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Management Quotes
"The secret to winning is constant, consistent management."
"I was taught you never, ever disrespect your opponent or your teammates or your organization or your manager and never, ever your uniform."
"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."
"Successful people carefully manage their energy and associations, they are gatekeepers."
"The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why."
"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."
"We were developing an innovative Personal Information Manager called Chandler but a couple years ago I took off from that to do a project writing down my memoirs essentially, reminiscing about the development of the Macintosh."
"For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio."
"If I had a normal job and had been moving up, I'd be management level now."
"I don't even have an agent or manager, but rather have a number of associates who I turn to when needed; or conversely when they hear of someone looking for me they'll contact me."
"My manager wants me to dress like a nun and I want to dress like a teenager."
"Did I say that the President's entire job is image management? Of course not."
"The agendas on the management side of the table now are not in sync like they used to be because you have vastly different entities supplying programming to networks."
"A manager uses a relief pitcher like a six shooter, he fires until it's empty then takes the gun and throws it at the villain."
"The actual course is called fishery studies, and you study general aquatics and fishery management."
"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."
"Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it."
"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."
"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."
"We got great ratings and fan interest, and that's what management wanted."
"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."
"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."
"Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny."
"It goes without saying that when you're the manager of a Premiership club, you go eight miles down the road and get beaten by a team two divisions below you, it's disappointing."
"Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers."
"A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge."
"Today, a skilled manager makes more than the owner. And owners fight each other to get the skilled managers."
"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?"
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives."
"Later, I became the manager for Amelia Earhart, until, well, you know."
"Any manager can do well in an expanding market."
"Our entire team is focused on managing this company for value - fixing or eliminating those operations that lessen value and expanding or adding those that enhance value."
"If a chairman sacks the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well."
"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."
"At the end of the day, though, there are a huge number of considerations that our management team go through before accepting any project - checking out the license is just one of them."
"Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players."
"Did you know that the state is the proud owner of a condo complex in Conway? This budget adds a real estate manager position to assess what we own, and sell those properties that we don't need and shouldn't own."
"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."
"Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act."
"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."
"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."
"The first rule of management is delegation. Don't try and do everything yourself because you can't."
"There are no managers like there used to be managers."
"It's not just buying the company. Sure, we picked the right companies, and we picked the right management and, most importantly, we've given them the right incentive to perform."
"Until you fight the battle against time, you won't know how best to manage your time."
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