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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."
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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."

"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."

"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."

"The only difference between May and Day is the M and D! Be a good Managing Director of your life each day in May."
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"Guys ask me, don't I get burned out? How can you get burned out doing something you love? I ask you, have you ever got tired of kissing a pretty girl?"


"Listen, if you start worrying about the people in the stands, before too long you're up in the stands with them."


"Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure."


"About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure."


"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination."


"The only way I'd worry about the weather is if it snows on our side of the field and not theirs."
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