Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. — Mark Twain
As a goalkeeper you need to be good at organising the people in front of you and motivating them. You need to see what's going on and react to the threats. Just like a good manager in business. — Peter Shilton
Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them. — Paul Hawken
Silence is a source of great strength.
Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager. — John Taylor Gatto
A leader is best when people barely know that he exists. — Witter Bynner
Without dignity our lives are only blinks of duration. But if we manage to lead a good life well, we create something more. We write a subscript to our mortality. We make our lives tiny diamonds in the cosmic sands. — Ronald Dworkin
The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided. — Casey Stengel
More Great Managers Quotes
The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do. — Michael Porter
The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things. — Ronald Reagan
Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult-once we truly understand and accept it-then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters. — M. Scott Peck
Love means attention, which means looking after the things we love. We call this stable management. — George H. Morris
Organization doesn't really accomplish anything. Plans don't accomplish anything, either. Theories of management don't much matter. Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved. Only by attracting the best people will you accomplish great deeds. — Colin Powell
Pressure is something you feel when you do not know what you are doing. — Chuck Noll
Managers help people see themselves as they are; Leaders help people to see themselves better than they are. — Jim Rohn
How did it get so late so soon? — Dr. Seuss
Artists who are able to continually create great works throughout their lives often manage to preserve these childlike qualities. Practicing a way of being that allows you to see the world through uncorrupted, innocent eyes can free you to act in concert with the universe’s timetable. — Rick Rubin
Great vision without great people is irrelevant. — James C. Collins
Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones. — Oliver Goldsmith
GNOSTICS, n. A sect of philosophers who tried to engineer a fusion between the early Christians and the Platonists. The former would not go into the caucus and the combination failed, greatly to the chagrin of the fusion managers. — Ambrose Bierce
Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great. — James C. Collins
That's great, tell him he's Pele and get him back on. — John Lambie
The sport of wrestling is a tremendous builder of the values and characteristics which are needed to succeed in any walk of life. Much of what I have managed to achieve in life I owe directly to the years I spent in the wrestling room, as an athlete and a coach. Wrestling is a great educational tool. — Dennis Hastert
Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent. — Carl Sandburg
The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience. — Leo Tolstoy
The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake. The best people don't need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed. — James C. Collins
To win in the marketplace you must first win in the workplace. — Douglas Conant
The key is in not spending time, but in investing it. — Stephen Covey
Many of the great financial disasters we’ve seen have been failures to foresee and manage risk. — Howard S. Marks
I looked back on the roaring Twenties, with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby' and the pre-Code films as a party I had somehow managed to miss. — Hugh Hefner
A decade ago young people en masse began declaring themselves as Yugoslavs. It was a form of rising Yugoslav nationalism, which was a reaction to brotherhood and unity and a feeling of belonging to a single socialist self-managing society. This pleased me greatly. — Josip Broz Tito
The only thing that matters is the theater! — Lily Rabe
The best managers figure out how to get great outcomes by setting the appropriate context, rather than by trying to control their people. — Reed Hastings
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. — Paul Valery
He opened the Premier League to the world in a different level to what any other manager has done. — Mikel Arteta
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. — Hector Berlioz
I'm so happy to be joining Arsenal, a club which has a great manager, a fantastic squad of players, huge support around the world and a great stadium in London. — Alexis Sanchez
If you always do what you did, you'll always get what you got. — Marian Diamond
What makes a scientist great is the care that he takes in telling you what is wrong with his results, so that you will not misuse them. — W. Edwards Deming
Leadership is defined by results not attributes. — Peter Drucker
Make use of time, let not advantage slip. — William Shakespeare
If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader. — Dolly Parton
Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They are, if you want to put it in positive terms, great educational institutions. If you want to put it in negative terms, they are propaganda machines. — Hans Haacke
Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management. — Ben Hogan
A great pianist doesn't run around the piano or do push ups with his fingers. To be great, he plays the piano. ...being a footballer is not about running, push-ups or physical work generally. The best way to be a great footballer is to play. — Jose Mourinho
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 miscasting. — Marcus Buckingham
Courage is managing fear to accomplish what you want to accomplish. And it's a great demonstration of love. It's really what love is. It's finding areas in which other people are more important than you. — Rudy Giuliani
To me he will not just be remembered as a great player and a lovely human being, but as somebody who tried to learn Bengali for the last 14 years but never managed to do so! — Sourav Ganguly
Great companies with the way they work, first start with great leaders. — Steve Ballmer
Am I a great manager? Huh. I was blessed to have a front office that found great talent, and then I was smart enough to stay the hell out of their way. — Sparky Anderson
The true genius of a great manager is his or her ability to individualize. A great manager is one who understands how to trip each person's trigger. — Marcus Buckingham
Real management is developing people through work. — Agha Hasan Abedi
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