Top 1200 Managing People Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I went to work in accounting at Arthur Andersen. At one point, it was the creme de la creme. I wanted to work there because it looked like the hardest thing I could find, and I loved being on a steep learning curve. I progressed quickly, and two years out of college, I was managing a small team of people.

I think I'm right-brained, incapable of managing my way out of a brown paper bag.

Running a government as chief minister and managing affairs of the nation are different things.

I really believe that cultivating creativity, as a general principle, is about managing your energy.

Managing yourself, writing and performing your own music can teach you a lot.

While I'm really proactive when it comes to managing my projects, I am a shy person.

The key to managing fear and life's tasks is to take the time daily to get organized.

Managing a club like Oldham has to be an all-absorbing, seven-days-a-week commitment.

One of the strongest lessons I learned in doing six months of work on retirement topic was how absolutely crucial the Social Security system is for the great mass of Americans. The research of professionals and our own reporting convinced me that many millions of people are not capable of effectively managing the finances for their own retirement.

We [people] have the power to destroy ourselves as well as the environment. As a species we love what I'd call brinks-person-ship, going right to the edge of disaster and somehow managing to pull back and recover. But my bet is still on the creative and playful and positive in the species. I think we will manage to survive and gradually turn things around.

My idea of managing is giving the ball to Tom Seaver and sitting down and watching him work.

I really do have rules for running and managing a business that have never been formalized before.

The hardest thing in leadership is managing your own psychology, and yet it's also the least talked about.

Part of the glamour of being a poet was always this long reach into the future. You knew you were managing time.

I spent my time chasing rucks and never managing to hit any, so I quickly switched out to the backs.

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

Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.

I can't be a manager, because I think it's too tough managing 30 players thinking in different ways.

Managing a league club is like making love to a mermaid... you should always be aiming for a top half finish

If I'm lucky, in a month from now, best-case scenario, I'm managing a Cinnabon in Omaha.

We will also have a more rigorous approach to professional development and managing unsatisfactory performance.

I think Marvel is really good at managing, and the thing I love about working with them is that you never feel hindered.

If you wish to succeed in managing and controlling others - learn to manage and control yourself.

I say this all the time: I've always been really good at managing my expectations so that I'm not let down.

Instead of command and control, managing the creative process is about facilitating and permitting.

Wait. You work for me?" "I prefer to think of it as managing your incompetence.

Scientists, especially physicists, we're presumptuous and think we can do everything better than everybody else. And one thing that I realized early is, I had some talent managing and organizing things - you know, some people are better organizers than others - but why should I reinvent the wheel?

Managing the power of choice, with all it's creative and spiritual implications, is the essence of the human experience.

The guy who says, 'I love the challenge of managing,' is one step from being out of a job.

I was managing editor for a while [in National Lampoon ], and it does cause business problems when your circulation goes up.

The toughest thing about managing is knowing your personnel and what it can give you under all conditions.

I've done a lot of deals, and I'm skilled at negotiating, managing personalities, and getting parties to the table.

Managing innovation better may be the only way out of the abyss called commodity hell.

Being a lady is a frightfully troublesome assignment, since it comprises mainly in managing men.

Every coach has his own ideas about managing the team and how it plays.

That more women are getting involved in politics - either by running for office, managing campaigns or voting - is a great thing.

Managing the creative process means selecting the best people and then letting them do their work. That means nurturing. It also means, from time to time, creating drama - even uncertainty - so that the creative environment has an edge to it, a charge, and does not run out of steam.

Why should a country have to take on itself a huge burden of managing a totally cash economy?

I am responsible for managing more schoolteachers' and firemen's money than anybody in the world. That's an enormous responsibility.

Earthly greatness is a nice thing, and requires so much chariness in the managing, as the contentment of it cannot requite.

The Mesh is about creating and managing what's perishable. It provides businesses with the ability to reach an audience of one, at a precise time.

If I had been busted for drugs instead of gambling, I'd still be managing the Reds and baseball would be paying for my rehab.

Western powers remain imprisoned by the idea that the world is a dangerous place, that it needs to be managed, and that they are called upon to do the managing.

Hunger, disease and poverty can lead to global instability and leave a vacuum for extremism to fill. So instead of just managing poverty, we must offer nations and people a pathway out of poverty. And as president I've made development a pillar of our foreign policy, alongside diplomacy and defense.

Kotter International is about leading large-scale change, not just managing it.

We know what we are. Our business is originating, distributing, and managing capital for individuals and institutions.

Doesn't matter if you're playing football, running track or managing a restaurant, you want to be the best at what you do in life.

In San Francisco, we have long faced serious challenges in managing the crisis of homelessness on our streets.

Peace, Inc. is sometimes as worrying as War, Inc. It's a way of managing public anger. We're all being managed, and we don't even know it.

Managing Liverpool? Yes, for sure, I have dreamt of that, but first I have to prove myself and prepare.

The affectionate farce I make of him ignores the ways I feel his lack of love for me. But we are managing.

Managing university finances is very tricky business. We're nonprofits. We're not supposed to accumulate large surpluses.

Managing in a foreign country will be a once-in-a-lifetime experience that doesn't come along that often

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

Successful charitable fund-raising has much in common with managing a business: It requires leadership, persistence, and creativity.

I had the best teacher there can be in man management or managing a football club.

The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.

Management, whether you're managing in the lower division or you're right at the top, is about getting the best out of what you've got.

It's not about scoring, it's having that presence out there and managing the game and getting everyone involved.

It's like I'm managing to achieve all this success in spite of my affliction ... Would you ever put that in the headline for a male star?