Managers Quotes - Page 12

• Serving and helping are great things, but we can go too far. Managers should not adopt poor performers. Colleagues should not cover for each other's mistakes. Parents should not enable their children.

  John G. Miller

  Children, Mistake, Parent

  Source: www.jmlalonde.com

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• I never look at salaries. I have no aspirations of being a general manager or anything like that, I want to coach. For me there is no dollar signs on the towels, no dollar signs on their jerseys, I will make the decisions based on who is going to make us win. For me, that is my only priority.

  Bob Hartley

  Winning, Priorities, Decision

  Source: flamesnation.ca

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• The responsibility will always go with the manager - you put out the team.

  Brendan Rodgers

  Team, Responsibility

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Reliance's success is a reflection of India's capabilities, the talent of her people and the potential of her entrepreneurs, engineers, managers, and workers.

  Dhirubhai Ambani

  Inspirational, Powerful, Reflection

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• In football there is very rarely a "typical day" - there are always issues and challenges that arise from nowhere, and as manager you have to be ready to deal with them.

  Brendan Rodgers

  Football, Issues, Challenges

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• The analysis of statistics is a big part of the modern game, and it's important as a modern manager to embrace areas that can help your team and players improve.

  Brendan Rodgers

  Team, Player, Games

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• The quality of people you have around you as a manager is so vital. There are various factors that influence that process; fitness, form and the tactical approach to your opponent are all areas I review on a daily basis.

  Brendan Rodgers

  People, Quality, Opponents

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• Of course, as manager, the selection of the team is very much one of the biggest responsibilities I personally take, but I come to that decision thanks to advice and support of the people around me.

  Brendan Rodgers

  Team, Responsibility, People

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I hope when my time as Liverpool manager is over, I'm remembered as someone who improved the team and left the club in a better position than I inherited it.

  Brendan Rodgers

  Team, Clubs, Position

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I had the same manager as Frank Sinatra, so I got to meet him and he truly impressed me. He had this magical aura - the whole atmosphere in the room changed when he walked in.

  Tony Blackburn

  Atmosphere, Auras, Rooms

  The MIRROR Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. November 25, 2007.

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• One time I picked it up and a voice goes, 'Hi, it's Sinatra. Can you play me a record?' I was like, 'Oh yeah, very funny,' and hung up. I thought someone was having a joke, but it was actually Frank. My manager told me there aren't many people who put the phone down on Sinatra.

  Tony Blackburn

  Phones, Play, Voice

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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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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• There's a manager (Billy Martin) I could play for.

  Reggie Jackson

  Play

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• The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are.

  Reggie Jackson

  Sports, Thinking, Knack

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• The directors of such companies, however, being the managers rather of other people's money than of their own, it cannot well be expected, that they should watch over it with the same anxious vigilance with which the partners in a private copartnery frequently watch over their own.... Negligence and profusion, therefore, must always prevail, more or less, in the management of the affairs of such a company.

  Adam Smith

  People, Watches, Directors

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• Many of the railroad evils were inherent in the situation; they were explained by the fact that both managers and public were dealing with a new agency whose laws they did not completely understand

  John Moody

  Agency, Law, Evil

  John Moody, Gerhard Richard Lomer, Charles William Jefferys (1919). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”

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• I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms.

  Orville Redenbacher

  Agriculture, Indiana, Princeton

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• As a whole, the managers today are different in temperament. Most have very good communication skills and are more understanding of the umpire's job. That doesn't mean they are better managers. It just means that I perceive today's managers a bit differently.

  Jim Evans

  Jobs, Communication, Mean

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• Managers must have the discipline not to keep pulling up the flowers to see if their roots are healthy.

  Robert Townsend

  Flower, Roots, Discipline

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• No one respects the umpire's job more than I do; but, if I were a manager, I would probably be ejected three or four times a season fighting for my team.

  Jim Evans

  Teamwork, Jobs, Fighting

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• In life, you gotta do something. And the medical journals keep on saying if you've got a goal or some passion in life, you'll outlive all the other guys who - the bank manager that retired. They gave him a rocking chair and he rocked himself to death. So you gotta have a passion, whatever it happens to be. Whether it's this or something else, it doesn't matter, as long as it's a reason to get out of bed every morning, as my accountant of 50 years keeps on saying.

  James Wright

  Morning, Passion, Years

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• I'll tell you what makes a great manager: A great manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are. He forces you to have a good opinion of yourself. He lets you know he believes in you.

  Reggie Jackson

  Believe, Thinking, Knack

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• Professional managers, coaches, and players have a right to question an umpire's decision if they do it in a professional manner. When they become personal, profane, or violent, they have crossed the line and must be dealt with accordingly.

  Jim Evans

  Player, Umpires, Decision

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• I work hard to improve myself as a person - as a father, as a husband, as a manager. I'm always on that mission.

  Michael Johnson

  Husband, Father, Hard Work

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• During the final two weeks of training, our students work simulated game situations in which our staff members role-play as players, managers, and coaches. They are given immediate feedback following each camp game.

  Jim Evans

  Player, Games, Two

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