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"More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager."
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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."

"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?"

"My style will be management by being on the street, management by walking around. Third persons won't have to tell me what's going on in our city. I'll hear it, I'll see it, I'll touch it myself."

"I, in fact, have been involved in the construction of and the management of wastewater treatment plants."
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"Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences."


"I'd rather win two or three, lose one, win two or three more. I'm a great believer in things evening out. If you win a whole bunch in a row, somewhere along the line you're going to lose some too."


"Fans tend to get too excited by streaks of either kind and I think the press does too. There should be a happy medium."
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