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Management Quotes
"I've always felt happy at Newcastle. But things have gone a bit differently for me since we got a new manager."
"I've got an opinion on everything, so I should go into management."
"I don't know if we'd have been as dominant as we were last season. The new things, the new ideas the manager brought in everyone took them on board so well. He is special."
"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."
"I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager."
"I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried."
"Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats."
"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."
"More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager."
"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."
"I do want to be a manager one day. It might be 10 years, I don't know when."
"You cannot do everything by yourself, you need to learn how to delegate responsibility and trust people that everything will be done on time and with highest quality."
"The only thing I believe is this: A player does not have to like a manager and he does not have to respect a manager. All he has to do is obey the rules."
"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."
"Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away."
"I like to make everything my friends are involved in a little better. I should have just become a manager."
"The smaller the function, the greater the management."
"The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management."
"I recognized that teaching and research institutions vitally depend on the involvement of active scientists also in management functions."
"I don't believe a manager ever won a pennant. Casey Stengel won all those pennants with the Yankees. How many did he win with the Boston Braves and Mets?"
"I was through as a manager. I did become involved late in the 1968 campaign at the national scene at the last minute. But I was through as a manager, and I've stayed through, incidentally."
"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."
"As my manager says, 'These are wonderful problems.'"
"An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I made props and I walked on, and I changed scenery, and I realized that I just loved it."
"I never answer if someone knocks on my door and only the band and my manager have my phone number. In any case my phone doesn't ring so I never notice it. I occasionally just walk past and pick it up to see if anyone's there."
"After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'"
"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."
"I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms."
"Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management."
"I was able to go from stage hand to floor manager to assistant director to director in a year because there was just no one else to do it and what I didn't realise and what people don't understand now about television is that we used to do about five shows a day."
"J has told me about his past. I know what happened and why. But he is the one person who made me believe in my talent and whatever happened in the past, he's been a wonderful manager to me."
"My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner."
"Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission."
"The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective."
"Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed."
"The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided."
"Red Carpet Enterprise has been really well received since one guy can install it in about an hour, and it makes it trivial to deal with software management issues like deploying updates and creating standard package sets for your various machines."
"My manager and my agents, they go over my contracts."
"Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records."
"I will not be in the position of having management dictated to by labor."
"We need to learn to protect our time."
"I feel like I have reached the stage where I can no longer produce for my club, my manager, and my teammates."
"The marathon is all about energy management. I had planned to run it like a track race with strategic surges to blow up my competitors by putting them into oxygen debt, so that is the way I prepared."
"One of the dumber things my manager said was, Stick to the melody. But I can't."
"The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness."
"The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon."
"The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood."
"We're just delighted that management has come around to my way of thinking."
"I started at Pillsbury as a manager in one of their analysis functions, then worked my way up the corporate ladder to become vice president. Moving to Burger King was an important moment in my career."
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