Managers Quotes

Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.

I love the ability to work with very good managers, and to provide the right incentives for them, and truly become a partner with that management, and make that management take a long view.

Managers tend to treat organizations as if they are infinitely plastic. They hire and fire, merge, downsize, terminate programs, add capacities. But there are limits to the shifts that organizations can absorb.

My style is to keep folks in place who are good managers and want to win.

The problem was the journalists who also did not understand much of my music, but they wrote about it. I think you fell into the usual trap laid out by parts of the press and other writers: that the poor musician has always to fight the evil companies and managers.

More and more, in any company, managers are dealing with different cultures. Companies are going global, but the teams are being divided and scattered all over the planet.

Why are baseball managers the only coaches who dress up like the players?

Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.

We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn't always possible for women to become doctors or managers or insurance people. Let them be armed with a true picture of the way we want it to be.

We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies.

I've never wanted to play bank managers and real people particularly.

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

I know a lot of people on the field - players, coaches, managers - are glad that I'm gone.

As a whole, the managers today are different in temperament. Most have very good communication skills and are more understanding of the umpire's job. That doesn't mean they are better managers. It just means that I perceive today's managers a bit differently.

The most cowardly thing in the world is blaming mistakes upon the umpires. Too many managers strut around on the field trying to manage the umpires instead of their teams.

I lost agents and managers because I turned down big movies that were smutty.

Cameron was able to get an inside look at professional football from the standpoint of athletes and agents and general managers that few people have ever seen.

I don't like writing straight-up thrillers. I like writing about families hurled into crisis and danger - soccer moms and regular dads and husbands who might have to rescue their daughters or who are, say, hedge fund managers and have one foot on the sidelines watching their kids and the other in nefarious cover-ups and conspiracies.

You know, I'm not in a hurry, and everybody else in Hollywood - particularly agents and managers - they're all in a hurry.

The owners and managers were too stupid to realize we had brains.

Too many managers manage by what the postgame press conference is going to be.

We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.

Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.

Managers have people second-guessing them all the time.

There are no managers like there used to be managers.

Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.

The best, most successful managers in the modern era are those who can keep a player happy even if he is not in the team. Given the size of the squads and the use of rotation nowadays, that's tougher than it's ever been.

Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.

The managers are getting paid very well by their respective clubs to do a job for their clubs not the country they are working in.

Qualified software engineers, managers, marketers and salespeople in Silicon Valley can rack up dozens of high-paying, high-upside job offers any time they want, while national unemployment and underemployment is sky high.