Managers Quotes

I say get an education. Become an electrician, a mechanic, a doctor, a lawyer, anything but a fighter. In this trade, it's the managers that make the money and last the longest.

Perhaps there really are managers who can outperform the market consistently - logic would suggest that they exist. But they are remarkably well-hidden.

Managers must see themselves as experimenters who lead learning, not dictators who impose control.

I sometimes think I've needed a bit of an arm around me in my career - which I've not always got from certain managers and coaches who didn't understand me.

You know over 20 years I played for a number of managers and dozens of coaches. I don't know any of them that I didn't learn something from to help make me a better player.

That's all baseball is, is numbers; it's run by numbers, averages, percentage and odds. Managers make their decisions based on the numbers.

When results aren't good the manager gets the sack, that's the game.

Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.

Managers who extensively plan the future get the timing wrong.

During the Gulf War, journalists used to challenge government news managers and insisted they wouldn't just accept the official version of events.

The challenge of being a manager is to get the best out of everybody, not just the few who are clones of yourself.

Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.

Good managers have a bias for action.

Luck is the great stabilizer in baseball.

More than anyone else, he's (Hank Aaron) made me wish I wasn't a manager.

As system virtualization becomes mainstream, IT managers will find a greater need for disk imaging for disaster recovery and systems deployment,.

When it comes to fund managers and market strategists, this year's hero usually turns into next year's zero.

I'm open to any collabos if the price is right, just hit up my manager.

All resources are not obvious; great managers find and develop available talent.

People join organizations, they leave managers.

I didn't like dancing in Canada. The managers of the clubs treated me as less than a cow. And Canadians don't tip so you have to ask for more base pay.

The egotistical ambition to always want to earn more money harms both the company and the individual himself. That is the biggest weakness of many managers - the financial crisis has proven this.

The old adage that you shouldn't change a winning team doesn't apply in modern international football because managers have to study the opposition and pick players who exploit their weaknesses.

We have great managers who havent spent a day in management school. Do we have great surgeons that havent spent a day in surgical school?

Every top team has got at least one top keeper. You need people to move, managers to change. You need something to happen for something to happen. You can't just charge in somewhere.

The image-managers encourage the individual to fashion himself into a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.

People quit managers, not jobs.

A manager has his cards dealt to him and he must play them.

Managers are the basic and scarcest resource of any business enterprise.

People and their managers are working so hard to be sure things are done right, that they have hardly have time to decide if they are doing the right things.

What we are looking for is managers who are awake enough to alter the world as they find it, to make it harmonize with what they and their people are trying to accomplish.

Some of the most flowery praise you hear on the subject of teams is only hypocrisy. Managers learn to talk a good game about teams even when they're secretly threatened by the whole concept.

If I have to tell a guy he's got something to do, I consider myself a failure as a manager.

Sometimes when I'm directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that's okay with me.

Players only understand substitutions when they become managers.

Real benefits come when managers begin to understand the profound difference between 'cost cutting' and 'eliminating the causes of costs'

Reliance's success is a reflection of India's capabilities, the talent of her people and the potential of her entrepreneurs, engineers, managers, and workers.

I'm not just trying to be a good game manager. I'm trying to be great.

We are long-term players in the industry. We're not just crazy and emotional. We try to be logical business managers.

When it comes to being slaves to fashion, American managers make adolescent girls look like rugged individualists.

Introverts listen better, they assess risks more carefully, they can be wiser managers. It's not for nothing that the Silicon Valley billionaires are so often the retiring types.

Managers have very tough jobs. I always respected their job but demanded respect in return.

If we want people on the front lines of companies to be responsible for making good business decisions, they must have the same information that managers use to make good business decisions.

There are a lot of idiot fund managers out there who add no value to the process at all.

I finished reading High Output Management by Andrew Grove, which had such valuable insights for leaders that I've been forcing managers at Duolingo to read the book.

Managers are agents of transformation, converting the workforce in developed countries from one of manual workers to one of highly educated knowledge workers.

I've never wanted to play bank managers and real people particularly.

In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.

I actually don't think that I have a problem playing for managers. But history, people might think otherwise.

Managers focus on short-term goals versus opportunities or challenges coming down the road.