Top 332 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Managers - Page 6

One of the things that is interesting about reading conspiracy theory is that much of what folks think is conspiracy is really many people acting in concert to make or protect their money.

If you want to sell a service, you have to be the first to believe that the service has value.

Rooney has to remember he is an icon and an example to youth.

No matter what information you have, no matter what you are doing, you can be wrong.

For quality and excitement the Champions League is better than the World Cup.

There is so many good people in Africa. And a huge talent among the football players.

The Department of Justice should resolutely bar monopolizing mergers in all markets, including telecommunications, but they are not in a position, as is the FCC, to promote new competition by selling the airwaves in auctions.

Xavi has won the Champions League three times, the European Championship twice and the World Cup. He's a real football player, a man who focuses on his football, hard work and training instead of the glamour, and that is why he has stayed at such a high level for so long.

Whether I'm 'head coach' or 'manager,' it doesn't bother me at all.

I'm not really into tactics.

First of all, most traders don't have a winning strategy. Second, even among those traders who do, many don't follow their strategy. Trading puts pressure on weaker human traits and seems to seek out each individual's Achilles' heel.

If I plug my estimates into the Magic Formula, and it comes out cheap, that's good.

You have to make sure you lead from the front and put a brave face on it during the tough times to bring people with you and get out of it.

We're principled in the direction we're heading, but we're not going to be stubborn.

England was the biggest coaching job that I had. You know, in England, the football is connected to all the things in a incredible way. I'm very proud to have been there.

If I'm thinking about work, it's easier to block the irrational thoughts out of my mind.

To fix the business, to bring it back to health, you must assimilate enough of the disruptive innovation to modernize the operating model without jettisoning your business model. This typically requires new leaders and definitely requires new (if temporary) rules. The CEO is the only person who can dictate the correct terms in a timely manner and maintain the enterprise's commitment to those terms for the duration of the rehabilitation effort.

Remember, it’s the quality of your ideas not the quantity that will result in the big money.

Italian players go to bed and they think about the training session of that day and the one the day after.

Value investing doesn't always work. The market doesn't always agree with you. Over time, value is roughly the way the market prices stocks, but over the short term, which sometimes can be as long as two or three years, there are periods when it doesn't work. And that is a very good thing. The fact that our value approach doesn't work over periods of time is precisely the reason why it continues to work over the long term.

Some teachers had been trained to work out at Southern because I carried two out there. I carried a lady down here from Palmer's Crossing, used to play piano, and Billy Carter.

When I was in Italy in the 90s, early 2000s, everybody wanted to go to Italy, all the players.

The problem with natural language processing and the thing that really holds the technology back, is that when it crashes and burns, it's horrific. I think we would be in a position to really take a serious look at it, once two things happen. The interesting thing about a dialogue-choice system is that we've devoted so much into all kinds of other systems for processing, and dialogue choices use zero processing. So suddenly, if you want to have a great natural language processor, you need to dial down your graphics to make it work.

A rolling loan gathers no loss.

Facebook has focused on the conversation, but not really on absorbing the Web into its walled garden.

When you get sacked, everybody thinks: 'He's a football manager, he'll get lots of money,' but you still get sacked, which for me is a slur on you, it degrades you.

If I am going to write a book, which I have done, I think we have to get it right - whatever has been written about me, about football, about my private life.

We are busy surviving, herding, fixating on what just happened, and being overconfident!

Try to learn as fast as you can from the wizards and then steal what you can appropriate from them and use it to modernize your existing business model (without disrupting it).

Man-management far outweighs sports science.

When you lose a game you still get as disappointed, 24 years on. Losing a game of football, even when you have played well, kills you.

We believe that war is an inevitable consequence of the current global economic situation.