Top 1200 Best Manager Quotes & Sayings

The agenda should be crafted by the employee who reports to the manager not the manager.

As a player or as a manager, you want to go to the biggest and best club.

In the end, as a manager or coach, you have to keep your heart pure and do your best as a manager or a coach.

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

I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.

Alex Ferguson is the best manager I've ever had at this level. Well, he's the only manager I've actually had at this level. But he's the best manager I've ever had.

I followed an Italian manager and it cannot be easy when you follow a manager who thinks very differently.

The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Finance is the art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager

At Barcelona, I had the best players ever, and they helped me to be a successful manager.

You can be the best manager in the world, but if the players don't trust you, it will never work.

I ended up meeting my manager because my sister was a receptionist at a management company. My manager is actually my same manager that I have today. That's how it started. I worked my way.

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.

My dad was always my manager as far as I was concerned, even when I had another manager. At times he let me go with someone else who he thought could take me to another level when he couldn't, and he was right. But they were in it for another reason. He was in it because he wanted to see me succeed no matter what, and he made decisions based on being a dad as opposed to a manager.

Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players, and you keep them in the right frame of mind, the manager is a success. The players make the manager. It's never the other way. Managing is not running, hitting, or stealing. Managing is getting your players to put out one hundred percent year after year. 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. Talent is one thing. Being able to go from spring to October is another. You just got caught in a position where you have no position.

A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Of course, when you play football yourself you can think you want to become a manager but it does not make you a good manager.

I can play either in the centre or wide. I can do whatever the manager thinks is best for the team.

I think the best thing you can do is be aware that as a first time founder you are likely to be a very bad manager.

It really doesn’t matter how the manager is. If you make a mistake and the manager is calm, you still feel terrible for making that mistake. It helps to have a manager who can be cool but as an individual you tend to be in control of your own emotions.

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.

What else does a manager do but push buttons? He doesn't hit, he doesn't run, he doesn't throw, and he doesn't catch the ball. A manager has twenty-five players, or twenty-five buttons, and he selects which one he'll use, or push, that day. The manager who presses the right buttons most often is the one who wins the most games.

You can have Guardiola as a manager, you can have Koeman as a manager, anybody as a manager, but the players inside the white lines win the game.

In sport, you only see the fighter, but it's teamwork. Without a good team, you will never be the best. In boxing, you have to work with the best coach, the best lawyer, the best manager, the best doctor. Exactly the same principle applies in politics.

I think, for every player, it is important he knows the manager believes in him, and it is important he has the confidence of the manager. That helps you to find the best form.

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

When the manager comes in he cannot say, 'This is something I want to do.' It is an environment that the manager creates and it happens over time.

You need doors to open, you need a chance - and you have got to have something, to take your chance when the door opens at the right time. My first port of call was to be a manager, then it was a successful manager, then it was a Premier League manager.

City is a fantastic club. Not only the players but the manager and all the staff welcomed me in the best way possible. I would say it was the best decision I could ever have made.

A pitching coach is a manager's best friend. He's handling 12 out of the 25 players on the team.

Mourinho is the best manager I've ever worked with.

I'm not a manager. I just try my best and see where it takes me.

All that I can say is that, from my point of view, our manager Arsene Wenger is an unbelievable man off the pitch and as a manager.

To be a good manager, a manager tries to constantly fight to reduce waste.

Sometimes, it's hard to separate manager mode from mom mode. I think, as our manager, my mom will get more emotional about situations than she would if she was just our manager.

Barcelona is one of the best teams in the world... so far, nothing has come to me, because if anything comes, it comes to my manager.

My manager said the next best inspiration to heartbreak is travel, and it's true.

All of you know how Pep Guardiola is as a manager... he is the best coach in history.

I proceeded to prove everybody right as to how bad an economics student I was by failing as an assistant manager in every theatre I went to that hired me, both as an assistant manager and as an actor. I lost money and tickets, and I couldn't keep track of anything. So eventually they fired me from assistant-manager jobs, but kept me on as an actor.

I think that the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example.

I have the best agent, manager, publicist, acting coach, and lawyer. Without them, I wouldn't have the opportunities that I've had.

Clearly in my mind, I have two distinct positions - owner and manager. So I am open to reviewing my performance as a manager as any other person in Sun Pharma.

The challenge of being a manager is to get the best out of everybody, not just the few who are clones of yourself.

If you go to Real Madrid, there's no time to improve as a manager. You don't have a chance to be a better manager, you already have to be the best.

Wenger is a top manager, he has shown that unbelievably. The thing I like is this manager can make an average player one of the best players in the world.

There's no one else I would rather have as my manager than my mom because I know that she has our best interests at heart. Sometimes, it's hard to separate manager mode from mom mode. I think as our manager, my mom will get more emotional about situations than she would if she was just our manager.

My manager has been my manager since I was 17, and he says that he's supposed to be smart for me when I can't do it for myself.

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.

I try to remind people, whether you have a growth manager or a value manager, you're going to go through cycles where you think you have a village idiot.

Man United, for all the doom and gloom, they're still the best club on the planet, they've got the best supporters and the best manager... United will always be United. To me, they are still the best and whatever disappointments they're having at the moment, don't worry, they'll bounce back. They always do.

For those who want to be a manager, the Premier League is the best place to work; at the very top.

Honestly, being a store manager was the best job I ever had.

My dad used to work in the theater as a stage manager, production manager, and lighting designer.

My tour manager, I met him at Boot Barn. He was selling me a pair of boots... and he said, 'I moved to Nashville to be a tour manager, and I need work right now,' and I said, 'Man, I don't even have a tour manager. So you can tour-manage me.'

If it's true you learn from your mistakes, Jim Frey will be the best manager ever

When you're a manager, we sometimes speak too much about tactics, but the most difficult thing for a manager is to get the best from his best players.

A manager's task is to make the strengths of people effective and their weakness irrelevant - and that applies fully as much to the manager's boss as it applies to the manager's subordinates.

Serie A was the best league in the world when Roma offered me the job of manager in 1984.

You could summarize everything I did at Apple was making tools to empower creative people. 'QuickDraw' empowered all these other programmers to now be able to sling stuff on the screen. The 'Window Manager,' 'Event Manager,' and 'Menu Manager.' Those are things that I worked on that were empowering other people.

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.