Managers Quotes
359 quotes by 283 authors
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You don't treat the so-called little people poorly, because we don't have any little people here! The trainers, the managers, the secretaries, the people who…
— Unknown Author
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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…
— Marc Andreessen
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The way I was brought up by my parents and guided through my football life by the influences of various managers means that in some…
— Stuart Pearce
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There are only two kinds of managers. Winning managers and ex-managers.
— Gil Hodges
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I was playing organ at a silent movie house at Harlem and they'd be showing some death scene on the screen. Likely as not, I'd…
— Fats Waller
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People and their managers are working so hard to be sure things are done right, that they have hardly have time to decide if they…
— Stephen Covey
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Observing many companies in action, I am unable to point to a single instance in which stunning results were gotten without the active and personal…
— Joseph M. Juran
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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…
— Bill Klem
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The strategies that managers employ are at least as important as the facilities at their disposal.
— Anthony Stafford Beer
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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…
— Andy Hertzfeld
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I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that’s cliche, I don’t know if managers think about that…
— Aaron Levie
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Bad sales managers push two buttons: 'more' and 'panic.' Great sales managers have one more button to push: the 'how'.
— Chris Lytle
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New sales managers are the forgotten rookie - they were pros at selling, but all of a sudden they're a rookie at management.
— Chris Lytle
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The best advice I got throughout my career was understanding what my current managers' pains and challenges are - it's not always just about hitting…
— Jim McDonough
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Today, a skilled manager makes more than the owner. And owners fight each other to get the skilled managers.
— Mikhail Khodorkovsky
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Empowerment is what managers do to people. Engagement is what managers do with people.
— Henry Mintzberg
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But I like to think that a lot of managers and executives trying to solve problems miss the forest for the trees by forgetting to…
— Gordon Bethune
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Too many managers manage by what the postgame press conference is going to be.
— John Kruk
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It is very difficult to make a vigorous, plausible, and job-risking defense of an estimate that is derived by no quantitative method, supported by little…
— Fred Brooks
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This is one of the innovator’s dilemmas: Blindly following the maxim that good managers should keep close to their customers can sometimes be a fatal…
— Clayton Christensen
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