they do with the ball. I've won as many golf tournaments hitting the ball badly as I have hitting the ball well.

Jack Nicklaus

#13. Kids need their minds blown every now and then. It'll keep them from thinking that managing a McDonald's is the most they can hope for.

Richard Kadrey

#14. Thus, Marlowe posed the silent question: could aspiring Icarus be happy with a toilsome life on land managing a plough with plodding oxen having once tasted the weightless bliss of flight?

E.A. Bucchianeri

#15. Becoming wealthy is not a matter of how much you earn, who your parents are, or what you do.. it is a matter of managing your money properly.

Noel Whittaker

#16. 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

#17. Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.

Bob Woodward

#18. Having gone through editing process, I can see that in actor's faces there's point where they're not managing their performance and that's, I think, the best place to be. You've done the homework, you've learned the lines, at that point you just sort of let it out.

Ralph Fiennes

#19. I thought I was managing my expectations, but on hearing the news I discovered new and unfamiliar vocal tones. Perhaps I should do another musical.

Colin Firth

#20. Finance is the art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager

Ambrose Bierce

#21. Try managing a junkie - especially if you've never been one yourself.

Malcolm McLaren

#22. If you wish to succeed in managing and controlling others - learn to manage and control yourself.

William J.H. Boetcker

#23. Managing excuses means not excusing yourself from the responsibility you need to take with your thought, words, and actions.

Lorii Myers

#24. Managing your emotions doesn't mean you don't express yourself; it means you stop short of hurting others and sabotaging yourself.

Sue Fitzmaurice

#25. If you want to manage somebody, manage yourself. Do that well and you'll be ready to stop managing. And start leading.

Mark Gonzales

#26. Don't allow old traditions to become permanent mental scripts for managing your life in the present. Reason: you will not be able to transform yourself to think differently and be better as you grow with age and maturity.

Darren L Johnson

#27. I figured managing people was obvious - I'd tell someone what they needed to do and they'd do what I wanted. It turns out that's not the case. It was frustrating at first.

Jon Oringer

#28. Cooperation isn't the absence of conflict but a means of managing conflict.

Deborah Tannen

#29. The companies that do the best job on managing a user's privacy will be the companies that ultimately are the most successful.

Fred Wilson

#30. Even in the best times, managing science has been compared to herding cats; it is not done well, but one is surprised to find it done at all.

Gerald Holton

#31. I work hard, and managing an inventory-based business can be extremely stressful. The upside is that, as long as I get my job done, I can take time off pretty much any time I want.

Anne Taintor

#32. Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don't put them both together by claiming you 'don't have the time'.

Bo Bennett

#33. My parents taught me many of the things that people need in life to feel confident: practical things, such as managing finances, mucking out the goat barn, cleaning a house, doing repairs, mending a broken roof or a toilet.

Bryce Dallas Howard

#34. Not that managing in the American League is easy, but this is certainly different. I'll have to have somebody poke me in the rear end when I have a pitcher that's going to hit.

Joe Torre

#35. Courage is managing fear to accomplish what you want to accomplish. And it's a great demonstration of love. It's really what love is. It's finding areas in which other people are more important than you.

Rudy Giuliani

#36. I used to work for an SOE. The wealth I created didn't belong to me. In other words, I was only managing money for the country and the people.

Wang Shi

#37. I'm gradually managing to cram my mind more and more full of things. I've got this beautiful mind and it's going to die, and it'll all be gone. And then I say, not in my case. Every idea I've ever had I've written down, and it's all there on paper. And I won't be gone; it'll be there.

Isaac Asimov

#38. My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you're not strictly bound to a linear narrative.

Tommy Lee Jones

#39. The writers keep managing to turn the show in on itself, coming up with something that's well thought-out and miraculous.

Kiefer Sutherland

#40. Successful charitable fund-raising has much in common with managing a business: It requires leadership, persistence, and creativity.

David Rockefeller

#41. That is why the discipline of managing mental models - surfacing, testing, and improving our internal pictures of how the world works - promises to be a major breakthrough for building learning organizations.

Peter M. Senge

#42. Stopping a piece of work just because it's hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea. Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when if feels like all you're managing is to shovel sh*t from a sitting position.

Stephen King

#43. We all have our ways of handling fear and managing trying; jumping in or climbing down, a direct approach or a delay, joyful or miserable, a spirit of adventure, or God help me, get this thing over with.

Kristin Armstrong

#44. How are you managing to keep everyone from aging?" Celia asks after a while.
"Very carefully," Marco answers.

Erin Morgenstern

#45. I've been a software engineer, a novelist, a journalist, and a manager - and managing developers is easily the trickiest thing I've ever done.

Jon Evans

#46. I'm not really managing the work-life balance, I'm just accepting that the work increases and the ordinary life has to decrease when you're the prime minister.

Tony Abbott

#47. If we're going to make disciples and move out in mission, we need to go from managing boundaries to integrating family and mission into one life, a cohesive framework and fabric that empowers a culture of discipleship and mission, not just occasional events and periodic programs.

Mike Breen

#48. I'm running for controller to ensure our government reflects the values of the people of California and increases prosperity by managing our finances smartly, efficiently and effectively.

John Perez

#49. Managing is not running, hitting, or stealing. Managing is getting your players to put out one hundred percent year after year.

Sparky Anderson

#50. 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