Manager Quotes

A “self-leader” is the positively influence you have on yourself and on others without any influence with your titles and positions. You must be able to lead yourself before you can lead others.

Me myself is enough to manage.

The key to being a great agent is treating everyone like a celebrity and treating a celebrity like everyone else.

Every boss, if you are forgetting, is another human being made of bones and flesh and likes it when his ego gets stroked.

Without pride, man becomes a parasite – and there are already too many parasites.

Shame comes in different doses.

It’s late and most of the clerks are at home in their beds, dreaming of swimming in pools filled with real money.

Don’t mock my suggestions, Ridley – one day in the near future, they might just save your life.” Maxwell D. Kalist.

Only men with intelligence, confidence and absolutely no empathy at all can progress upstairs.

Every time I so much as blink you get an erection.

To Kalist, Baumauer’s just a timber bridge in need of a good hot fire.

You are a more powerful person than you might have ever imagined.” Maxwell D. Kalist.

Are there not times, Ridley, when you yourself wish only to hear the best in people – and not to be dragged downwards into the underworld we all regularly inhabit?

Secrets are dangerous.” Gottfried Baumauer.

Bad boss? Fire him/her. When you're interviewing for a job, You're job is to interview them. You are an equal.

First class Manager hire first class leader, second class Manager hire third class manager and third class manager fire first class leader.

There are two types of silly bosses: one is the too kind boss and another, the evil boss

There is a leader in every manager, there is not a manager in every leader.

Victims blame, managers maintain, and leaders change.

A wise manager knows that it is sometimes more important to listen than to talk.

The first step out of the gate has to be knowing where you want to end up. What do you really want from your company?

The first step to solving any problem is to accept one’s own accountability for creating it.

Being relevant to your customers only when you’re trying to sell something means choosing to be irrelevant to them for the rest of the time.

There will be plenty of other problems in the future. This is as good a time as any to get ahead of them.

The economy is in ruins! Bottom line? Good management will defeat a bad economy.

Your company is its own competition and can deliver itself debilitating blows the competition only dreams of.

There is no better manager than a natural born one.

Instead of waiting for a leader you can believe in, try this: Become a leader you can believe in.

The purpose of leadership is to change the world around you in the name of your values, so you can live those values more fully.

Profitability. Growth. Quality. Exceeding customer expectations. These are not examples of values. These are examples of corporate strategies being sold to you as values.

When you’re a manager, you work for your company. When you’re a leader, your company works for you.

Work/life balance is not about escaping work. It’s about living exactly the way you want to when you’re at work.

What first separates a leader from a normal human being? A leader knows who they are as a human being.

True leaders live their values everywhere, not just in the workplace.

The worst thing in your own development as a leader is not to do it wrong. It’s to do it for the wrong reasons.

When rewards come from an external source instead of an internal source, they’re unreliable, which means they’re dangerous if you grow to depend on them.

Human behavior is only unpredictable and dangerous if you don’t start from humanity in the first place.

Imagine a world where what you say synchs up, not sinks down.

Why live my personal values at work? This is an excellent question to ask. If your attorneys are planning an insanity defense.

Here’s what you need to know most about leadership: Lead your own life first. The only thing in this world that will dependably happen from the top down is the digging of your grave.

The myth of management is that your personal values are irrelevant or inappropriate at work.

It’s impossible for a company to get what it wants most if managers have to make a choice between their own values and company priorities.

Try not to take this the wrong way, but your brain is smarter than you are.

A manager’s emotional commitment is the ultimate trigger for their discretionary effort, worth more than financial, intellectual & physical commitment combined.

You can stuff yourself with emotional fulfillment until it’s dribbling down your chin & your ego will quickly chomp it down and demand more.

Your dreams and the dreams of your company may be different, but they are in no way incompatible.

Providing the ultimate solution to work/life balance: not escaping from work but living the way you want to at work.

Your company really has to work for you before you’ll really work for your company.

What companies want most from their managers is what they most stop their managers from giving. What managers want most from their jobs is what they most stop themselves from getting.

Most managers have plenty of emotional commitment to give to their jobs. If they can be convinced it’s safe and sensible to give it.