Top 332 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Managers - Page 3

One of the important things, which I wrote on yellow post-it notes and stuck on the wall during therapy, was that we are the product of our own thoughts.

To be a manager, you have to perform always. You cannot live in history. It's now and tomorrow that counts.

One market paradigm that I take exception to is: Buy low and sell high. I believe far more money is made by buying high and selling at even higher prices.

With QE3, we are essentially being bought out with our own money...and unemployment is being used to facilitate this process in a very clever manner. Monetary inflation is currently being offset by labor deflation. The way you avoid collapse is by printing money and stealing assets. The way you avoid inflation is with labor deflation.

I think a problem for most people in a fiduciary capacity is to eliminate self and greed and all those things so that they can actually be in a fiduciary capacity where the artist comes first or the client, whoever the client happens to be.

I was lucky with my parents, for my mom and my dad particularly, much more than my mom, who was very compassionate and loving to everyone. And then, as I got into my career, I started and other people started to realize that I was good at it.

This is typical Mourinho. Rashford is the biggest talent you have in England. He needs games. He should be playing every week. Instead, he buys Lukaku, he buys Sanchez.

I've always been a Liverpool fan.

If you diversify, control your risk, and go with the trend, it just has to work.

When I was younger I was a nightmare. I let people down. I resigned from Sheffield United because things were promised to me that weren't forthcoming. I let people down when I was younger, certainly in management.

Buying gold is just buying a put against the idiocy of the political cycle. It's that simple.

The character of the English players is very good. It is a working character. If they are on the pitch they like to work.

I hope Darren Moore is a good manager, when he was my captain at Portsmouth, he could lead battleships out of water, he was that good.

I had nice years at Ajax, wonderful years with Milan, and won something with the national team.

If I don't get enough attention, I want more attention. If I have too much attention, I want it to stop. It is not always easy to understand myself.

There is a new generation coming through at Ajax with Justin Kluivert, Donny van de Beek, Frenkie de Jong and Matthijs de Ligt.

I've come from a fantastic, working class area and to actually have the fortune to be given that opportunity to get out of that has never left me. I was determined from the first day I left to make the most of it and that will never stop.

My worst moment was in 2006, in Germany, without any doubt! The defeat in the knockout phase of the World Cup 2006 against Portugal.

There are moments when I miss England because it was a great time. But it's nice to be back home and working for Schalke, one of the biggest clubs in Germany.

Throughout my trading career, I have continually witnessed examples of other people that I have known being ruined by a failure to respect risk. If you don’t take a hard look at risk, it will take you.

The age between seven and 14 is so important. The basic techniques are in that, and afterwards it's mentality. Tactically, between seven and 14 or six and 14, they have to have good coaches and understand the basic things of football: control the ball, know where the ball is, those kinds of things.

The biggest problem is typically overly ambitious expectations combined with undercapitalization.

As a buying group, visionaries are easy to sell but very hard to please. This is because they are buying a dream - which, to some degree, will alwasy be a dream.

At Inter, we spent so much time dealing with politics, with agents. That took up 50 percent of my time, when it should have been 10 percent.

Your mind is still the fastest weapon. You can run and run but you must be smart.

You definitely need the right balance. You need players who are technically strong, but also tactically aware players, fighters, creative players. You need big players as well as agile ones.

I think investment psychology is by far the more important element, followed by risk control, with the least important consideration being the question of where you buy and sell.

The important thing is not winning, but that we think in a winning way.

Leonardo left Milan on bad terms, but I did not.

I don't often know where my ideas come from. Maybe it's the fact that I'm obsessively regimented in my analysis, borderline autistic. But whether it's bond selection or asset allocation, we can do it better than just about anybody around.

I will give always my best. I will continue that until the end.

The more confidence I have in each one of my stock picks, the fewer companies I need to own in my portfolio to feel comfortable.

There’s a virtuous cycle when people have to defend challenges to their ideas. Any gaps in thinking or analysis become clear pretty quickly when smart people ask good, logical questions. You can’t be a good value investor without being an independent thinker – you’re seeing valuations that the market is not appreciating. But it’s critical that you understand why the market isn’t seeing the value you do. The back and forth that goes on in the investment process helps you get at that.

Value investing strategies have worked for years and everyone's known about them. They continue to work because it's hard for people to do, for two main reasons. First, the companies that show up on the screens can be scary and not doing so well, so people find them difficult to buy. Second, there can be one-, two- or three-year periods when a strategy like this doesn't work. Most people aren't capable of sticking it out through that.

The most important thing is that I'm enjoying myself.

David Silva is not physical but he is still one of the best players in the Premier League because he is a smart thinker.

Coaching in Major League Soccer and living in Atlanta has been a wonderful experience and a welcome new challenge.

But no one knows what happens after, and for sure it would be great to be back in the Premier League at one time in the future.

When I heard the word 'cancer,' I was in bits. I panicked, I think everyone does, it was very scary, horrible. Thankfully, the melanoma does not appear to have spread. They'll continue to monitor me, I've got scars on my face, on my back. Good thing I was never worried about my good looks.

It is always sad when a player has to drop out injured.

I have been animated all my life on the bench.

Word-of-mouth marketing is a crucial component of organic growth for startups and one of the primary ways that Weebly has grown to over 15 million customers.

Every league starts with homegrown players.

If Mauricio Pochettino can get the sack, then we all can because he did a wonderful job at Tottenham.

It is one of the glories of America that we move to higher levels of awareness.

I wait until an investment idea is so good, it hits me over the head like an anvil.

If you spend your energies looking for and analysing situations not closely followed by other informed investors, your chance of finding bargains greatly increases.

I suppose it's better to be a lucky manager than a good one.

Maybe it's like this: If you haven't done all that much right in the previous season, than perhaps you are more open to change.

If you ask why start-ups outperform established enterprises when it comes to catching the next wave, the answer is that they are not conflicted. Everyone is rowing in the same direction. That is never the case in a company that has a portfolio of businesses at different stages in their maturity. So the key to winning there has to be to "zone out" the conflicts - sort of like sending quarrelling children each to their own room.

Does it feel like I can't win? Sometimes.

The secret to investing is to figure out the value of something - and then pay a lot less.

Local television and local TV news isn't telling the voters about local candidates.

Customers and contracts are like water and a sieve. The customer will find the largest hole and slide through it.

Sustaining innovation is the lifeblood of any enterprise. It is the time when we capitalize upon, and recover from, all the disruptive change prior. Most of the operating profits in the world come from sustaining innovation. Much of the market capitalization gains, on the other hand, come from disruptive innovations.

Karma is God's girlfriend.

Having someone breathing on your neck can be good for you.

High expectations and belief in people leads to high performance so very often belief creates fact.

If we can't face it, God can't fix it.

I wasn't particularly good at showing my emotions and I kept things inside. It's not good. Now I realize that whenever I want to cry, I cry.