"The smaller the function, the greater the management."

C. Northcote Parkinson, British Historian

Management,

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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."

Richard Grimes, American Actor

Management, Giving

"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."

Ian McKellen, English Actor

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

Jeffrey Tambor, American Actor

Management, Manager, Problems

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

Reggie Jackson, American Athlete

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

Tommy Lasorda, American Coach

Management, Flies

"Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives."

W. Edwards Deming, American Scientist

Management, Objectives

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

W. Edwards Deming, American Scientist

Management, Manager

"Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management."

Edward Kennedy, American Politician

Management, Now

"An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I made props and I walked on, and I changed scenery, and I realized that I just loved it."

Jeremy Irons, English Actor

Management, Manager, Acting, Theater, Wage

"I know as a manager you have to abide by the chairman's decisions. But his decisions were this team, that team, this player, that player. The chairman is a control freak."

Paul Gascoigne, English Athlete

Management, Manager, Control, Decisions

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"The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom."

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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."

"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."

"Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management."

"An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I made props and I walked on, and I changed scenery, and I realized that I just loved it."

"I know as a manager you have to abide by the chairman's decisions. But his decisions were this team, that team, this player, that player. The chairman is a control freak."

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"Delay is the deadliest form of denial."

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"Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married."

"Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion."

"A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn."

"When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body."

"The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom."

"In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want."

"Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved."

"Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse."