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  • Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before. -- Brian Tracy
  • Managers who don't lead are quite discouraging, but leaders who don't manage don't know what's going on. It's a phony separation that people are making between the two. -- Henry Mintzberg
  • Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, 'Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.' Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too! -- Tom Peters
  • Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails. -- Felix Dennis
  • Managers control. Leaders create commitment. -- John Peter Zenger
  • Managers develop organisations; leaders develop people. -- Robin S. Sharma
  • Managers have people second-guessing them all the time. -- Don Mattingly
  • Managers are the most creative people in the world. -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Managers who extensively plan the future get the timing wrong. -- Shona Brown
  • Managers are the basic and scarcest resource of any business enterprise. -- Peter Drucker
  • Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change. -- Seth Godin
  • Managers tell you where you are, leaders tell you where you're going. -- Rands
  • Managers must see themselves as experimenters who lead learning, not dictators who impose control. -- Peter R. Scholtes
  • Managers who are skilled communicators may also be good at covering up real problems. -- Chris Argyris
  • Managers watch over our numbers, our time and our results. Leaders watch over us. -- Simon Sinek
  • Managers have very tough jobs. I always respected their job but demanded respect in return. -- Jim Evans
  • Managers are trained to make incremental, programmatic improvements. They aren't trained to lead large-scale change. -- John P. Kotter
  • Managers maintain an efficient status quo while leaders attack the status quo to create something new. -- Orrin Woodward
  • Managers don't have as much leverage as they used to have. We can't really be the boss. -- Frank Robinson
  • Managers who don't know how to measure what they want settle for wanting what they can measure. -- Russell L. Ackoff
  • Managers are obsessed with the game. It's very, very difficult, if not impossible, to live a balanced lifestyle. -- Howard Wilkinson
  • Managers help people see themselves as they are; Leaders help people to see themselves better than they are. -- Jim Rohn
  • Managers and investors alike must understand that accounting numbers are the beginning, not the end, of business valuation. -- Warren Buffett
  • Managers who master the hammer and expect all problems to behave like nails find organizational life confusing and frustrating. -- Lee Bolman
  • Managers assert drive and control to get things done; leaders pause to discover new ways of being and achieving . -- Kevin Cashman
  • Managers that always promise to 'make the numbers' will at some point be tempted to make up the numbers. -- Warren Buffett
  • Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it. -- Harold S. Geneen
  • Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it. -- Harold S. Geneen
  • Managers must have the discipline not to keep pulling up the flowers to see if their roots are healthy. -- Robert Townsend
  • Managers are important: they are leading the company and guiding and have to provide vision and manage the daily business. -- Hasso Plattner
  • Managers can waste a lot of time at the outset of a crisis denying that something went wrong. Skip that step. -- Jack Welch
  • Managers often hold on to resisters because of a specific skill set or because they've been around for a long time. Don't. -- Jack Welch
  • That's all baseball is, is numbers; it's run by numbers, averages, percentage and odds. Managers make their decisions based on the numbers. -- Rollie Fingers
  • Managers are agents of transformation, converting the workforce in developed countries from one of manual workers to one of highly educated knowledge workers. -- Peter Drucker
  • Managers think of themselves as captains of a ship on a stormy sea. Risk for them is danger, but they are fighting it, very controlled. -- Daniel Kahneman
  • 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. -- Robert Heller
  • Managers are responsible for setting workplace policies under which teachers can succeed. Managers are responsible for negotiating contracts that create the conditions under which teachers can succeed. -- Eli Broad
  • [Facebook and Twitter] aren't the real problems in the office. The real problems are what I like to call the M&Ms, the Managers and the Meetings. -- Jason Fried
  • Managers will tell people what to do, whereas leaders will inspire them to do it, and there are a few things that go into the ability to inspire. -- Jeff Weiner
  • Managers construct, rearrange, single out, and demolish many 'objective' features of their surroundings. When people act they unrandomize variables, insert vestiges of orderliness, and literally create their own constraints. -- Karl E. Weick
  • Managers don't like giving appraisals, and employees don't like getting them. Perhaps they're not liked because both parties suspect what the evidence has proved for decades: Traditional performance appraisals don't work. -- W. Edwards Deming
  • Serving and helping are great things, but we can go too far. Managers should not adopt poor performers. Colleagues should not cover for each other's mistakes. Parents should not enable their children. -- John G. Miller
  • Managers are, and should be, totally responsible for recognizing individual strengths (both natural talents and skills), getting those strengths in proper alignment (i.e. in the right "seats"), and then leveraging them. -- Marcus Buckingham
