Managers Quotes - Page 28

• How many managers told me, 'Get a nose job. You're not pretty enough'? But I proved them wrong.

  Lea Michele

  Jobs, Noses, Enough

  "Lea Michele In Bloom". Interview with Marshall Heyman, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 3, 2011.

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• The great myth is the manager as orchestra conductor. It's this idea of standing on a pedestal and you wave your baton and accounting comes in, and you wave it somewhere else and marketing chimes in with accounting, and they all sound very glorious. But management is more like orchestra conducting during rehearsals, when everything is going wrong.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Somewhere Else, Ideas, Marketing

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• Basically, managing is about influencing action. Managing is about helping organizations and units to get things done, which means action. Sometimes, managers manage actions directly. They fight fires. They manage projects. They negotiate contracts.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Mean, Fighting, Fire

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• But when the 'Glee' audition came around, my manager literally had to talk me into it. I was petrified to sing in front of anyone.

  Cory Monteith

  Glee, Auditions, Fronts

  "O-M-Glee: Lea Michele and Cory Monteith". Interview with Lauren Waterman, www.teenvogue.com. November 14, 2010.

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• I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results had not been good, he lost a game on December 22 or 23. On Christmas Day, the telephone rang and he was sacked in the middle of our lunch.

  Jose Mourinho

  Christmas, Father, Years

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• I followed an Italian manager and it cannot be easy when you follow a manager who thinks very differently.

  Jose Mourinho

  Italian, Thinking, Easy

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• I'm not a defender of old or new football managers. I believe in good ones and bad ones, those that achieve success and those that don't.

  Jose Mourinho

  Football, Believe, Achieve

  "Look, listen and learn" by Simon Garfield, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2007.

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• In the same way that I had to follow an Italian manager here, I can imagine that it was not easy for an Italian manager to follow me at Porto.

  Jose Mourinho

  Italian, Way, Imagine

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• The Porto players were with me for two and a half years, they believed in me, in my methods, in the way we do it. The next day I go and a manager arrives who works completely differently.

  Jose Mourinho

  Player, Years, Two

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• The best managers out there at the moment are Pep Guardiola and Jose Mourinho but they are at other clubs - Real Madrid and Barcelona.

  Gary Neville

  Real, Clubs, Barcelona

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• There are a lot of idiot fund managers out there who add no value to the process at all.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Add, Idiot, Process

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• In his first term, President Barack Obama played a cautious manager navigating the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression and cleaning up the messes left by President George W. Bush in Iraq and Afghanistan.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Iraq, President, Firsts

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• I'm almost like three people. There's me the, Dolly, the person. There's me, the star. And then there's me, the manager.

  Dolly Parton

  Stars, People, Three

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• Baseball calls it a curve ball for a reason: you just don't know where some pitches will land. Your ace could get injured. Your golden glover could err. Your team could sit through a rain delay. Your manager could get ejected. Your bench must be broad and deep enough to overcome.

  Christine Pelosi

  Baseball, Team, Rain

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• Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.

  Tom Peters

  Excellence, Vision, Able

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• Good managers have a bias for action.

  Tom Peters

  Prejudice, Action, Management

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• Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, 'Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.' Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too!

  Tom Peters

  Leader, Principles, Peter

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• A manager uses a relief pitcher like a six shooter, he fires until it's empty then takes the gun and throws it at the villain.

  Dan Quisenberry

  Gun, Fire, Relief

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• We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn't always possible for women to become doctors or managers or insurance people. Let them be armed with a true picture of the way we want it to be.

  Anne Roiphe

  Children, Doctors, People

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• Football is made up of all kinds of conflict. In a dressing room, between players, between us and the manager, between us and loads of people who don't seem to matter. It's constant and harsh sometimes.

  Wayne Rooney

  Inspirational, Football, Player

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• I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.

  Wayne Rooney

  Coaching, One Day, Badges

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• Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Distance, Organization, Layers

  FaceBook post by Donald Rumsfeld from Aug 17, 2011

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• Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be the head of a large business, football manager or prime minister, but rather: bus driver.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Football, Years, Occupation

  "Passover’s Freedom Is Control Over Time" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2012.

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• I was taught you never, ever disrespect your opponent or your teammates or your organization or your manager, and never, ever your uniform.

  Ryne Sandberg

  Sports, Organization, Disrespect

  "Speech should be required reading" by Susan Crowell, www.farmanddairy.com. August 4, 2005.

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• At the end of the 1950s, I started working at a publishing company, Estudios Cor, as production manager, so returning, but not as an author, to the world of letters I had left some years before.

  Jose Saramago

  Years, Letters, World

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