Good Manager Quotes

• If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act.

  Lee Iacocca

  Education, Business, Procrastination

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• Remember the difference between a boss and a leader. A boss says, Go! A leader says, Let's go!

  George E. M. Kelly

  Leadership, Business, Differences

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• A leader leads by example not by force.

  Sun Tzu

  Encouragement, War, Army

  "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu, translated by Chow-Hou Wee, (Chapter IX), 2003.

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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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• The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Relationship, Leadership

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.75, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.

  Laozi

  Leadership, People, Good Man

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

  Tom Peters

  Leadership, Business, Insperational

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• To be a good manager of people requires both fairness and bluntness.

  James Cook

  People, Good Man, Fairness

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• The old-fashioned idea of a good manager is one who is supposed to know all the answers, can solve every problem himself, and can give appropriate orders to his subordinates to carry out his plans... A good modern manager is like a good coach who leads and encourages his team in never-ending quality improvement.

  George E. P. Box

  Team, Order, Ideas

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• [Good managers] know that people have 'good' sides and 'bad' sides and that the secret of good management is in magnifying the former and toning down the latter.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  People, Good Man, Secret

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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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• The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

  Casey Stengel

  Motivational, Business, Hate

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• In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.

  Tina Fey

  Witty, Mean, Top Management

  "Bossypants". Book by Tina Fey, April 5, 2011.

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• The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness.

  Lee Iacocca

  Decision, Management, Economy

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• A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.

  Witter Bynner

  Leadership, People, Boss

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• Good managers have a bias for action.

  Tom Peters

  Prejudice, Action, Management

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• There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don't usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Organization, Two, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.

  Sam Wyly

  Integrity, Team, People

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• Every good leader is part manager and every good manager is part leader.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Leader, Good Man, Very Good

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• What constitutes a good manager in this field? He must be knowledgeable in the art with which he is concerned, an impresario, labor negotiator, diplomat, educator, publicity and public relations expert, politician, skilled businessman, a social sophisticate, a servant of the community, a tireless leader - becomingly humble before authority - a teacher, a tyrant, and a continuing student of the arts.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Teacher, Art, Humble

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• I love the ability to work with very good managers, and to provide the right incentives for them, and truly become a partner with that management, and make that management take a long view.

  Henry Kravis

  Views, Long, Incentives

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• I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager

  Victoria Principal

  Good Man, Management, Managers

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• A good manager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wasting the energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight you openly when they think that you are wrong - that's healthy.

  Robert Townsend

  Fighting, Thinking, People

  Robert Townsend (1988). “Further up the organization”, HarperCollins

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• If I Had To Sum Up In One Word The Qualities That Make Up A Good Manager, I'd Say Decisiveness.

  Lee Iacocca

  Good Man, Quality, Managers

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• When you retire, you start to try different things and you choose the one you enjoy the most. As a player, it's difficult to know if you'll be a good manager or not because you might think you can't deal with the dressing room or won't enjoy the game from the sidelines. There's also punditry and careers on TV, so football gives you many different options.

  Michel Salgado

  Football, Player, Thinking

  Source: uk.complex.com

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