Managers Quotes - Page 35

• After taking risk into account, do more managers than you’d see by chance outperform with persistence? Virtually every economist who studied this question answers with a resounding 'no.'

  Eugene Fama

  Persistence, Risk, Answers

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• It's nice to come into a town and be referred to as the manager of the Cleveland Indians instead of as the first black manager.

  Frank Robinson

  Sports, Nice, Black

  Biography/Personal, www.imdb.com.

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• No, I don't think my presence will cause an increase in black attendance at Cleveland. People come out to see the players. When do you see a manager anyway? When he's out on the field arguing with the umpires, making a fool of himself and you know you can't win, and when he brings out the line-up card.

  Frank Robinson

  Winning, Player, Thinking

  Biography/Personal, www.imdb.com.

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• I know a lot of people on the field - players, coaches, managers - are glad that I'm gone.

  Frank Robinson

  Player, People, Gone

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• Managers don't have as much leverage as they used to have. We can't really be the boss.

  Frank Robinson

  Sports, Boss, Used

  Biography/Personal, www.imdb.com.

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• I feel like I have reached the stage where I can no longer produce for my club, my manager, and my teammates.

  Joe DiMaggio

  Sports, Clubs, Teammate

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• All over the world, as governments retreat from their traditional duty to foster the common good and reconceive of themselves as mere managers of national economies, universities have been coming under pressure to turn themselves into training schools equipping young people with the skills required by a modern economy.

  J. M. Coetzee

  School, Government, Skills

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• Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success.

  Sparky Anderson

  Sports, Baseball, Simple

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• I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes.

  Sara Paretsky

  Writing, Years, White

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• The manager of a team is like a stagecoach, he can't move unless he has the horses.

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Horse, Team

  Pete Rose, Whitehall, Hadlyme & Smith (1979). “Pete Rose: my life in baseball”, Doubleday Books

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• A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit.

  Ted Lindsay

  Attitude, Hockey, Rumor

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• Barry Bonds was like Joe Namath or Muhammad Ali. He could make a statement and go out and back it up. Not a lot of guys can do that. In fact, managers usually cringe when guys make statements about what they're going to do. In Barry's case, I liked it. I think he did it on purpose to motivate himself. In a lot of ways, it's easy for Barry. I think he needs a little controversy around him.

  Jim Leyland

  Thinking, Guy, Littles

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• And you can tell that Britney Spears is struggling with who she is. I think she has a team of agents and managers who are saying, yes, push the envelope, kiss Madonna, take off all your clothes. And she’s doing that because she doesn’t want to sacrifice this enormous platform that she’s built. But at the same time, she is sacrificing herself and you can see that in her eyes when she talks.

  Christine O'Donnell

  Team, Struggle, Eye

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• Innovative efforts should never report to line managers charged with responsibility for ongoing operations. The new project is an infant and will remain one for the foreseeable future, and infants belong in the nursery. The 'adults', that is, the executives in charge of existing businesses or products will have neither the time nor understanding for the infant.

  Peter Drucker

  Team, Responsibility, Effort

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker (1985). “Innovation and entrepreneurship: practice and principles”

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• Some of the most flowery praise you hear on the subject of teams is only hypocrisy. Managers learn to talk a good game about teams even when they're secretly threatened by the whole concept.

  Tom DeMarco

  Team, Games, Hypocrisy

  Tom DeMarco (1997). “The deadline: a novel about project management”, Dorset House

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• What we are looking for is managers who are awake enough to alter the world as they find it, to make it harmonize with what they and their people are trying to accomplish.

  Tom DeMarco

  Team, People, Leader

  Tom DeMarco (1997). “The deadline: a novel about project management”, Dorset House

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• I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles.

  Scott Adams

  Jobs, People, Empowering

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• If you ask managers what they do, they will most likely tell you that they plan, organise, co-ordinate and control. Then watch what they do. Don't be surprised if you can't relate what you see to those four words.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Motivational, Thought Provoking, Watches

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• The boss must first distinguish between action information and status information. He must discipline himself not to act on problems his managers can solve, and never to act on problems when he is explicitly reviewing status.

  Fred Brooks

  Discipline, Boss, Information

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• Knowing how to do a job is the accomplishment of labor - showing others is the accomplishment of the teacher - making sure the work is done by others is the accomplishment of the manager - inspiring others to do better work is the accomplishment of the leader.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Teacher, Jobs

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• Managers assert drive and control to get things done; leaders pause to discover new ways of being and achieving .

  Kevin Cashman

  Leader, Inspire, Done

  Kevin Cashman (2012). “The Pause Principle: Step Back to Lead Forward”, p.4, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Why are baseball managers the only coaches who dress up like the players?

  Jay Mohr

  Baseball, Player, Dresses

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• The image-managers encourage the individual to fashion himself into a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.

  John Gardner

  Fashion, Business, Coins

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• There is a simple way of avoiding excess risk-taking by the managers of our financial institutions. It is to make it a crime ... had a crime for reckless management of a financial institution been on the books, Northern Rock and RBS would not have blown up.

  Paul Collier

  Book, Simple, Rocks

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• Cameron was able to get an inside look at professional football from the standpoint of athletes and agents and general managers that few people have ever seen.

  Leigh Steinberg

  Football, Athlete, People

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