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Management Quotes
"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."
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"My manager wants me to dress like a nun and I want to dress like a teenager."
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"The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are."
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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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"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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"Again, racing for me was about energy management."
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"The secret to winning is constant, consistent management."
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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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"I do want to be a manager one day. It might be 10 years, I don't know when."
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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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"I, in fact, have been involved in the construction of and the management of wastewater treatment plants."
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"Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off."
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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 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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"My manager said it would more effective against left-handed hitters. It seemed to me that was impossible to do without the high leg kick, which I started that day."
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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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"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."
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"Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented."
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"A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December."
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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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"I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager."
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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 typical project design time for a large company like IBM - and they keep track of this - is a little over four years."
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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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"The problem is, we elected a manager and we need a leader. Let's face it: Bush is just dim."
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"Proper process, should not hinder progress. Too much focus on process, has left many blind to measured, tangible progress."
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"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."
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"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."
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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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"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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"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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"She put her hands around the neck of our production manager, and you know, started to choke him."
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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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"Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats."
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"Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records."
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"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."
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"Any manager can do well in an expanding market."
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"Index investing outperforms active management year after year."
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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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"I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried."
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"The smaller the function, the greater the management."
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"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."
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"My manager and my agents, they go over my contracts."
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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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"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 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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