Managers Quotes - Page 27

• If you're a manager you can't get frustrated and be emotional. You have to continue to steer the ship, you can't let go of the wheel because who knows where it will go then.

  Kirk Gibson

  Letting Go, Emotional, Frustrated

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• Motivation aside, if people get better at these life skills, everyone benefits: The brain doesn't distinguish between being a more empathic manager and a more empathic father.

  Daniel Goleman

  Motivational, Father, Skills

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• My manager lives on my block; four of the apartments in my apartment complex of seven are people I know. It's a really close-knit community, and almost everyone on these few blocks are artists or graphic designers, because we live right on the cusp of a warehouse district.

  Grimes

  Block, Artist, People

  Interview With Durga Chew-bose, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 23, 2011.

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• I don't like writing straight-up thrillers. I like writing about families hurled into crisis and danger - soccer moms and regular dads and husbands who might have to rescue their daughters or who are, say, hedge fund managers and have one foot on the sidelines watching their kids and the other in nefarious cover-ups and conspiracies.

  Andrew Gross

  Soccer, Mom, Daughter

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• We originally developed 'The Client List' along with Lifetime as a TV movie - my manager and I became partners on the project. Then, we brought in Howard Braunstein on the project and produced it along with Lifetime.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Lists, Tvs, Clients

  "InDepth InterView: Jennifer Love Hewitt Talks THE CLIENT LIST, New Music Video, JEWTOPIA, Hollywood & More". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. March 16, 2013.

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• A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here's where we are going to go, here's why we need to go there, and here's how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor.

  Mike Huckabee

  Leader, Vision, Needs

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• There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog, waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there.

  Lee Iacocca

  Dog, Boys, Reality

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.54, Bantam

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• When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Teacher, Children, Parent

  "'For me, England is a mythical place'". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2005.

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• I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn't.

  LaToya Jackson

  Wife, Clients, Way

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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.

  LaToya Jackson

  Believe, Past, Talent

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• I've always valued the input of the people I love. So in the past, whenever I'd make a decision - what to wear to an event, whether to pursue a job opportunity - I'd consult those closest to me, like my mother, husband, or manager.

  Alicia Keys

  Mother, Jobs, Husband

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• Introverts listen better, they assess risks more carefully, they can be wiser managers. It's not for nothing that the Silicon Valley billionaires are so often the retiring types.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Retirement, Risk, Valleys

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• I always like to refer managers in corporate America as the renters of the corporate assets, not the owners.

  Henry Kravis

  America, Assets, Owners

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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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• To make flexibility work, it is not only necessary to change our attitude about who is a good worker and who is not, but we have to train managers at all levels to recognize the difference between the number of hours worked and the quality of work produced.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Attitude, Differences, Numbers

  "The Business Case for Workplace Flexibility: How Employers and Employees Can 'Have it All'" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 23, 2012.

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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.

  Frank Lampard

  Sports, Ideas, Special

  Interview With Rob Hobson, www.cfcnet.co.uk. August 10, 2005.

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• These managers all know their onions and cut their cloth accordingly.

  Mark Lawrenson

  Cutting, Onions, Knows

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• You know, I'm not in a hurry, and everybody else in Hollywood - particularly agents and managers - they're all in a hurry.

  Heath Ledger

  Hollywood, Agents, Knows

  Interview with David Michael, www.bbc.co.uk. September 25, 2003.

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• My manager introduced me to the 'Rise to Honor' team. I was curious about what it took to be involved in video games, a completely new form of entertainment to me.

  Jet Li

  Team, Games, Honor

  Interview with Douglass C. Perry, www.ign.com. February 5, 2004.

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• The best, most successful managers in the modern era are those who can keep a player happy even if he is not in the team. Given the size of the squads and the use of rotation nowadays, that's tougher than it's ever been.

  Gary Lineker

  Team, Successful, Player

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• Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.

  Bela Lugosi

  Actors, States, Capitalist

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• A smart manager will establish a culture of gratitude. Expand the appreciative attitude to suppliers, vendors, delivery people, and of course, customers.

  Harvey Mackay

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Attitude

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• We're living under the Obama economy. Any CEO in America with a record like this after three years on the job would be graciously shown the door. This president blames the managers instead. He blames the folks on the shop floor. He blames the weather.

  Mitch McConnell

  Jobs, Doors, Years

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• The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.

  Danica McKellar

  Giving, Cameras, Salary

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• And, we have no such thing as a budget anymore. Our manager freaks when we show him the bill. We're lavish to the bone, but all our money goes back into the product.

  Freddie Mercury

  Bills, Freak, Bones

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