Managers Quotes

No manager ever won no ballgames.

After taking risk into account, do more managers than you’d see by chance outperform with persistence? Virtually every economist who studied this question answers with a resounding 'no.'

The days of the 'intuitive' manager are numbered.

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.

He foresaw the platooning that managers like Casey Stengel used years before it happened. He told me I had to be a switch-hitter if I was going to play.

I'm not the manager because I'm always right, but I'm always right because I'm the manager.

The prime occupational hazard of a manager is superficiality.

All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.

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.

Managers must have the discipline not to keep pulling up the flowers to see if their roots are healthy.

The idea that you can take smart but inexperienced 25-year-olds who never managed anything and turn them into effective managers via two years of classroom training is ludicrous.

The one thing I hate about other managers is waffle that is nowhere near the truth. I would never conduct myself like that.

Some of the most successful people managers are also the best listeners.

I'm really enjoying learning new ideas because eventually I want to become a manager myself so I'm gathering all this information from managers now and previously.

My mother is my manager and so knows exactly what I do and so on.

I think corporate managers should learn to be better investors because it would make them better managers.

I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that’s cliche, I don’t know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.

When managers have got decisions to make, whether it benefits me or not, I have to be man enough to take it.

If you want peace of mind I suggest you resign as general manager of the universe.

What I expect is a little more respect from a fellow manager.

If new ideas are the lifeblood of any thriving organisation-and, trust me, they are-managers must learn to revere, not merely tolerate, the people who come up with those ideas.

Prosperity can't be just for CEOs and hedge fund managers. Democracy can't be just for billionaires and corporations. Prosperity and democracy are part of your basic bargain, too.

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.

Everyone told me you can't build a major tech company in Canada. There just aren't enough investors or engineers or top-level managers. Each day, I'm driven to prove them wrong.

Managers assert drive and control to get things done; leaders pause to discover new ways of being and achieving .

Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.

Too many managers and executives try to reduce programming to a low-level assembly-line activity. That's inefficient, wasteful, costly in the long run, and inhumane to programmers.

[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.

I have to be involved in negotiations because players have to buy into me and what I want from them if they join my club, so all managers need to be fully involved in transfers, that's for sure.

The job of a professional manager is not to like people. It is not to change people. It is to put their strengths to work.

Managers who master the hammer and expect all problems to behave like nails find organizational life confusing and frustrating.

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.

Most managers receive much more data (if not information) than they can possibly absorb even if they spend all of their time trying to do so. Hence they already suffer from an information overload.

If you want to do something that's going to change the world, build software that people want to use instead of software that managers want to buy.

How many managers told me, 'Get a nose job. You're not pretty enough'? But I proved them wrong.

We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.

I hit a grand slam off Ron Herbel and when his manager Herman Franks came out to get him, he was bringing Herbel's suitcase.

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.

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?

Managers are trained to make incremental, programmatic improvements. They aren't trained to lead large-scale change.

The system metaphor is a story that everyone--customers, programmers, and managers--can tell about how the system works.

The elites - or managers in companies - no longer control the conversation. This is how insurrections start.

Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.

Managers often hold on to resisters because of a specific skill set or because they've been around for a long time. Don't.

John Bond has blackened my name with his insinuations about the private lives of football managers. Both my wives are upset.

A manager says 'go,' but a leader says 'let's go'.

We certainly have at present the dismal situation that the most imaginative men are directed by a group, the top managers, who are among the least.

There's an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.

I didn't want to chase movies. It's too hard. You've got to work at it - opening nights, photo shoots, publicity people, managers. I never wanted to do that. I'm too lazy.