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• The most pleasure any manager can get is seeing everyday boys joining the Club as youngsters and growing into men and giving themselves a better social standing than they could ever have dreamed of previously.

  Jock Stein

  Boys, Men, Giving

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• The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why - Warren Bennis, Leadership Guru
  It is not so much that man is a herd animal, said Freud, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief

  Ernest Becker

  Animal, Men, Leader

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• When people ask me what I do for a living, I generally tell them 'I run a hedge fund.' The majority give me a strange look, so I quickly add, 'I am a money manager.' When the strange look persists, as it often does, I correct it to simply, 'I'm an investor.' Everyone knows what that is.

  David Einhorn

  Running, People, Giving

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• A manager's ability to turn meetings into a thinking environment is probably an organization's greatest asset.

  Nancy Kline

  Thinking, Organization, Environment

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• It's hard to get money to support your [non-profit] organization if you have no evidence. It's very much like the acting business: You need an agent and manager so you can get a job to get resources, but you can't get an agent and a manager unless people see your work.

  Sonja Sohn

  Jobs, Organization, People

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• I gave up music criticism because of the increasingly obvious conflict of interest. I couldn't say anything bad about the records when I might be meeting that person's manager backstage an hour later.

  Stephin Merritt

  Criticism, Say Anything, Records

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I'm sure there are managers who have had far greater financial success. But my companies such as easyJet have changed the lives of many people. We haven't just made flights affordable for a lot of people.

  Stelios Haji-Ioannou

  People, Financial, Flight

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• A lot of people don't trust the pitch. There's this kind of reputation it has for being untrustworthy and fickle and capricious and everything else, and those are words that big league managers and general managers and organizations aren't too fond of.

  R.A. Dickey

  Organization, People, League

  "Master of the Knuckleball". Interview with Jeremy Stahl, www.slate.com. October 29,2012.

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• My manager said the next best inspiration to heartbreak is travel, and it's true.

  Beth Orton

  Inspiration, Next, Said

  Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 2003.

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• Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager.

  Denis Waitley

  Priorities, Ultimate Goal

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• There are no managers like there used to be managers.

  Richard Manuel

  Used, Used To Be

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• Remember, benchmark performance -- beta -- can be had for virtually free; alpha is what active managers are paid to generate.

  Paul McCulley

  Remember, Beta, Performances

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• It really doesn’t matter how the manager is. If you make a mistake and the manager is calm, you still feel terrible for making that mistake. It helps to have a manager who can be cool but as an individual you tend to be in control of your own emotions.

  Joleon Lescott

  Mistake, Matter, Helping

  Interview with Chris Leo Moynihan, uk.askmen.com. April 8, 2012.

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• I went to drama school but it was very hard to get work until I was made assistant stage manager.

  Brian Blessed

  Drama, School, Assistants

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I wouldn't recommend working with your partner for everyone, because it's tough. There's got to be a really keen balance. You've got to know when to stop being the manager and become the husband. I can't go home and complain to my husband about my manager.

  Gloria Estefan

  Husband, Home, Balance

  "Singer-songwriter Gloria Estefan". The Travis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. September 27, 2011.

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• As a goalkeeper you need to be good at organising the people in front of you and motivating them. You need to see what's going on and react to the threats. Just like a good manager in business.

  Peter Shilton

  People, Good Man, Needs

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• Our belief in salvation through the market is very much in the Utopian tradition. The economists and managers are the servants of God. Like the medieval scholastics, their only job is to uncover the divine plan. They could never create or stop it. At most they might aspire to small alterations.

  John Ralston Saul

  Jobs, Servant Of God, Might

  John Ralston Saul (1999). “The Unconscious Civilization”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• The manager, in today's world, doesn't get paid to be a steward of resources, a favored term not so many years ago. He or she gets paid for one and only one thing: to make things better (incrementally and dramatically), to change things, to act - today.

  Tom Peters

  Years, World, Today

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• Here's what income and wealth inequality is about. Last year, the top 25 hedge fund managers made more than 24 billion, enough to pay the salaries of 425,000 public school teachers. This level of inequality is neither moral or sustainable

  Bernie Sanders

  Teacher, School, Years

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• If the technocratic class often invokes technology, it is because these inanimate objects can take on a trajectory of their own and so cover for the manager's inability to give leadership.

  John Ralston Saul

  Technology, Class, Giving

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Unconscious Civilization”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• The common wisdom is that ... managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.

  Tom Peters

  Motivation, People, Common

  Tom Peters, Nancy Austin (1985). “A passion for excellence”

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• An unsuccessful manager blames failure on his obligations; the effective manager turns them to his own advantage. A speech is a chance to lobby...a visit to an important customer a chance to extract trade information.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Important, Speech, Information

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• I'm so happy to be joining Arsenal, a club which has a great manager, a fantastic squad of players, huge support around the world and a great stadium in London.

  Alexis Sanchez

  Player, Squad, Support

  "Arsenal confirm the signing of Alexis Sánchez from Barcelona" by Ed Aarons, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2014.

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• The problem with the bank managers was not that they were malevolent but that they were mediocre.

  Christopher Caldwell

  Problem, Mediocre

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• Now, the engineers and managers believe with all their hearts the glorious things their forebears hired people to say about them. Yesterday's snow job becomes today's sermon.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Jobs, Believe, Heart

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Player Piano”, p.92, Dial Press

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