Ron Manager Quotes

#1. The only way to make money as a manager is to win in one place, get fired and hired somewhere else.

Whitey Herzog

#2. I'd take Bieber to the woodshed and spank him. His manager Scooter Braun is scared sh-tless. I don't know what Bieber's problem is. His career is over in three years anyway.

Peter Mensch

#3. I was the best manager in Britain because I was never devious or cheated anyone. I'd break my wife's legs if I played against her, but I'd never cheat her.

Bill Shankly

#4. I left a couple of my foreigners out last week and they started talking in 'foreign'. I knew what they were saying: Blah, blah, blah, le b*** manager, f*** uselss b***!

Harry Redknapp

#5. I get a lot of fan mail addressed to Bilbo and sometimes Sir Bilbo - it's hardly ever addressed to Ian Holm, in fact. My business manager drafts the replies, and then I pop in to the office and sign them, 'Bilbo!'

Ian Holm

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

Ambrose Bierce

#7. As a manager you know when someone is below his or her usual performance. What is harder to know is whether people are giving everything they have to give. Asking whether people are giving their best gives them the opportunity to push themselves beyond their previous limits.

Liz Wiseman

#8. The programmer who refuses to keep exploring will surely stagnate, forget his joy, lose the will to program (and become a manager).

Marijn Haverbeke

#9. To be manager of the Yankees under the malevolent dictatorship of George Steinbrenner is like being married to Zsa Zsa Gabor - the union is short and sweet.

Robert Rubin

#10. I became a sales manager at Digital Equipment, promoted from within the sales team. My peers were less than excited that I had gotten the job, especially one of my male peers who said he just wasn't going to work for a woman.

Carol Bartz

#11. I didn't think it would be possible, but it appears Isiah Thomas is a worse general manager than coach ...

Mark Boyle

#12. There's nothing wrong with pitch counts. But not when it's spit out by a computer, and the computer does not look at an individual's mechanics. And you can't look at his genes. It should come from the individual and the pitching coach and the manager.

Tom Seaver

#13. I had 11 years of managerial experience and four years of coaching before I managed a big-league team. To me, it was important, because I learned a lot through trial and error. And it's tough to have to go through trial and error when you're a big-league manager.

Jim Leyland

#14. I would play in any number shirt for Newcastle United, but the No 9 at Newcastle is something very special and I've always wanted to wear it. I mentioned it to the manager, he mentioned it to Les and Les has been very kind and given it to me.

Alan Shearer

#15. At a football club, there's a holy trinity - the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don't come into it. They are only there to sign the checks.

Bill Shankly

#16. My manager said the next best inspiration to heartbreak is travel, and it's true.

Beth Orton

#17. I recommend doing some sort of acting class, something that can eventually get you in front of an agent or a manager, and practice is very important.

Bridgit Mendler

#18. The manager is to be blamed who distributes parts to his players which they are unable to act.

Franz Schubert

#19. One thing I've learned is that I'm not the owner of my talent; I'm the manager of it.

Madonna Ciccone

#20. An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.

George Bernard Shaw

#21. The reason I quit being a sales manager over twenty years now is because I hate elevator pitches. I want to write stories and show people what's in them when they read them, not tell them all about it ahead of time.

Kurt Busiek

#22. Give me a person who sincerely wants to commit themselves to being a salesperson, and put them on my team and I will give you a hero. That has always been my mindset as a sales manager, whenever I have been in that position. I believe in people, and I seek to encourage them to perform at their best.

Michael Delaware

#23. I have worked with a lot of different great people. One of the things my partner, my manager Judy Weinstein, instilled in [David] Morales and myself is that the quality goes in before the name goes home.

Frankie Knuckles

#24. You get an idea what a manager has to go through every day. His is at a very high level. He has situations he has to deal with and the expectations he has to deal with, the personalities he has to deal with. It's a lot.

Joe Girardi

#25. One moment and bright the next. When the manager, escorted by the pilgrims, all of them armed to the teeth, had gone to the house, this chap came on board. 'I say, I don't like this. These natives are in the bush,' I said. He assured me earnestly it was all right. 'They are simple

Joseph Conrad

#26. My manager says we've been working with the FDA on this.

Carlos Gonzalez

#27. There is a growing sense among Americans outside the Beltway that while President Obama may be a good talker, he is a lousy manager.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

#28. People leave their manager; they don't leave companies.

John Stumpf

#29. Freddy Demann (Shakira's Manager) is a man that knows the world of music. And I know that I am in good hands.

Shakira

#30. It's every manager's dream, I suppose, to build a team by coaching young players of 15 to 17. That's why I started a youth scheme.

Matt Busby

#31. As the late baseball manager Sparky Anderson put it: Losing hurts twice as bad as winning feels good.

L. Jon Wertheim

#32. It has been an honor and a privilege to have had the chance to come back to Liverpool Football Club as manager.

