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"Management: An art of handling conflicting Egos to meet a common objective, be it political, organisational or societal in nature."

"All of those things had been talked about, suggested, rumored, as a manager and as a member of the Knicks organization, I couldn't allow myself to think that way or believe that."

"The executive moves we are announcing today will strengthen American for the long-term future and reflect well on the depth of the Company's management team."

"The best leaders don't give a damn about the definition of leadership, they are thinking about more important things."

"The earmark favor factory needs to be boarded up and demolished, not turned over to new management that may or may not have a better eye for earmarks with 'merit.'"

"My manager was Buddy Glee, who put me together with Mike Curb, and was basically the idea to bring some soul to the label and bring something different to the label besides the Hank Williams situation."

"It's nice to come into a town and be referred to as the manager of the Cleveland Indians instead of as the first black manager."

"He comes to London and gets a job in a nightclub, a gay club, where he's known as Straight Dave by the bar staff - and no one believes he's as straight as he claims to be. He meets the daughter of the club manager, and he has an affair with her."

"An employee's motivation is a direct result of the sum of interactions with his or her manager."
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"You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps. If the president of a company has a clean desk then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work."

"I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them."

"Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves."

"It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality."

"Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away."

"Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it."

"Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization."
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