Great Managers Quotes

• The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.

  Agha Hasan Abedi

  Inspirational, Real, Work

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• Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.

  Tom Peters

  Leadership, Business, Insperational

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  If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

  John Quincy Adams

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

  Paul Hawken

  Art, Business, Top Management

  Paul Hawken (1988). “Growing a Business”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "The Graduation Speech I'd Give, if Anyone Asked" by Karina Bland, www.azcentral.com. June 03, 2015.

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• Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

  Bill Gates

  Leadership, Business, Motivation

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.86, Hachette UK

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• A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

  Rosalynn Carter

  Motivational, Leadership, People

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• Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all.

  Gore Vidal

  Business, Useless Stuff, Time Management

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• Real management is developing people through work.

  Agha Hasan Abedi

  Real, Top Management, Middle Management

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• Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Leadership, Top Management, Average

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.

  David Ogilvy

  Business, Top Management, Service Culture

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• The true genius of a great manager is his or her ability to individualize. A great manager is one who understands how to trip each person's trigger.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Genius, Great Men, Triggers

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• I was once asked what it takes to be a great manager...my response? Great players.

  Casey Stengel

  Player, Great Men, Response

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• It remains true that great managers recognize individualities and focus on developing strengths rather than weaknesses. Great leaders, in sharp contrast, recognize what is (or could be) shared in common - a vision, a dream, a mission, whatever - and inspire others to join them in the given enterprise.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Dream, Focus, Leader

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• In the minds of great managers, consistent poor performance is not primarily a matter of weakness, stupidity, disobedience, or disrespect. It is a matter of miscasting.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Stupidity, Disrespect, Mind

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• Great managers know they don't have 10 salespeople working for them. They know they have 10 individuals working for them . A great manager is brilliant at spotting the unique differences that separate each person and then capitalizing on them.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Unique, Differences, Brilliant

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• We have great managers who havent spent a day in management school. Do we have great surgeons that havent spent a day in surgical school?

  Henry Mintzberg

  School, Management, Great Men

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• You're not going to become a great manager overnight. You're not going to become a great public speaker or figure out how to raise money. These are the things you want to start the clock on as early as possible.

  Drew Houston

  Want, Great Men, Clock

  "DropBox CEO Drew Houston Explains How To Become A Leader Quickly" by Max Nisen, www.businessinsider.com. December 6, 2013.

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• Time is a great manager: it arranges things well.

  Pierre Corneille

  Great Men, Wells, Managers

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• All the time and effort people devote to picking the right fund, the hot hand, the great manager have, in most cases, led to no advantage.

  Peter Lynch

  Hands, People, Effort

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• We played a whole season unbeaten but you did not see me every week jumping on the tables. Once it's over it's over and you do in the next one as well as you can. Plenty of managers who have won the Champions League will not be considered great managers.

  Arsene Wenger

  Soccer, Football, Jumping

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• If you have a great manager, you want to pay him very well.

  Warren Buffett

  Want, Pay, Great Men

  Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting at Omaha, Nebraska, May 01, 2004.

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• The Four Keys of Great Managers: When selecting someone, they select for talent ... not simply experience, intelligence or determination. When setting expectations, they define the right outcomes ... not the right steps. When motivating someone, they focus on strengths ... not on weaknesses. and When developing someone, they help him find the right fit ... not simply the next rung on the ladder.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Determination, Keys, Expectations

  Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman (2014). “First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• My dad is a great manager. He's not just competent - he's very clever.

  Nico

  Clever, Dad, Great Men

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