Kenny Dalglish

#33. One of the strong principles that I believe in is that you're always learning, whether you're a commissioner, a current general manager, a president or an owner, or somebody that's trying to become a general manger or a coach in the NFL.

Roger Goodell

#34. There are hundreds of Canadian communities that have given more thought to hiring their rink manager than they have to electing their member of Parliament.

Preston Manning

#35. When John (Giles) was manager of Ireland, much as he loved me, he still dropped me.

Eamon

#36. I'm a musician with a very unique mental state, I suppose. I'm agoraphobic. I'm scared to leave my house. I haven't been alone in, like, two years. I'm either with my boyfriend or my assistant, my manager or my tour manager. I won't go anywhere by myself; I'm too terrified.

Halsey

#37. Most corporations have human-resources processes that involve discussions with your manager, performance evaluations, calibrations for performance and potential succession planning.

Denise Morrison

#38. The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are.

Reggie Jackson

#39. Building an online community is not an event, it is an ongoing process.

Sharon Lina Pearce

#40. I'd love to be an artist always, but if no one wants me, I'd love to write songs for other people, be a manager, nurture new talent.

Adele

#41. A seagull manager is one who periodically flies into the area, makes a lot of noise, dumps on the people, maybe eats their lunch, and flies away.

James Hunter

#42. If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act.

Lee Iacocca

#43. Victims blame, managers maintain, and leaders change.

Orrin Woodward

#44. Be cohesive in your dealings. Trust built on and from mutual support, facilitating communication and encouraging coordination can be rewarding.

Ogwo David Emenike

#45. I remember you organized the big laundry party and all of our friends took their dirty clothes to the laundromat and drank wine out of a wineskin until the manager threw us out because you kept yelling that there ought to be a prize given to the owner of the biggest pair of boxer shorts.

Guy Vanderhaeghe

#46. If I had any interest in coming back to baseball, it would be as a general manager and not as a manager.

Lou Brock

#47. Manager! Have brain - use it!

Gerry Geek

#48. You know what? I look forward to the Battle of Alberta for the next X number of years. If the idea is, 'Burn it to the ground,' then Ken can find another manager to do it.

Jay Feaster

#49. I think I'm most proud of the fact that I have figured out how to exist as both a creative person and artist, and a businesswoman and manager. Because those two things do not go together.

Shonda Rhimes

#50. Being general manager is like being the de facto owner. It's like wearing the crown of 'Restaurant Man' without being 'Restaurant Man.' You're trying to run the business, but you're running the ranch without riding the big horse.

Joe Bastianich

#51. When you're winning games, everyone thinks everything the manager says and does is fantastic. Then it goes the other way, and those earlier criticisms of players can backfire.

Gary Lineker

#52. I have respected every manager I have played under, but if you can't learn from someone like Mark Hughes, it is going to be hard for you.

Charlie Adam

#53. 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

#54. If you're a manager you can't get frustrated and be emotional. You have to continue to steer the ship, you can't let go of the wheel because who knows where it will go then.

Kirk Gibson

#55. The Night Manager doesn't exist in the post-Cold war universe, it exists much more in the modern world, I think. There is more action. The bad guys don't have particularly political or national-political affiliations.

Tom Hiddleston

#56. This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once: scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic.

Carl Jung

#57. There was something special about watching a manager and umpire both convinced they were totally right, but knowing that one had to be wrong. As an ump, those moments made my job fun, and getting 'nose-to-nose' was part of my job description.

Doug Harvey

#58. When a copier sales person cold calls a purchasing manager whom he has never met is it any surprise that the purchasing manager will most likely never return that call?

Josh Turner

#59. Now I have an agent, a manager, a lawyer, a publicist, all the king's horses and all the king's men.

Christian McKay

#60. I've never had a manager, and I've had various agents, and, fortunately or unfortunately, I've been blessed.

Rebecca De Mornay

#61. If your endeavors result in success of the company in a continuity of at
least a few years, you are a successful manager. If other companies follow
your business approach, you are certainly an important manager with
leader characteristics.

Eraldo Banovac

#62. I'm fortunate to have a team of people who help me. I've got an assistant, an office manager, a nanny - she's not full-time, but she's there when I need her.

Marcia Gay Harden

#63. I am tired of being roasted. I had a great deal of hard luck while manager of the team and somehow or other couldn't get the best out of the material I had at hand.

Joe Kelley

#64. We're wanting you to come to the place where you're beginning to offer your thought deliberately. Where you are guiding your thoughts on purpose, where you are the creator of your own experience. Because you are the manager of your own thought

Esther Hicks

#65. When I got into the sport I was so fat that my manager said he should send me to boot camp to lose the weight!

Li Na

#66. Man is born to dream, to be enlightened, to connect and to be fulfilled. Managers are too.

Stan Slap

#67. Achieving the highest possible return on human capital must be every manager's goal.

Brian Tracy

#68. An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I made props and I walked on, and I changed scenery, and I realized that I just loved it.

