A Quote by Henry Samueli

The owner's job is to hire the general manager. The general manager's job is to run the hockey team.

Henry Samueli

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Henry Samueli
American - Businessman
Born: September 20, 1954

My Dad sold automobiles as a general manager of a General Motors automobile dealership. He was a job creator. Everyone of those cars he sold he created a job for somebody on the assembly line.

Joe Biden

Your job, as a head coach and general manager, is to listen and not bypass any opportunity to help your team improve.

Josh McDaniels

One of the strong principles that I believe in is that you're always learning, whether you're a commissioner, a current general manager, a president or an owner, or somebody that's trying to become a general manger or a coach in the NFL.

Roger Goodell

One thing I learned in the NBA is that the No. 1 job of a general manager is to keep his job. They are only 30 positions where you make millions and hang around with basketball players all day.

Mark Cuban

It's just a natural progression. You're a player, then you're a coach, then you're general manager for the team, and then the next logical step for me and you would be [to become] team owner.

Zakk Wylde

Being an NBA general manager really is a lot of pressure. There's so much that goes into the job.

B. J. Armstrong

It is not the manager's job to prevent risks. It is the manager's job to make it safe to take them.

Edwin Catmull

If the owner goes inside a team and picks one player to play, I can no longer be the manager. Decisions must be made by the manager.

Carlos Carvalhal

My job is to hire the best and brightest employees and empower them to do their best work. As a manager, I am not a mind reader nor an expert at every job function. Therefore, it is incumbent on all hires to feel empowered to tell me what resources they need to do their job.

Jay Samit

If I had any interest in coming back to baseball, it would be as a general manager and not as a manager.

Lou Brock

Toughest job in baseball is the general manager. Second toughest is the hitting coach.

Ken Harrelson

A manager sets objectives - A manager organizes - A manager motivates and communicates - A manager, by establishing yardsticks, measures - A manager develops people.

Peter Drucker

I've never seen myself as a manager. As a manager, you have to put all your time into the job, and that would be difficult for me.

Dennis Bergkamp

I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.

Daniel Bryan

I am much more a pitch manager than a general manager. I am one of the few managers who is bored by the transfer market. Our task is growing the players that we have.

Maurizio Sarri

The most important relationship a head coach has on his team isn't with the other coaches, the owner or the general manager. It's with the quarterback. He's the one who runs the show on the field; He's the ultimate extension of his coach. If there isn't a high level of mutual trust between them, both coach and quarterback will be doomed.

Bruce Arians

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