Sometimes being an underling meant managing up.

If you are only an underling, don't dress too fine.

— Horace

Basically, managing is about influencing action. Managing is about helping organizations and units to get things done, which means action. Sometimes, managers manage actions…

— Henry Mintzberg

“In many ways, life is about managing your delusions; keeping the ones that nourish and eliminating the ones that poison.”

— Steve Maraboli

The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their…

— Casey Stengel

Football management is about managing people.

— Sean Dyche

I've been asked to interview for many managing jobs, and I never said yes because I was never serious about it, and I thought…

— Cal Ripken, Jr

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

— Ian Holloway

Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust.

— Ivan Krastev

“If you can’t actually take time off without having to make sure everything is going right at the office, the thinking goes, you aren’t…

— Jeff Sutherland

The world isn't fast-paced, it's frenetic. People have to be managers of themselves. Time has been managing itself for 15 billion years; we have…

— Tony Buzan

I've seen people be effective, even among local teams, by offering something that improves wellbeing in a small way - people who get passionate…

— Tom Rath

My eight years in Detroit, obviously, were my most successful years managing. I think that Pittsburgh and Detroit are probably very, very similar. We…

— Jim Leyland

Many American TV actors employ agents, managers, business managers, publicists and stylists, and are now adding digital media manager to the list. Their job…

— Gina Bellman

I won't be managing the Mets. I am closing the door on managing the Mets and probably everybody else.

— Joe Torre

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

— Brett Young