Jeremy Irons

#69. I'm not a great manager; I try to be a great leader. And for me, that's been going through a process of not how to be a great CEO but how to be a great Evan, and that's really been the challenge.

Evan Spiegel

#70. The ability to seize initiative is the most essential quality of any truly successful manager.

Sumantra Ghoshal

#71. The leader goes also to the less traditional networking meetings. The manager participates in networking events organized and promoted.

Elena D. Calin

#72. [Joseph] and the Virgin Mary got turned away from the inn and had to go sleep in the manger. (Not with the manager, like Troo says.)

Lesley Kagen

#73. Your identity should not be fully defined by what you do, by being a manager, a wife, a mother of children or a computer programmer

Sunday Adelaja

#74. A knowledgeable manager can lend to the success of an organization "almost" as much as a poorly trained manager can damage it.

Mark W. Boyer

#75. When I was very young in London, I had a bank account, which didn't have a great deal in it. I should think at least every three months the bank manager would call me up and threaten to strangle me because I had no money, and I was writing checks.

Peter Mayle

#76. We want to live. THE MANAGER (ironically). For Eternity? THE FATHER No, sir, only for a moment ... in you.

Luigi Pirandello

#77. A manager may be tough and practical, squeezing out, while the going is good, the last ounce of profit and dividend ...

Robert Menzies

#78. I remember when replay first came to TV. I can't remember who it was now, but a manager came out to beef about a call, and I ran him. He said he was going back into the clubhouse and watch replay. I told him, 'Go ahead. I am the replay.'

Doug Harvey

#79. I think the best thing you can do is be aware that as a first time founder you are likely to be a very bad manager.

Sam Altman

#80. If you don't hire at least one or two people that are smarter than you are, then you're a terrible manager and I don't need you.

Nolan Bushnell

#81. Work should be personal. For all of us. Not just for the artist and entrepreneur. Work should have meaning for the accountant, the construction worker, the technologist, the manager and the clerk.

Howard Schultz

#82. Sometimes I have young comics that ask me, "What should I do when I meet an agent or a manager and they ask me stuff?" And I say, "Well, they always usually ask, 'Where do you see yourself in five years, 10 years, 15 years?' And it's good to have an answer for that."

Baron Vaughn

#83. My manager always preaches golf comes first.

Bubba Watson

#84. There is a lot of difference at McDonald's between the guy in the back making the fries and the manager up front who is running the place.

Don Meyer

#85. I have a wonderful road manager, and he travels with me. And my valet and friend travels with me. My little entourage is great, and they take good care of me.

Don Rickles

#86. For example, for me, my brother helped me get a manager, which I don't take for granted. It's tough getting a manager, let alone one that actually cares about you and is smart. But from there, no one's going to cast me just because I'm James Franco's little brother.

Dave Franco

#87. As a manager you are important sometimes and you make mistakes, but the most important people are your staff and your players. Never call me the special one.

Rafael Benitez

#88. Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.

Waylon Jennings

#89. After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.

William S. Burroughs

#90. She put her hands around the neck of our production manager, and you know, started to choke him.

David Gest

#91. Perry, the manager, had come up with him, in trousers and bathrobe. He was a stout, jovial-looking man ordinarily, but right now he was only stout.
("The Room With Something Wrong")

Cornell Woolrich

#92. Bury My Heart is a life-altering approach to turning managers into unconditionally committed leaders.

Stan Slap

#93. Toughest job in baseball is the general manager. Second toughest is the hitting coach.

Ken Harrelson

#94. Many of the factors that we think will cause motivation, such as fair pay and a good manager, won't make you love your job. Even if you eliminate what makes you dissatisfied, that doesn't make you motivated. It doesn't make your work rewarding. You just are less bothered by things.

Clayton Christensen

#95. I was cursed with age, really. You do that stupid thing at 12 years old when you say something and it kind of sticks with you for the rest of your life. So, I believe I said I wanted to be a fishery manager. In hindsight, I think acting could be a better route.

Tom Felton

#96. It's a great honour to be asked to be the next manager of Manchester United. I am delighted that Sir Alex saw fit to recommend me for the job. I have great respect for everything he has done and for the football club.

David Moyes

#97. I bet him he wouldn't get 15 league goals and I'm going to have to change my bet with him. If he gets to 15 I can change it and I am allowed to do that because I'm the manager. I'm going to make it 150 now!

Alex Ferguson

#98. So far, the results confirm the folklore: Programmers seem to be a bit more productive after they've done the estimate themselves, compared to cases in which the manager did it without even consulting them. When the two did the estimating together, the results tended to fall in between.

Tom DeMarco

#99. I'm a fair manager, put it that way. I like to be fair with the players, but there's a time for discipline.

Don Baylor

#100. The manager swiftly overtook him, sliding effortlessly past the skinny Englishman, with the practiced ease of someone used to slinking around ailing, despotic monarchs.

Tom Vater