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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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"After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'"

"Communication is the lifeblood of an organization."

"The best leaders don't give a damn about the definition of leadership, they are thinking about more important things."

"The masters and overseers were so good at employee development, in their absence, the employees still achieved the company's mission."

"It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day."

"She put her hands around the neck of our production manager, and you know, started to choke him."

"Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off."

"Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers."

"Today, a skilled manager makes more than the owner. And owners fight each other to get the skilled managers."

"Then, in 2000, John Reid, Elton John's former manager, asked me to audition for the stage version of The Graduate he was producing. So I worked on it, got the part, and after three weeks' rehearsal I was on stage!"
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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?"


"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."


"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."


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