Managers Quotes - Page 32

• The manager sits down with me; I sit down with the board. We assess the success of the year. The manager assesses whose coming through the academy system. His job is to look at what is happening in European and world football.

  David Gill

  Football, Jobs, Congratulations

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• If a player is not interfering with play or seeking to gain an advantage, then he should be.

  Bill Shankly

  Soccer, Football, Player

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• When I was asked to join this club and I saw the quality and ambitions of the manager it was an easy choice for me to make.

  Ricardo Carvalho

  Ambition, Choices, Quality

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• Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Cutting, Goal

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• As a manager, you always have a gun to your head. It's a question of whether there is a bullet in the barrel.

  Kevin Keegan

  Sports, Gun, Bullets

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• The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Being A Leader, Asks

  Warren G. Bennis (1997). “Learning to Lead: A Workbook on Becoming a Leader”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be.

  George Santayana

  Time, Knowing, Eternity

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana: Soliloquies in England and Later soliloquies”

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• What's more important than who's going to be the first black manager is who's going to be the first black sports editor of the New York Times.

  Bill Russell

  Basketball, Sports, New York

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• There is a lot of difference at McDonald's between the guy in the back making the fries and the manager up front who is running the place.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Running, Mcdonalds

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• I'm washing lettuce. Soon, I'll be on fries. In a few years, I'll make assistant manager, and that's when the big bucks start rolling in.

  Louie Anderson

  Money, Years, Rolling

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• The primary skill of a manager consists of knowing how to make assignments and picking the right people to carry out those assignments

  Lee Iacocca

  Inspiration, Skills, Knowing

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• Analyzin' miss clairol, fendi'd down mascara on, assistant manager in paragon

  Raekwon

  Rap, Missing, Assistants

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• The monetary managers are fond of telling us that they have substituted 'responsible money management' for the gold standard. But there is no historic record of responsible paper money management ... The record taken, as a whole is one of hyperinflation, devaluation and monetary chaos.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Taken, Liberty, Gold

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• At a football club, there's a holy trinity - the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don't come into it. They are only there to sign the checks.

  Bill Shankly

  Soccer, Football, Player

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• The challenge of being a manager is to get the best out of everybody, not just the few who are clones of yourself.

  Tim Field

  Bullying, Challenges

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• My wife and daughters work. My campaign manager in 2005 was a working mother. I appointed 5 women to my senior staff as Attorney General.

  Bob McDonnell

  Senior, Daughter, Mother

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• The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions. Not me. I don't want to be a manager or a dictator. I want to be a leader-and leadership is ongoing, adjustable, flexible, and dynamic. As such, leaders have to maintain a certain amount of discretion

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Volleyball, People, Decision

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• I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house; but gradually went through all the Latin poets in those moments.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Happiness, Attitude, Latin

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.167

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• I've not seen an effective manager or leader who can't spend some fraction of time down in the trenches... If they don't do that they get out of touch with reality, and their whole thought and management process becomes abstract and disconnected.

  Jeff Bezos

  Communication, Reality, Leader

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• Make your top managers rich and they will make you rich.

  Robert H. Johnson

  Top Management, Management, Rich

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• At the moment we've only got 16 first-team players and my initials stand for Mick McCarthy, not Merlin the Magician (the new Wolves manager gets the excuses in early!)

  Mick McCarthy

  Team, Player, Magic

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• People who cost too much: manager, lawyer, publicist, label, music publisher.

  Roger McNamee

  Music, Powerful, People

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• Delegate it to the manager. You have this really good staff that will take care of everything for you. You just have to delegate it and trust it.

  Esther Hicks

  Letting Go, Care, Staff

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• The first time that I appeared on stage, it scared me to death. I really didn't know what all the yelling was about. I didn't realize that my body was moving. It's a natural thing to me. So to the manager backstage I said, "What'd I do? What'd I do?" And he said, "Whatever it is, go back and do it again."

  Elvis Presley

  Song, Moving, Yelling

  Interview Magazine (March/April 1972); later quoted in Jane Ellen Wayne "The Leading Men of MGM" (p. 406), February 17, 2005.

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• It seems to me as I reviewed the literature that, with few exceptions, the more confident were the prescriptions about how to behave with ethics and integrity, the further removed was the author from the life and work of the everyday manager.

  Steve Kerr

  Integrity, Everyday, Literature

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