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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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"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."

"It goes without saying that when you're the manager of a Premiership club, you go eight miles down the road and get beaten by a team two divisions below you, it's disappointing."

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


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


"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?"


"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."


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


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