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Management Quotes
"I could never be a manager. All I have is natural ability."
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"Index investing outperforms active management year after year."
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"We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many."
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"Telling the entire world and his dog how good a manager I was. I knew I was the best but I should have said nowt and kept the pressure off 'cos they'd have worked it out for themselves."
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"The manager is to be blamed who distributes parts to his players which they are unable to act."
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"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."
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"Again, racing for me was about energy management."
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"Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off."
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"My manager and my agents, they go over my contracts."
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"Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence."
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"If a chairman sacks the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well."
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"Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented."
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"But the manager's bought wisely - the players who've come in have taken us on to a different level and the players who won promotion have also performed at the top level, so long may it continue."
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"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."
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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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"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."
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"Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away."
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"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."
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"I'm not going to sit here and bash the manager, we have to regroup."
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"I feel like I have reached the stage where I can no longer produce for my club, my manager, and my teammates."
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"My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy."
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"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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"When I got hoarse, the manager would say, 'Drink this. Joplin used to drink this,' and I used to say, 'Joplin? Joplin's dead."
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"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."
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"I walked in and inherited a management group that I didn't know very well. They didn't know me, and we had a very short window to put together a credible recovery plan."
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"For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio."
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"If I had a normal job and had been moving up, I'd be management level now."
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"The actual course is called fishery studies, and you study general aquatics and fishery management."
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"The players make the manager, it's never the other way."
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"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."
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"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."
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"When I came out here, my manager thought that casting directors might think I'm a girl, and when I did Threat Matrix, they thought Jamie was a little light."
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"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."
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"If something that needs to be done that we don't feel confronting, we do it through the manager."
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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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"I do want to be a manager one day. It might be 10 years, I don't know when."
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"The smaller the function, the greater the management."
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"I recognized that teaching and research institutions vitally depend on the involvement of active scientists also in management functions."
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"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."
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"Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission."
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"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."
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"Did I say that the President's entire job is image management? Of course not."
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"He comes to London and gets a job in a nightclub, a gay club, where he's known as Straight Dave by the bar staff - and no one believes he's as straight as he claims to be. He meets the daughter of the club manager, and he has an affair with her."
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"Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers."
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"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?"
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"Any manager can do well in an expanding market."
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"In light of the recent controversy surrounding foreign management of U.S. Ports, a thorough review of foreign management of U.S. airports needs to occur."
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"Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players."
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"The first rule of management is delegation. Don't try and do everything yourself because you can't."
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"Shortly after that, we got management problems over in England, and Judas Priest asked me to join."
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