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Management Quotes
"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."
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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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"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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"The only difference between May and Day is the M and D! Be a good Managing Director of your life each day in May."
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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 I got hoarse, the manager would say, 'Drink this. Joplin used to drink this,' and I used to say, 'Joplin? Joplin's dead."
7
"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."
7
"I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried."
7
"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."
7
"I like to make everything my friends are involved in a little better. I should have just become a manager."
7
"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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"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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"I'm not going to sit here and bash the manager, we have to regroup."
7
"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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"Again, racing for me was about energy management."
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"My manager and my agents, they go over my contracts."
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"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."
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"I was taught you never, ever disrespect your opponent or your teammates or your organization or your manager and never, ever your uniform."
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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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"We got great ratings and fan interest, and that's what management wanted."
7
"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."
7
"We have problems with our physical security, operational security through to management."
7
"If a chairman sacks the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well."
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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."
7
"Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players."
7
"Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented."
7
"She put her hands around the neck of our production manager, and you know, started to choke him."
7
"Always be nice to bankers. Always be nice to pension fund managers. Always be nice to the media. In that order."
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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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"And I'm the kind of manager that doesn't believe that you micro-manage professionals. They should understand their responsibility and carry out those responsibility."
7
"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."
6
"There is no doubt that Formula 1 has the best risk management of any sport and any industry in the world."
6
"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."
6
"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."
6
"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."
6
"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."
6
"I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager."
6
"I do want to be a manager one day. It might be 10 years, I don't know when."
6
"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."
6
"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?"
6
"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."
6
"Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed."
6
"Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records."
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"I could never be a manager. All I have is natural ability."
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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."
6
"The actual course is called fishery studies, and you study general aquatics and fishery management."
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"When we first went there we completely lacked confidence. Our manager told us our act was too long, and told us to drop certain numbers and concentrate on the exciting stuff. And he was right."
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