Managers Quotes - Page 29

• Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form.

  Jessica Savitch

  News, Substance, Television

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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• The manager is to be blamed who distributes parts to his players which they are unable to act.

  Franz Schubert

  Player

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• Do business managers have a commitment to anything more than the success of their company and to making money? It would be hard to say that they do. Indeed, many business leaders deny that there is any conflict between self-interest and the interests of all.

  Peter Singer

  Commitment, Self, Leader

  "Putting ethics before profits" by Peter Singer, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2009.

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• I never answer if someone knocks on my door and only the band and my manager have my phone number. In any case my phone doesn't ring so I never notice it. I occasionally just walk past and pick it up to see if anyone's there.

  Robert Smith

  Past, Phones, Doors

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• I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Business, Talking, Directors

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• I was a VP of marketing, I was regional sales manager in fashion, and marketing director in communications and product development. I was always a corporate Fortune 500 girl.

  Patti Stanger

  Girl, Fashion, Communication

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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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• The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.

  Casey Stengel

  Success, Sports, Baseball

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• It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.

  Meryl Streep

  Funny Inspirational, Children, Food

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• Bureaucrats behave very differently than a private-sector manager because their motivations are different. Permanent bureaucrats, no matter how senior, worry about their next job.

  John Sununu

  Senior, Jobs, Motivation

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• Self-dealing, essentially, occurs when managers run companies to line their own pockets instead of those of the companies' owners. It's been a perennial problem in American capitalism and became a real dilemma when America moved toward a model in which corporations would be run by professional managers who had only small ownership stakes.

  James Surowiecki

  Running, Real, Self

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• I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, 'If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people.'

  Taylor Swift

  People, Records, Want

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• I don't think a manager should be judged by whether he wins the pennant, but by whether he gets the most out of the twenty-five men he's been given.

  Chuck Tanner

  Success, Winning, Men

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• My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Crazy, Guy, Theatre

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• Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.

  Alvin Toffler

  Inspirational, Management, Despise

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• My manager has a car payment, so I work every night.

  Carrot Top

  Night, Car, Payment

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• I like to think that I've been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product.

  Linus Torvalds

  Successful, Thinking, Linux

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• I'm a technical manager, but I don't have to take care of people. I only have to worry about technology itself.

  Linus Torvalds

  Technology, People, Worry

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• My manager came up with the idea of taking a Pro Tool rig out on the road to record every night and I thought it was a great idea. I felt like it would be good to record over a certain period of time and then take the best performances of that collection of recordings. It appealed to me that it wasn't going to be from just one location.

  Josh Turner

  Night, Ideas, Would Be

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• I hit a grand slam off Ron Herbel and when his manager Herman Franks came out to get him, he was bringing Herbel's suitcase.

  Bob Uecker

  Suitcases, Slam

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• A manager is an assistant to his men.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Men, Assistants, Risk Management

  Thomas J. Watson, Peter Petre (2013). “Father, Son & Co.: My Life at IBM and Beyond”, p.384, Bantam

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• The job of arguing with the umpire belongs to the manager, because it won't hurt the team if he gets thrown out of the game.

  Earl Weaver

  Hurt, Jobs, Team

  Earl Weaver, Terry Pluto (1984). “Weaver on Strategy”, Macmillan Publishing Company

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• A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.

  Earl Weaver

  Jobs, Smart, Simple

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• Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players.

  Earl Weaver

  Team, Player, Coaches

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• You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.

  Jack Welch

  People, Coward, Appraisal

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