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"Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records."
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"It's like there was the Union, and then there's the Union Management. In some of the strikes that I covered when I saw the strike starting to break, wasn't necessarily when Management was giving in, more so than when the strikers were at odds with the Union Management."

"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."

"When we'd suggested doing it, the Theatre Royal management had said, 'Nobody wants to see Waiting for Godot.' As it happened, every single ticket was booked for every single performance, and this confirmation that our judgment was right was sweet. Audiences came to us from all over the world. It was amazing."

"As my manager says, 'These are wonderful problems.'"

"The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are."

"Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away."

"Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives."

"Any manager can do well in an expanding market."

"If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance."

"Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management."
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"It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time."


"So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be."


"A lot of times they don't want to hear it. But you know, if some good is done to you, you should pass it on."


"And the whole thing is that you're treated like a step-child. Here it was down here, everything in the black, because they were stealing, basically. Stealing from us old country boys down here."


"One thing is that I wasn't getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold. And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to have a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn't want us to be the ones."


"I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything."


"I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He's the biggest. He's like an Elvis in this business, but no, he's never been the rebel."
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