Management Quotes · Page 127

We think the most important criteria for selecting an investment firm are the manager, team, and track record.

— John Paulson

A key focus of my administration will be the revitalization of Japan through a new form of capitalism.

— Fumio Kishida

The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I always wanted to do music but never really had the confidence to do it until my first manager George Lamb, who…

— Lily Allen

Then the administration tied it in to the regional dispute between Israel and its enemies, as if that's about international terrorism. No,…

— Chris Matthews

The [Ronald] Reagan administration picked up the rhetoric of the anti-nuclear movement; they said "Yyeah, you're right." We have to eliminate nuclear…

— Noam Chomsky

I much more enjoy the company of freedom fighters and justice campaigners than I do the company of hedge fund managers.

— Bill Browder

If someone says you're not strategic, try to figure out what that means and then tell him or her to go to…

— Richard Moran

You meet with a CEO or founder. You talk about sales, engineering, product management and give some ideas or suggestions. And the…

— Douglas Leone

“I have one simple goal for my book - to share my knowledge and experience to pay it forward by giving the…

— Lisa King

“U.S. Bancorp & Capital Trust is a licensed Investment Bank and Statutory Trust specialized in assisting entrepreneurs and businesses across the world…

— US Bancorp & Capital Trust

Creative tension is constructive. Its purpose is to bring out the very best in management so that senior executives can generate the…

— Punit Renjen

It is tragic that, under a pro-choice administration and a Democratic majority in Congress, harmful anti-choice policy will be the price American…

— Nancy Northrup

“Businesses are great structures for managing big projects. It’s like trying to develop the ability to walk without developing a skeleton. Once…

— Cory Doctorow

Avon is a unique place to work; we've got family-friendly policies. We have more senior women in high-level management than any other…

— Andrea Jung

We know with certainty that the Obama administration has re-defined 'militants' to include any military-age males they kill regardless of whether they…

— Glenn Greenwald

“Out of the blue, a veteran named Charles Wood, manager of a brush factory in upstate New York, sent Grant a $500…

— Ron Chernow

“I have since gathered data from more than five hundred individuals about their experience on more than one thousand teams. I asked…

— Greg McKeown

“It was a mild winter’s evening in ‘Japp’s Saloon and Speakeasy’, in the northwest corner of the only legal red-light area of…

— Christina Engela

Sometimes human beings are very much like bees. Bees are fiercely protective of their hive, provided you are outside it. Once you’re…

— Neil Gaiman

“The Swedes have coined the term 'management by perkele' to portray the Finnish managerial approach. Instead of collectively pondering all the possible…

— Tarja Moles

“While it cannot be denied that the state's enhanced role in the mid-twentieth century necessitated a larger bureaucracy, or that the officials…

— Simon Collier

... business training in early life should not be regarded solely as insurance against destitution in the case of an emergency. For…

— Hortense Odlum

My dad was always my manager as far as I was concerned, even when I had another manager. At times he let…

— Tanya Tucker

I'm a technical manager, but I don't have to take care of people. I only have to worry about technology itself.

— Linus Torvalds

There is just one exception to the FCC's no-throttling rule - if a company can prove that throttling is 'reasonable network management.'

— Marvin Ammori

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends…

— George Bernard Shaw

“Managing is allocating people and resources. Put the right people in the right job, give them what they need, and then get…

— Anonymous

I actually think it's better I started by being close to customers. That foundation early on helped me later when I went…

— Mike Duke

[on his former manager, Malcolm McLaren] Let's just say that if Malcolm breathes, it's too much for me to stomach.

— Johnny Rotten

As a manager you have to be positive to your guys, as a father to his sons, and that was one thing…

— Marco van Basten

I don't think I've still got things to show Carlo Ancelotti. He has seen me play a lot, even before he was…

— Michael Essien

Embarrassingly for Obama, it appeared that his administration had jumped the gun on banning the bullets.

— John R. Lott Jr

Whatever role I have had on the management side I pride myself on having done my best in the job. I have…

— Chris Hughton

“Sparky Anderson wasn’t just my favorite manager … he was my mom’s favorite manager.”

— Tucker Elliot

“Within each of us are two competing sides, a polarity of character. Only one leads to greatness.”

— Lolly Daskal

If you don't choose to do it in leadership time up front, you do it in crisis management time down the road.

— Stephen Covey

Management is about improving your relationship with the players and the journalists, about learning to read a game better so that you…

— Gianluca Vialli

I started backstage, making the tea, looking after the actors, doing stage management for two years.

— Rita Tushingham

Ford, as I understand it, had done away with the concept of regional management, and now they've re-introduced that in Europe, so…

— Anonymous