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

"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."

"Telling the entire world and his dog how good a manager I was. I knew I was the best but I should have said nowt and kept the pressure off 'cos they'd have worked it out for themselves."

"More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager."

"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."

"We have problems with our physical security, operational security through to management."
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"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."

"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."

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

"The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them."
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