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Management Quotes
"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."
36
"I followed an Italian manager and it cannot be easy when you follow a manager who thinks very differently."
22
"The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children."
18
"It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it."
12
"Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things."
12
"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."
11
"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!"
9
"We have problems with our physical security, operational security through to management."
4
"I'm not the manager because I'm always right, but I'm always right because I'm the manager."
3
"Alex Ferguson is the best manager I've ever had at this level. Well, he's the only manager I've actually had at this level. But he's the best manager I've ever had."
3
"My manager was Buddy Glee, who put me together with Mike Curb, and was basically the idea to bring some soul to the label and bring something different to the label besides the Hank Williams situation."
2
"Most of the pressure comes from myself, not from others. I don't need a manager or a pundit to put pressure on me. I do all that myself before others do it."
2
"Again, racing for me was about energy management."
2
"An employee's motivation is a direct result of the sum of interactions with his or her manager."
2
"Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented."
2
"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."
2
"And I was asked if I would come and help with the recovery of this great British company, Cable and Wireless, and I'm delighted to become part of the new and very talented management that have been brought in to that company as well."
1
"You can be stern and forthright, and that's my management style, but when you lose it totally, that's a sign of weakness."
1
"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."
1
"I think maintaining relationships with my friends, my mother, my manager, they're all important."
1
"The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are."
1
"I'm not going to sit here and bash the manager, we have to regroup."
1
"I, in fact, have been involved in the construction of and the management of wastewater treatment plants."
1
"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."
1
"Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off."
1
"I could never be a manager. All I have is natural ability."
1
"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."
1
"The players make the manager, it's never the other way."
1
"The upside to smoking is that you get to be social. I was looking for a light when I bumped into Ben Harper's manager. A couple of days later, Ben and I were in the studio."
1
"Always be nice to bankers. Always be nice to pension fund managers. Always be nice to the media. In that order."
1
"Anyway, how can you sack anyone who still hasn't got a contract. I'll be there for the game and I'll stand behind the dugout giving instructions to the players from there. They will respond to me more than the next manager."
1
"The executive moves we are announcing today will strengthen American for the long-term future and reflect well on the depth of the Company's management team."
"If something that needs to be done that we don't feel confronting, we do it through the manager."
"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."
"It's like there was the Union, and then there's the Union Management. In some of the strikes that I covered when I saw the strike starting to break, wasn't necessarily when Management was giving in, more so than when the strikers were at odds with the Union Management."
"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."
"There is no doubt that Formula 1 has the best risk management of any sport and any industry in the world."
"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."
"The manager is to be blamed who distributes parts to his players which they are unable to act."
"I have long believed these types of collaborative agreements are a far better approach to federal land management than the contentious battles that too often sidetrack proper resource management."
"When I got hoarse, the manager would say, 'Drink this. Joplin used to drink this,' and I used to say, 'Joplin? Joplin's dead."
"When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why."
"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."
"The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it."
"It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them."
"As population susceptibilities are better understood, we will be in a better position than we are in today to make informed decisions about risk management."
"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."
"My mother is my manager and so knows exactly what I do and so on."
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