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"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."
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"Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers."
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"I like to make everything my friends are involved in a little better. I should have just become a manager."
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"For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio."
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"If something that needs to be done that we don't feel confronting, we do it through the manager."
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"Our entire team is focused on managing this company for value - fixing or eliminating those operations that lessen value and expanding or adding those that enhance value."
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"Great leaders understand the importance of assigning the right people to the right positions. If you put the wrong person in the wrong place, no matter how talented or earnest they are, they will never reach the peak of their potential. Their strengths will be underutilized and they may never measure up to your expectations. Reassign to get the best out of others and the situation."
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"We had a very energetic floor manager and he was always jumping around all over the place. The director would send down messages like, Can you tell that actor to calm down?"
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"My style will be management by being on the street, management by walking around. Third persons won't have to tell me what's going on in our city. I'll hear it, I'll see it, I'll touch it myself."
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"I, in fact, have been involved in the construction of and the management of wastewater treatment plants."
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"My mother is my manager and so knows exactly what I do and so on."
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"At least when it's in French, I won't know what the heck they're saying."
Saying
"If the guys on the bench were as good as the guys you have out there, they'd be out there in first place."
Sports
"No. 1, these guys out here on this field. They keep my energy level up. They try hard, they don't complain about things - and I'd just like to be with them when things are good, and hopefully we can win a pennant together."
Energy
"If he can hit, he can hit. I don't care if he came from Class Z league."
Care
"I know a lot of people on the field - players, coaches, managers - are glad that I'm gone."
People
"You have to have a short memory as a closer."
Memory
"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."
Management
"I just didn't have anything to say, so I said nothing."
Nothing
"Managers don't have as much leverage as they used to have. We can't really be the boss."
Leadership
"I haven't seen a player in this game, as long as I've been in it, that can't be pitched to... Barry is an outstanding ballplayer. I respect him an awful lot. I also have confidence in my pitchers that they can pitch to Barry Bonds and get him out."
Confidence
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