  • Managers will work for a salary. Entrepreneurs create new businesses. Many people have capital, but instead of making money for business they build houses for rent. It's easy money to collect rental. -- John Gokongwei
  • Managers tend to treat organizations as if they are infinitely plastic. They hire and fire, merge, downsize, terminate programs, add capacities. But there are limits to the shifts that organizations can absorb. -- Kevin Kelly
  • Some of the most flowery praise you hear on the subject of teams is only hypocrisy. Managers learn to talk a good game about teams even when they're secretly threatened by the whole concept. -- Tom DeMarco
  • 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. -- Jodi Rell
  • The NBA has a voice that's why they have a lockout. The NFL has a voice that's why they had a lockout. Boxing is the only sport that's individually represented the individual people - Managers, Promoters and Boxers. -- Bernard Hopkins
  • Managers at [the nuclear] sector should know that we need diplomacy and not slogans, .. This [is] where we should use all our leverages with patience and wisdom, without provocation and slogans that can give pretexts to the enemies. -- Bill Vaughan
  • Managers are never 100 percent in control. You're at the mercy of the players. When you're a player, you're driving. I'm the navigator. I hardly ever think about driving anymore, unless there's two out in the bottom of the ninth. -- Dusty Baker
  • Managers tend to pick a strategy that is the least likely to fail, rather then to pick a strategy that is most efficient," Said Palmer. " The pain of looking bad is worse than the gain of making the best move. -- Michael Lewis
  • One skill of a great entrepreneur is to get a whole complicated discussion and then say, 'We're going to do this one and we're only going to do this one'. Managers are good at prioritizing. Entrepreneurs know what is the one thing. -- Bing Gordon
  • Managers thinking about accounting issues should never forget one of Abraham Lincoln's favorite riddles: How many legs does a dog have, if you call a tail a leg? The answer: Four, because calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. -- Warren Buffett
  • For a business to strengthen its position on the market, its managers should become skillful at helping their subordinates to set and achieve specific and measurable goals with realistic deadlines and clear expectations. Managers should also mentor employees through challenges, helping them grow and develop new skills. -- Anna Stevens
  • Managers are not confronted with problems that are independent of each other, but with dynamic situations that consist of complex systems of changing problems that interact with each other. I call such situations messes. Problems are extracted from messes by analysis. Managers do not solve problems, they manage messes. -- Russell L. Ackoff
  • Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change. -- Edsger Dijkstra
  • Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats. -- Alvin Toffler
  • The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand. -- Jack Welch
  • The inability to delegate is one of the biggest problems I see with managers at all levels. -- Eli Broad
  • A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships. -- Stephen Covey
  • Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business. -- Zig Ziglar
  • Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs. -- Jack Welch
  • More and more, in any company, managers are dealing with different cultures. Companies are going global, but the teams are being divided and scattered all over the planet. -- Carlos Ghosn
  • The world isn't fast-paced, it's frenetic. People have to be managers of themselves. Time has been managing itself for 15 billion years; we have to manage ourselves in the context of time. -- Tony Buzan
  • If you don't like the idea that most of the money spent on lottery tickets supports government programs, you should know that most of the earnings from mutual funds support investment advisors' and mutual fund managers' retirement. -- Robert Kiyosaki
  • As a whole, the managers today are different in temperament. Most have very good communication skills and are more understanding of the umpire's job. That doesn't mean they are better managers. It just means that I perceive today's managers a bit differently. -- Jim Evans
  • The best, most successful managers in the modern era are those who can keep a player happy even if he is not in the team. Given the size of the squads and the use of rotation nowadays, that's tougher than it's ever been. -- Gary Lineker
  • The free market is at its best when everybody works in a fish bowl and tells you their point of view... The hedge funds and portfolio managers have a right to do this... We've muted the analysts and their presence in the system. -- Mario Gabelli
  • You can teach all sorts of things that improve the practice of management with people who are managers. What you cannot do is teach management to somebody who is not a manager, the way you cannot teach surgery to somebody whose not a surgeon. -- Henry Mintzberg
  • We're living under the Obama economy. Any CEO in America with a record like this after three years on the job would be graciously shown the door. This president blames the managers instead. He blames the folks on the shop floor. He blames the weather. -- Mitch McConnell
