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"Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats."
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"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."
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"Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management."
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"It's unfortunate that you don't see the loyalty from management to players and players to management like we used to see in the old days."
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"I'm not the manager because I'm always right, but I'm always right because I'm the manager."
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"They wanted to jump on their own bandwagon. Bobby Charlton had never made it as a manager. Bobby Moore hadn't either. I think they never stopped trying to put me in the same category. That was the road they went down with me."
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"It's not just buying the company. Sure, we picked the right companies, and we picked the right management and, most importantly, we've given them the right incentive to perform."
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"If a chairman sacks the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well."
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"One of the dumber things my manager said was, Stick to the melody. But I can't."
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"Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off."
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"There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog, waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there."
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"One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition."
Ability
"The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn."
Future
"Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time."
Change
"To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke."
Economy
"You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction."
Direction
"You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment."
Intelligence
"Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it."
Writing
"Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate."
Technology
"Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life."
Change
"Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur."
Parenting
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