Managers Quotes

The one who actually decided that I should keep my name was my manager, Erv Woolsey.

There's something wrong when hedge fund managers pay lower tax rates than nurses or the truckers

If you have managers reporting to managers in a startup, you will fail.

If you have managers reporting to managers in a startup, you will fail. Once you get beyond startup, if you have managers reporting to managers, you will create politics.

Your time as a manager is finite and valuable.

The ideological foundation of today's business schools is that economic control should be shifted out of government hands into those of financial managers - that is, Wall Street.

I have really good managers and agents who are very selective in what they send me.

The most useful and honorable science and occupation for a woman is the science of housekeeping. I know some that are miserly, very few that are good managers.

I write for people who are good money managers and want to know how to be even better stewards over their money.

Roughly speaking, I think it's accurate to say that a corporate elite of managers and owners governs the economy and the political system as well, at least in very large measure.

Remember, benchmark performance -- beta -- can be had for virtually free; alpha is what active managers are paid to generate.

What differentiates us from other money managers with a similar style is that we’re comfortable with new lows.

Business exists to supply goods and services to customers and economic surplus to society, rather than to supply jobs to workers and managers or even dividends to shareholders.

What managers decide to stop doing is often more important than what they decide to do.

In the knowledge economy everyone is a volunteer, but we have trained our managers to manage conscripts.

Managers tell you where you are, leaders tell you where you're going.

There's a manager (Billy Martin) I could play for.

I think that not relying too heavily on one bank and one bank manager is a good rule to learn.

There are no managers like there used to be managers.

I had a terrible manager once who described my career as 'spiraling downward.

Managers are to information as alcoholics are to booze. They consume enormous amounts, constantly crave more, but have great difficulty in digesting their existing intake.

Most founders have not managed people before, and they certainly haven't managed managers.

Being a manager is about getting into the minds of the people you represent.

Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers.

Millions have been taken from me. If you are not on top of it and you make a lot of money, and you trust business managers, then, yes, money will be taken from you.

I knew if I wanted to be a general manager, I was going to have to leave to work for another organization.

I've gone through managers like people go through shredded wheat. Nobody looks after you.

Because we weren't having success finding a CEO, our investors insisted that we hire these managers a temporary CEO and CFO. That didn't go great.

If that makes your lawyers or managers happy, well, good for them. You still have a lot to worry about.

My style is to keep folks in place who are good managers and want to win.

The common wisdom is that ... managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.

The hyperfast-moving, wired-up, reengineered, quality-obsessed organization will succeed or fail on the strength of the trust that its managers place in the folks working on the front line.

My non-career. My excuse for a career? Honestly, I never think about the word 'career.' I've had managers, the minute they say it to me, they look at me and just roll their eyes.

I'm happy that I have agents and managers that believe in me.

I don't have too many pests. My concept is this: I manage myself, and there's nothing wrong with people having managers.

Yogi Berra, Bill Lee, they were irreverent, poked fun at the stodgy owners and managers.

I always liked Casey Stengel as a manager because he seemed to have a grasp of so many things.

The managers at fault periodically report on the lesson they have learned from the latest disappointment. They then usually seek out future lessons.

It’s unfair to see managers buying brand new cars for themselves when the salaries of their workers still remain unpaid! Good leaders are not selfish thinkers!

Leaders are passionate about the Purpose, while Managers need to be passionate about the Results!

Motivating employees to work at their full potential is the main premise of successful management.

Managers can use power, money or certain circumstances to achieve short-term results. However, motivation is crucial for achieving long-term results.

Managers are people who know what they want.Leaders are people who get what they want.

What is the cost of replacing and bringing up to speed one of your managers, supervisors, or front-line employees who left because they were frustrated with your organization’s leadership?

Management informs. Leadership applies. The effective managers inform accurately. Effective leaders apply wisely.

Leadership is about taking steps while management is about drawing the map on the steps to take. Managers simply plan, leaders simply execute!

Some of the greatest advances happen when people are bold enough to speak their truth and listen to others speak theirs.

When people feel trusted, they'll begin to understand they are contributors--and you'll get great ideas and happy people.

Sometimes the best way to get other people to give up their egos is for you to give up yours first.

The natural result of utilizing different perspectives is that people are more engaged because they feel their opinions are important.