  • To make flexibility work, it is not only necessary to change our attitude about who is a good worker and who is not, but we have to train managers at all levels to recognize the difference between the number of hours worked and the quality of work produced. -- Madeleine M. Kunin
  • 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
  • There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don't usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp. -- Mark Zuckerberg
  • Many financial and industrial companies have been bailed out with the public's money, but very few of those who had run those companies have been punished for their failures. Yes, the top managers of those companies have lost their jobs - but with a fat pension and mostly with a handsome severance payment. -- Ha-Joon Chang
  • Now that we've discovered how to actually develop policies and projects holistically, if we can get the barriers out of the way and release the creativity that's in our universities, our farming organizations, amongst our farmers and land managers, we'll be astounded. As I'd like to express it, the human spirit will fly. -- Allan Savory
  • Self-dealing, essentially, occurs when managers run companies to line their own pockets instead of those of the companies' owners. It's been a perennial problem in American capitalism and became a real dilemma when America moved toward a model in which corporations would be run by professional managers who had only small ownership stakes. -- James Surowiecki
  • After costs, only the top 3% of managers produce a return that indicates they have sufficient skill to just cover their costs, which means that going forward, and despite extraordinary past returns, even the top performers are expected to be only as good as a low-cost passive index fund. The other 97% can be expected to do worse. -- Eugene Fama
  • People quit managers, not jobs. -- Marcus Buckingham
  • People leave managers, not companies -- Marcus Buckingham
  • Of course managers win ball games. -- Walter Alston
  • People join organizations, they leave managers. -- Bill Hybels
  • Children imitate their parents, employees their managers. -- Amit Kalantri
  • Good managers have a bias for action. -- Tom Peters
  • Victims blame, managers maintain, and leaders change. -- Orrin Woodward
  • Players only understand substitutions when they become managers. -- Bobby Robson
  • 99% of fund managers demonstrate no evidence of skill whatsoever. -- William J. Bernstein
  • We don't need less kids, just more middle managers -- Ryan Fitzpatrick
  • There are no managers like there used to be managers. -- Richard Manuel
  • Make your top managers rich and they will make you rich. -- Robert H. Johnson
  • These managers all know their onions and cut their cloth accordingly. -- Mark Lawrenson
  • There are only two kinds of managers. Winning managers and ex-managers. -- Gil Hodges
  • The key to management is to get rid of the managers. -- Ricardo Semler
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  • All resources are not obvious; great managers find and develop available talent. -- Zig Ziglar
  • Some of the most successful people managers are also the best listeners. -- Mary Kay Ash
  • I'm happy that I have agents and managers that believe in me. -- Tricia Helfer
  • There's an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job. -- Peter Drucker
  • A CEO's behavior has a huge impact on managers down the line. -- Warren Buffett
  • The owners and managers were too stupid to realize we had brains. -- Ted Lindsay
  • Sir Alex Ferguson is one of the best managers in football history. -- Tim Howard
  • If you have managers reporting to managers in a startup, you will fail. -- Mark Cuban
  • 'The system made me do it' is the perfect cop-out for today's managers. -- Pankaj Ghemawat
  • He's one of those managers you'd give your left leg to play for. -- Colin Cooper
  • Why are baseball managers the only coaches who dress up like the players? -- Jay Mohr
  • Most founders have not managed people before, and they certainly haven't managed managers. -- Sam Altman
  • The staff, stage managers, ushers all behaved as if they respected the actors. -- Estelle
  • The staff, stage managers, ushers all behaved as if they respected the actors. -- Estelle
  • How you measure the performance of your managers directly affects the way they act. -- Gustave Flaubert
  • I've gone through managers like people go through shredded wheat. Nobody looks after you. -- Steven Morrissey
  • Companies and managers that find a way to harness social media stand to gain. -- Ryan Holmes
  • Too many managers manage by what the postgame press conference is going to be. -- John Kruk
  • Empowerment is what managers do to people. Engagement is what managers do with people. -- Henry Mintzberg
  • I lost agents and managers because I turned down big movies that were smutty. -- Morgan Brittany
  • I've learned you don't always listen to your agents and managers. Sometimes they know nothing. -- Joan Rivers
  • Yogi Berra, Bill Lee, they were irreverent, poked fun at the stodgy owners and managers. -- W. P. Kinsella
  • Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers. -- Tom Peters
  • Computers allow architects to remain parental instead of being marginalized by the contractors and managers. -- Frank Gehry
  • My University of Management will create managers who will float in happiness, success and fulfillment. -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Fund investors are confident that they can easily select superior fund managers. They are wrong. -- John C. Bogle
  • Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state. -- Bela Lugosi
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