Browsing Topic Best Managers Quotes

The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.

A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.

They broke it to me gently. The manager came up to me before a game and told me they didn’t allow visitors in the clubhouse.

There is a kind of classlessness in the theater. The rehearsal pianist, the head carpenter, the stage manager, the star of the show-all are family.

No manager ever won no ballgames.

I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, ‘If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people.’

Managers and investors alike must understand that accounting numbers are the beginning, not the end, of business valuation.

The primary skill of a manager consists of knowing how to make assignments and picking the right people to carry out those assignments

The score is high and very brutal but does not reflect what we saw on the pitch. The first shot on goal was a goal. The second was an own goal. The third was straight after half-time. They defend like mad and they catch us on the break.

Work on your strong points because they are what made you.

He’s not fit, either physically or biomechanically.

Real benefits come when managers begin to understand the profound difference between ‘cost cutting’ and ‘eliminating the causes of costs’

It’s a strange atmosphere always over there, it is darker and less glamorous, and you don’t feel as high. It is a different kind of test – can you raise your level in a less exciting environment and perhaps still a very difficult one?

If he’d been English or Swedish, he’d have walked the England job.

The journalist’s first allegiance is to those who receive the work. Although there is no doubt that many owners and business managers of news organizations also have a deep allegiance to the public, that allegiance is necessarily alloyed with their concern for their own point of view or for the bottom line.

The Macintosh having shipped, his next agenda was to turn the rest of Apple into the Mac group. He had perceived the rest of Apple wasn’t as creative or motivated as the Mac team, and what you need to take over the company are managers, not innovators or technical people

Of course, as manager, the selection of the team is very much one of the biggest responsibilities I personally take, but I come to that decision thanks to advice and support of the people around me.

The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees, to create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.

I’ve been told I’m a good midcareer manager.

I’ve told him to cut off his ponytail. I think it makes him less aerodynamic.

I Wanted To Sign Scholes For Killie But Fergie Burst Out Laughing

Players only understand substitutions when they become managers.

Everybody – even huge movie stars – have downs. That’s just how it is. The work ebbs and flows. My manager and I were saying, ‘Let’s remember that in 2013 we were soooo busy.’ So whenever it is that we’re not, maybe it’ll come back again. Maybe it won’t. But you’ve gotta love the ride.

Life is the same. It would be the same thing if I were still working at Starbucks, having to deal with a manager, and a shift manager. This is a job.

I became a manager very young. My first sous chef job I was, maybe, 25. It was a bit too early for me. But it’s on-the-job training. You really just get stuck in there and it’s trial and error. You learn by your mistakes, and hopefully you don’t keep making them. And if you do, you just keep trying to fix it.

The NBA has a voice that’s why they have a lockout. The NFL has a voice that’s why they had a lockout. Boxing is the only sport that’s individually represented the individual people – Managers, Promoters and Boxers.

I never look at salaries. I have no aspirations of being a general manager or anything like that, I want to coach. For me there is no dollar signs on the towels, no dollar signs on their jerseys, I will make the decisions based on who is going to make us win. For me, that is my only priority.

If I were on the field, I’d want the manager sticking up for me. Sometimes players are dead wrong, ranting and raving, but you stick up for them. They appreciate that.

To not apologize for the behavior of the players to another manager is unthinkable. It’s a disgrace, but I don’t expect Wenger to ever apologize…he’s that type of person.

I have only been here since 1996 but between 1966 and 1996 England had thirty years without foreign players and didn’t win any more competitions in that time.

‘Drive’ came to me because the casting director knew my manager and called and said, ‘You’ve always talked to me about Albert wanting to play the heavy. I think he should read this.’ My ears just perked up.

I go by records and Bob Paisley is the No 1 manager ever!

As a business owner or manager, you know that hiring the wrong person is the most costly mistake you can make.

We were developing an innovative Personal Information Manager called Chandler but a couple years ago I took off from that to do a project writing down my memoirs essentially, reminiscing about the development of the Macintosh.

I went to drama school but it was very hard to get work until I was made assistant stage manager.