Managers Quotes - Page 33

• The Reichswirtschaftsministerium ('Reich Ministry of Economic Affairs') tells the shop managers what and how to produce, at what prices and from whom to buy, at what prices and to whom to sell. It assigns every worker to his job and fixes his wages. It decrees to whom and on what terms the capitalists must entrust their funds. Market exchange is merely a sham.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Jobs, History, Ministry

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• I've gone through managers like people go through shredded wheat. Nobody looks after you.

  Steven Morrissey

  Memorable, People, Looks

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• Land mines, torture equipment, cluster bombs, chemical weapons are weapons designed to inflict pain and death on human beings. Most victims are civilians, women and children. How can arms manufacturers, weapons designers, plant managers, politicians, who have families of their own whom they love, be so insensitive when it comes to the suffering of other human beings?

  Jose Ramos-Horta

  Children, Pain, Love Is

  Jose Ramos-Horta's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1996.

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• Companies die because their managers focus on the economic activity of producing goods and services, and they forget that their organizations' true nature is that of a community of humans.

  Arie de Geus

  Change, Organization, Focus

  Arie de Geus (2002). “The Living Company”, p.3, Harvard Business Press

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• That's great, tell him he's Pele and get him back on.

  John Lambie

  Soccer, Football, Get Him Back

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• Iain Dowie famously coined the phrase 'bouncebackability' to describe Crystal Palace's ability to come from behind. But this is a typical manager's idea, so optimistic. What fans are interested in is 'throwawayability': which teams toss away hard-earned leads? Now we know that 'throwawayability' exists because we proved last season that 'bouncebackability' exists (although, hilariously, Palace don't have it) and 'throw-awayability' is the flip side of it.

  Daniel Finkelstein

  Soccer, Football, Team

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• It's my opinion that a manager must have the right to manage and that clubs should not impose upon any manager any player that he does not want. I have been left with no choice other than to leave.

  Kevin Keegan

  Soccer, Football, Player

  "Kevin Keegan resigns as Newcastle United manager" by Tom Lutz, www.theguardian.com. September 4 ,2008.

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• The manager could not even talk to us at the interval. He said we were bad.

  John Terry

  Football, Said, Intervals

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• I think the next United manager is already at the club. It could be either Ryan Giggs or Ole Gunnar Solksjaer, who isn't at the club.

  Michael Gray

  Football, Thinking, Giggs

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• The modern joint stock firm is the outcome of innumerable decisions made by individual entrepreneurs, owners and managers. For these decision makers the choices among alternatives were limited and the outcomes uncertain, but almost always there were choices. Despite the variability of these individual decisions, taken cumulatively they produced clear patterns of institutional change

  Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.

  Taken, Choices, Entrepreneur

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• Roughly speaking, I think it's accurate to say that a corporate elite of managers and owners governs the economy and the political system as well, at least in very large measure.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Political, Economics

  Noam Chomsky, Carlos Peregrín Otero (2003). “Chomsky on Democracy and Education”, p.146, Psychology Press

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• The capitalistic social order, therefore, is an economic democracy in the strictest sense of the word. In the last analysis, all decisions are dependent on the will of the people as consumers. Thus, whenever there is a conflict between the consumers' views and those of the business managers, market pressures assure that the views of the consumers win out eventually.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Winning, Views, Order

  Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “On the Manipulation of Money and Credit”, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. : Free Market Books

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• A player does not have to like a manager and he does not have to respect a manager. All he has to do is obey the rules.

  Sparky Anderson

  Respect, Player, Doe

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• We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.

  Larry Page

  Decision, Management, Should

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• Understanding how to be a good investor makes you a better business manager and vice versa.

  Charlie Munger

  Decision, Understanding, Vices

  Muppets ask questions and experts answer, 25iq.com. September 21, 2012.

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• The job of a manager is to support his or her staff, not vice versa, and that begins by being among them.

  William Redington Hewlett

  Inspiring, Jobs, Support

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• As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there

  Ken Blanchard

  Business, Important, Management

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• I think there is a big and significant difference between being a leader and being a manager-leaders lead from the heart. You have to be analytical and flexible. Flexibility is one of the key ingredients to being successful. If you feel like it's difficult to change, you will probably have a harder time succeeding.

  Andrea Jung

  Success, Leadership, Heart

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• I'm not the manager because I'm always right, but I'm always right because I'm the manager.

  Gene Mauch

  Inspirational

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• Jim Fregosi was not only one of the most respected men in baseball, he was a great man. He was a player's manager. He had that special gift as a manager that made you want to get to the field and play your ass off for him. Jim Fregosi was the reason that 1993 was one of the most exciting years in Philadelphia sports history.

  Lenny Dykstra

  Sports, Baseball, Player

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• At the moment I'm just swallowing it all as part of the humiliation but I think - and this is aimed at my dear manager - one shouldn't humiliate players for too long

  Jens Lehmann

  Player, Thinking, Long

  "No twinkle toes, no imagination as England dance to wrong tune" by Paul Weaver, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2007.

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• Experience shows that after a disaster it is particularly difficult with the Americans, who appear to be quite cowardly despite their Rambo films.

  Ken Bates

  Soccer, Football, Rambo

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• I've been very fortunate and privileged as a player and manager - I've been successful and picked up a lot of knowledge and experience.

  John Toshack

  Successful, Player, Knowledge And Experience

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• We don't man-mark anybody. I have never, ever done it in 27 years as a manager and I would never do it.

  John Toshack

  Men, Years, Done

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• I don't like champagne, I don't smoke cigars, I haven't any real jewellery at all, apart from the 8 pieces of gold I picked up at Anfield, the most important relationship at a football club is not between the manager and the chairman, but the players and the fans.

  John Toshack

  Football, Real, Player

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