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Management Quotes
"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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"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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"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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"We got great ratings and fan interest, and that's what management wanted."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"I like to make everything my friends are involved in a little better. I should have just become a manager."
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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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"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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"The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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."
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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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"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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"I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"All of those things had been talked about, suggested, rumored, as a manager and as a member of the Knicks organization, I couldn't allow myself to think that way or believe that."
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"They wanted to jump on their own bandwagon. Bobby Charlton had never made it as a manager. Bobby Moore hadn't either. I think they never stopped trying to put me in the same category. That was the road they went down with 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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"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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"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 problem is, we elected a manager and we need a leader. Let's face it: Bush is just dim."
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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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"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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"My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner."
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"The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood."
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"We're just delighted that management has come around to my way of thinking."
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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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"Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny."
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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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"Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act."
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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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"Finally, I told them I'd drop out of the management program if they'd give me an entry-level job in the newsroom for union wages, about fifty dollars a week."
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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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