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"I don't believe a manager ever won a pennant. Casey Stengel won all those pennants with the Yankees. How many did he win with the Boston Braves and Mets?"
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"Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers."

"I like to make everything my friends are involved in a little better. I should have just become a manager."

"For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio."

"If something that needs to be done that we don't feel confronting, we do it through the manager."

"I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried."

"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."

"I will not be in the position of having management dictated to by labor."

"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."

"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?"

"Until you fight the battle against time, you won't know how best to manage your time."
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"I understand people who boo us. It's like going to Broadway show, you pay for your tickets and expect to be entertained. When you're not, you have a right to complain."


"It's a terrible thing to have to tell your fans, who have waited like Detroit's have, that their team won't win it this year. But it's better than lying to them."


"You give us the pitching some of these clubs have and no one could touch us, but God has a way of not arranging that, because it's not as much fun."


"People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it."
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