Top 1001 Managers Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Our capitalistic scheme in the latter years of the 20th century seems to have lost its way. We've had a "pathalogical change" from traditional owners capitalism where most of the rewards have gone to those who make the investments and assume the risks to a new and deeply flawed system of managers capitalism where the managers of our corporations our investment system, and our mutual funds are simply take too large a share of the returns generated by our corporations and mutual funds leaving the last line investors - pension beneficiaries and mutual fund owners at the bottom of the food chain.

I've had five managers, and I've played with all of them.

Managers live and die by their recruitment.

Flamengo usually contact managers who have won a lot of trophies.

All managers have someone they lean on and take advice from.

The outside-in discipline requires that you have an explicit customer-based reason for everything you do in the marketplace. Managers need to create what I call "customer pictures," verbal descriptions of customers that highlight the key customer characteristics and make those customers come alive. Although managers never know as much about customers as they want and need to know, the outside-in discipline requires that they construct customer pictures anyway, basing the pictures on whatever hard data they have plus hypotheses and intuition.

I'm happy that I have agents and managers that believe in me.

For managers to win the treble isn't easy.

I have been very lucky to get the managers in the world.

Clubs don't change managers unless there is something wrong.

I always think that women are the chaos managers of life.

People quit managers, not jobs.

These managers all know their onions and cut their cloth accordingly.

99% of fund managers demonstrate no evidence of skill whatsoever.

Managers have people second-guessing them all the time.

There's an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.

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

It's not my job to rate managers. My focus is on me and my team.

There're plenty of good people in football - mostly players and managers.

Guardiola is one of the best managers in the world.

Klopp and Guardiola are two sensational managers.

I don't need to explain myself. All the managers I've had know my quality.

People leave managers, not companies

Since Jimmy Carter, religious fundamentalists play a major role in elections. He was the first president who made a point of exhibiting himself as a born again Christian. That sparked a little light in the minds of political campaign managers: Pretend to be a religious fanatic and you can pick up a third of the vote right away. Nobody asked whether Lyndon Johnson went to church every day. Bill Clinton is probably about as religious as I am, meaning zero, but his managers made a point of making sure that every Sunday morning he was in the Baptist church singing hymns.

All the managers in the world are here to win games.

People would be a lot more skeptical if they understood that there is an incredible amount of chance in the results that you observe for active managers. So the distribution of outcomes is enormously wide - but that's exactly what you'd expect by chance with lots of active managers who hold imperfectly diversified portfolios. The really good portfolios contain a lot of really lucky picks, and the really bad portfolios contain a lot of really unlucky picks as well as some really bad ones.

Managers are the most creative people in the world.

If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to rotate twenty times as fast, everyone else would get twice as much done since all the managers would fly off.

Italian managers don't enjoy themselves at all.

Louis van Gaal is one of the most successful managers in the world.

You have to train managers to encourage their teams to be entrepreneurial.

The key to management is to get rid of the managers.

Accountants are in the past, managers are in the present, and leaders are in the future.

In Italy managers are judged simply by results.

People join organizations, they leave managers.

Managers can sometimes hold players back for their own benefit.

I called my managers, and they were like, 'What is Tijuana Jackson?'

Managers and players at different clubs, it's difficult to compare.

Many fine coaches never become great managers.

Pep Guardiola is one of the most respected managers in the world.

Sir Alex Ferguson is one of the best managers in football history.

A CEO's behavior has a huge impact on managers down the line.

The managers I've known all had their own specific way of working.

I think all managers have to be so demanding.

I don't like having managers.

Personally, I'm a fan of valets and managers.

I think managers see that I am honest.

Players only understand substitutions when they become managers.

It's always a nice thought to be coming against the best managers.

Good managers have a bias for action.

The inability to delegate is one of the biggest problems I see with managers at all levels.

The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.

Of course managers win ball games.

Managers control. Leaders create commitment.

Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.

An interesting difference between new and experienced stage managers is that the new stage manager thinks of running the show as the most difficult and most demanding part of the job, whereas the experienced stage manager thinks of it as the most relaxing part. Perhaps the reason is that experienced stage managers have built up work habits that make then so thoroughly prepared for the production phase that they [can] sit back during performances to watch that preparation pay off.

Managers are never appreciated when they're in the job.

The strategies that managers employ are at least as important as the facilities at their disposal.

Bad ballplayers make good managers.

Managers are the basic and scarcest resource of any business enterprise.