Managers Quotes

The system metaphor is a story that everyone--customers, programmers, and managers--can tell about how the system works.

Managers are trained to make incremental, programmatic improvements. They aren't trained to lead large-scale change.

I hit a grand slam off Ron Herbel and when his manager Herman Franks came out to get him, he was bringing Herbel's suitcase.

You have an Ice Cream Sundae, put the whipped cream on - that's what managers do.

Managers don't have as much leverage as they used to have. We can't really be the boss.

Nothing can be made except by makers, nothing can be managed except by managers. Money cannot make anything and money cannot manage anything.

Who is his manager? Milton Bradley.

Baseball is the only sport that lets the managers and coaches go out onto the field and rant and rave

We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies.

In some cases, managers and employees have secured pensions beyond their original base salary. It is wrong, the people doing it know it's wrong, and we have to put an end to it.

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 umpires instead of their teams.

Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.

The most important role of managers is to create environment in which people are passionately dedicated to winning in marketplace.

I never went round to loads of managers saying 'this is what I have, this is my product and I'm going to be famous so you'd better sign me up.' They came to me.

We also believe candour benefits us as managers. The CEO who misleads often in public eventually misleads himself in private.

Sir Alex Ferguson ceases to amaze me as a manager

We call it the 'Rule of Crappy People'. Bad managers hire very, very bad employees, because they're threatened by anybody who is anywhere near as good as they are.

Companies don't have one culture. They have as many as they have supervisors or managers. You want to build a strong culture? Hold every manager accountable for the culture that he or she builds.

All the great organizations have great managers at all levels who recognize where their culture is getting stronger and where it is getting weaker. There are always reasons why.

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 ways I am black and white.

Managers watch over our numbers, our time and our results. Leaders watch over us.

The job of senior management is to cultivate an environment where store managers can learn from the market and from each other.

'The system made me do it' is the perfect cop-out for today's managers.

I say get an education. Become an electrician, a mechanic, a doctor, a lawyer, anything but a fighter. In this trade, it's the managers that make the money and last the longest.

I'm open to any collabos if the price is right, just hit up my manager.

When it comes to fund managers and market strategists, this year's hero usually turns into next year's zero.

As system virtualization becomes mainstream, IT managers will find a greater need for disk imaging for disaster recovery and systems deployment,.

More than anyone else, he's (Hank Aaron) made me wish I wasn't a manager.

Luck is the great stabilizer in baseball.

Good managers have a bias for action.

Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.

The challenge of being a manager is to get the best out of everybody, not just the few who are clones of yourself.

During the Gulf War, journalists used to challenge government news managers and insisted they wouldn't just accept the official version of events.

I always like to refer managers in corporate America as the renters of the corporate assets, not the owners.

Managers who extensively plan the future get the timing wrong.

Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.

When results aren't good the manager gets the sack, that's the game.

That's all baseball is, is numbers; it's run by numbers, averages, percentage and odds. Managers make their decisions based on the numbers.

You know over 20 years I played for a number of managers and dozens of coaches. I don't know any of them that I didn't learn something from to help make me a better player.

Why are baseball managers the only coaches who dress up like the players?

Oh, the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes.

I don't envisage I will be captain again, but for two England managers, Steve McClaren and Fabio Capello, I was their first choice and I'm proud of that.

Cameron was able to get an inside look at professional football from the standpoint of athletes and agents and general managers that few people have ever seen.

All resources are not obvious; great managers find and develop available talent.

Managers are the most creative people in the world.

My University of Management will create managers who will float in happiness, success and fulfillment.

Managers, regardless of salary, should not be allowed to earn or use comp time. They are expected to work as many hours as needed to get the job done - especially at these salary levels.

Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form.

These managers all know their onions and cut their cloth accordingly.

Perhaps there really are managers who can outperform the market consistently - logic would suggest that they exist. But they are remarkably well-hidden.