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Management Quotes
"I followed an Italian manager and it cannot be easy when you follow a manager who thinks very differently."
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"In the same way that I had to follow an Italian manager here, I can imagine that it was not easy for an Italian manager to follow me at Porto."
189
"I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results had not been good, he lost a game on December 22 or 23. On Christmas Day, the telephone rang and he was sacked in the middle of our lunch."
145
"The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children."
141
"Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things."
99
"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."
69
"The job of arguing with the umpire belongs to the manager, because it won't hurt the team if he gets thrown out of the game."
68
"A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge."
61
"When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it."
59
"I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms."
56
"We need to learn to protect our time."
55
"We were developing an innovative Personal Information Manager called Chandler but a couple years ago I took off from that to do a project writing down my memoirs essentially, reminiscing about the development of the Macintosh."
55
"Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission."
54
"I feel like I have reached the stage where I can no longer produce for my club, my manager, and my teammates."
51
"The Porto players were with me for two and a half years, they believed in me, in my methods, in the way we do it. The next day I go and a manager arrives who works completely differently."
51
"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!"
50
"More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager."
50
"We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many."
50
"I'm not the manager because I'm always right, but I'm always right because I'm the manager."
49
"As my manager says, 'These are wonderful problems.'"
49
"We have problems with our physical security, operational security through to management."
49
"Especially with the predators, one of the things that gets these programs going on a local level is for our land management agencies to build partnerships with surrounding communities and landowners."
48
"The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided."
48
"An employee's motivation is a direct result of the sum of interactions with his or her manager."
48
"I was taught you never, ever disrespect your opponent or your teammates or your organization or your manager and never, ever your uniform."
48
"It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it."
47
"Ford, as I understand it, had done away with the concept of regional management, and now they've re-introduced that in Europe, so it's kind of a two-way street."
47
"Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it."
47
"I was a window dresser for Burton's once. What really put me off was the area manager coming round and saying, Charles, I think you're a natch at this."
47
"Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management."
46
"It's nice to come into a town and be referred to as the manager of the Cleveland Indians instead of as the first black manager."
46
"I never was a person who wanted a handout. I was a cafeteria worker. I'm not too proud to ask the Best Western manager to give me a job. I have cleaned homes."
46
"So, when I got the contract for my album, even though it was an English record, my manager insisted on making sure we would record in Spanish as well, and it worked out really well for me."
46
"That didn't happen. Still, I had six pretty good years and one where I didn't reach what I wanted for myself or the club. I don't accept that makes you a bad manager or a poor coach. If that is the view I strongly disagree with it."
46
"You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line."
45
"I could never be a manager. All I have is natural ability."
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"The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness."
45
"I don't even have an agent or manager, but rather have a number of associates who I turn to when needed; or conversely when they hear of someone looking for me they'll contact me."
45
"The actual course is called fishery studies, and you study general aquatics and fishery management."
45
"People come out to see the players. When do you see a manager anyway? When he's out on the field arguing with the umpires, making a fool of himself and you know you can't win, and when he brings out the line-up card."
44
"Namely the manager will assess what he believes a player is worth and he will discuss that with the board and then we will go after that target. If we can achieve it at that target, great, but if we can't we will have to move on to the next player."
44
"I think maintaining relationships with my friends, my mother, my manager, they're all important."
44
"If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance."
44
"We need what I have often called an ecological approach to the management of these resources and we do not have that now. We have the inertia of past habits, unsustainable habits."
44
"Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed."
43
"Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over."
43
"No seriously... when there's families, you tend to go back to your room after the gig rather than go for a drink with the other guys. But there's always someone who's got something going, like the tour manager."
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