Managers Quotes

359 quotes by 283 authors

Brian Walker and David Salt have written a thoughtful and powerful book to help resource users and managers put resilience thinking into practice and aim… — Elinor Ostrom
Managers who extensively plan the future get the timing wrong. — Shona Brown
A manager has his cards dealt to him and he must play them. — Miller Huggins
We are long-term players in the industry. We're not just crazy and emotional. We try to be logical business managers. — Frank Lorenzo
While our managers debated what steps to take to address the sales and cash-flow crisis, I began to lead week-long employee seminars in what we… — Yvon Chouinard
I took a dozen of our top managers to Argentina, to the windswept mountains of the real Patagonia, for a walkabout. In the course of… — Yvon Chouinard
What has been the most rewarding moment in your decades of entrepreneurship? Our last annual managers meeting. I gave my motivational talk and then I… — Ken Hendricks
If we are to have a stabilized market demand, selling pressure should be maintained . . . perhaps increased . . .at the first sign… — Paul G. Hoffman
In the knowledge economy everyone is a volunteer, but we have trained our managers to manage conscripts. — Peter Drucker
The leader is the one who climbs the tallest tree, surveys the entire situation, and yells, 'Wrong jungle!' ... Busy, efficient producers and managers often… — Stephen Covey
There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each… — Aristotle
I was often misquoted. I was supportive of my managers, even though they all may not think so. — George Steinbrenner
Employees who are controlled cannot respond caringly, you need superior knowledge and real leadership, not management. Because of this we specifically developed a selection process… — Horst Schulze
Sales management is the most critical - and underappreciated - role in the sales force. Companies struggle to find something powerful to train sales managers… — Jason Jordan
We ask sales managers what they would do if they had an extra hour in their week. They always say they would get out in… — Jason Jordan
While most managers spend their time attempting to predict the future accurately - and while that's valuable - the best managers are able to generate… — Werner Erhard
You can't make theater happen without actors. The actor is the central ingredient in making theater happen. Audiences may come to theaters to see the… — Laurence Sterne
An interesting difference between new and experienced stage managers is that the new stage manager thinks of running the show as the most difficult and… — Laurence Sterne
Managing an advertising agency isn't all beer and skittles. After fourteen years of it, I have come to the conclusion that the top man has… — David Ogilvy
Managers who master the hammer and expect all problems to behave like nails find organizational life confusing and frustrating. — Lee Bolman

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