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"I could never be a manager. All I have is natural ability."
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"The purpose of people-centric Change Management is to build an ongoing change capability."

"We need to learn to protect our time."

"You cannot do everything by yourself, you need to learn how to delegate responsibility and trust people that everything will be done on time and with highest quality."

"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."

"Until you fight the battle against time, you won't know how best to manage your time."

"Later, I became the manager for Amelia Earhart, until, well, you know."

"The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it."

"The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective."

"The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon."

"And I'm the kind of manager that doesn't believe that you micro-manage professionals. They should understand their responsibility and carry out those responsibility."
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"Today's Little Leaguers, and there are millions of them each year, pick up how to hit and throw and field just by watching games on TV. By the time they're out of high school, the good ones are almost ready to play professional ball."

"When I hit a home run I usually didn't care where it went. So long as it was a home run was all that mattered."

"Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else's brain, who knows how good a player I might have been."

"Heroes are people who are all good with no bad in them. That's the way I always saw Joe DiMaggio. He was beyond question one of the greatest players of the century."

"Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'"
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