Managers Quotes
359 quotes by 283 authors
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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is…
— Felix Dennis
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I don't take investment advice from wealth managers. I have grown several businesses from scratch and amassed many millions from my publishing empire - why…
— Felix Dennis
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Fantasy sports went a long way toward developing the sabermetrics formulas used not only by oddsmakers but general managers in hiring players. So the amateur…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empire—a crackpot machine—that the specialists cannot comprehend and…
— Edward Abbey
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In the minds of great managers, consistent poor performance is not primarily a matter of weakness, stupidity, disobedience, or disrespect. It is a matter of…
— Marcus Buckingham
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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…
— Aldous Huxley
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According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Good teachers don't approach a child of this age with overzealousness or with destructive conscientiousness. They're not drill-masters in the military or floor managers in…
— Jonathan Kozol
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Accountants are in the past, managers are in the present, and leaders are in the future.
— Paul Orfalea
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A managed democracy is a wonderful thing... for the managers... and its greatest strength is a 'free press' when 'free' is defined as 'responsible' and…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Some people--Samad for example--will tell you not to trust people who overuse the phrase "at the end of the day"--football managers, estate agents, salesmen of…
— Zadie Smith
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The Opera ghost really existed. He was not, as was long believed, a creature of the imagination of the artists, the superstition of the managers,…
— Gaston Leroux
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Since Jimmy Carter, religious fundamentalists play a major role in elections. He was the first president who made a point of exhibiting himself as a…
— Noam Chomsky
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Managers tend to pick a strategy that is the least likely to fail, rather then to pick a strategy that is most efficient," Said Palmer.…
— Michael Lewis
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Managers help people see themselves as they are; Leaders help people to see themselves better than they are.
— Jim Rohn
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Remember the Golden Rule? "Treat people as you would like to be treated." The best managers break the Golden Rule every day. They would say…
— Marcus Buckingham
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They all attended Hester's church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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I say, 'Get me some poets as managers.' Poets are our original systems thinkers. They contemplate the world in which we live and feel obligated…
— Daniel H. Pink
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There are managers so preoccupied with their e-mail messages that they never look up from their screens to see what's happening in the nondigital world
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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Art is a form of asset. Hedge-fund managers who have made money fast should diversify into other areas.
— Michael Steinhardt
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