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Management Quotes
"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."
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"But I think the Champions League Final puts a massive pressure on every player and the manager, but we're enjoying the pressure and hopefully we can go there and win it."
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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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"If a chairman sacks the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well."
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"Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act."
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"I've got an opinion on everything, so I should go into management."
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"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."
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"We got great ratings and fan interest, and that's what management wanted."
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"A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me."
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"We did not have anyone like a manager, who could guide us and make it happen."
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"There is no doubt that Formula 1 has the best risk management of any sport and any industry in the world."
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"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."
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"The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon."
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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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"The players make the manager, it's never the other way."
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"Today, a skilled manager makes more than the owner. And owners fight each other to get the skilled managers."
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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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"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 earmark favor factory needs to be boarded up and demolished, not turned over to new management that may or may not have a better eye for earmarks with 'merit.'"
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"You can be stern and forthright, and that's my management style, but when you lose it totally, that's a sign of weakness."
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"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?"
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"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."
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"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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"The only difference between May and Day is the M and D! Be a good Managing Director of your life each day in May."
38
"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."
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"The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective."
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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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"The news today that Bush has vowed to veto any legislation that reviews the security implications of the Dubai Port World's potential management of our ports is ludicrous and the entire Democratic Party is calling him to task for it."
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"There has been only one manager, and his name is John McGraw."
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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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"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."
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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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"My mother is my manager and so knows exactly what I do and so on."
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"I've always felt happy at Newcastle. But things have gone a bit differently for me since we got a new manager."
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"We're just delighted that management has come around to my way of thinking."
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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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"Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives."
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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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"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."
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"The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it."
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"I'm not going to sit here and bash the manager, we have to regroup."
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"20% of management theories are responsible for 80% of results. That's assuming the Pareto Principle makes the cut."
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"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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"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."
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"Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny."
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"I know as a manager you have to abide by the chairman's decisions. But his decisions were this team, that team, this player, that player. The chairman is a control freak."
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"The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product."
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