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I think management is about just that - managing people via man-to-man skills. -- Stuart Pearce
Managing people's sex lives is something that I don't think is a good role for government. -- William Weld
Empathy for the people you're working with and being aware of their needs...that's the "big kahuna" in managing people. -- Barbara Corcoran
When I moved into management, it was all about managing people and keeping them motivated - I didn't use sales metrics to drive my business. Now, everything comes from the numbers. -- Jim McDonough
I believe one of the best things about managing people is that we can influence lives in a positive way. That's basically what a manager is about. When I can do that, I am very happy. -- Arsene Wenger
Go for civil engineering, because civil engineering is the branch of engineering which teaches you the most about managing people. Managing people is a skill which is very, very useful and applies almost regardless of what you do. -- John Harvey-Jones
Since I'm a mother and a wife, I have to have passion or the frustration would win out. But I love managing people. The product is second to managing the people. And marketing to consumers is so challenging because it is evolving constantly. -- Andrea Jung
Inventories can be managed, but people must be led. -- Ross Perot
People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best. -- David Chalmers
Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks. -- Marilyn vos Savant
Clearly, as a CEO, you have other functions that are managed by other people. -- Al-Waleed bin Talal
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people. -- James A. Garfield
Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument. -- David Crystal
You might say that economic history is the history of people learning to manage risk. -- James Surowiecki
The great directors managed to dissolve and disappear into the work. They make other people look good. -- Alexander Mackendrick
There's broad recognition that you really have to put the money where people are going to self-manage. -- Sri Mulyani Indrawati
The way you manage your company and the way you manage your people has to be totally different. -- Carol Bartz
It's good that I managed to hoodwink so many people. I am actually not that nice a person. -- Jarvis Cocker
A lot of people have put their lives online and are using MySpace to manage their social lives. -- Chris DeWolfe
When I finally got a management position, I found out how hard it is to lead and manage people. -- Guy Kawasaki
I still can't manage to keep a journal, and people have been telling me to since the fourth grade. -- John Darnielle
It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both. -- Guy de Maupassant
I am not about to let the people who so mismanaged the state budget now try to manage local government. -- Jim Doyle
You know, I think when people are in important positions in big organizations, they often get tied up with the minutia of managing money, managing things. They often forget that people deserve to be led. -- Chesley Sullenberger
I've often heard people say that managing creative people is the hardest thing in the world. 'They're never happy, they drive up the cost of things, blah blah blah.' I just manage people the way I always wanted to be managed. That is, to be creatively challenged, but never to be told what to do. -- John Lasseter
The product is second to managing the people. -- Andrea Jung
Older people do a better job of managing their impulses, and so they're better able to put off putting off. -- James Surowiecki
Fashion is only complete when it is worn by ordinary people who exist now, managing their lives, loving and grieving. -- Yohji Yamamoto
Managing a business, small or large, today requires an extremely disciplined, thoughtful approach with regard to the pressure that people are under. -- Howard Schultz
Self-managing is Job One. Have a vision and a mission. Surround yourself with talented people. Rely on effective coaching, not managing of employees. -- Tom Gegax
Our way of managing and leading, rewarding and judging people is totally out of tune with the fact that we are all individuals. -- Howard Gardner
You have to be able to psychologically help your players, support-wise, be in touch with them, so I think managing people is very important. -- Phil Jackson
My feeling is that when you're managing a baseball team, you have to pick the right people to play and then pray a lot. -- Robin Roberts
When you manage people, you must first convince them they need managing. So you create the problems and then let the people cry for solutions. -- Barbara Marciniak
We get brilliant results from average people managing brilliant processes - while our competitors get average or worse results from brilliant people managing broken processes -- Fujio Cho
People have to be confident about their sites. We're confident, number one, because under my administration we're managing our airports better than we've ever done before. -- Richard M. Daley
People have to be confident about their sites. We're confident, number one, because under my administration we're managing our airports better than we've ever done before." -- Richard M. Daley
People who copy what exists copy a point-in-time artifact, and if you are managing the process correctly you are already hard at work on the next thing. -- Scott D. Anthony
What people who are doing shift work or managing shift workers or deciding to put people on shift schedules to begin with should realize that we're not robots. -- Jessa Gamble
Most people manage pain by eating, drinking, smoking, distracting themselves, working harder. That's just managing pain, the pain that comes from not feeling fully alive from not growing. -- Tony Robbins
Some people asked me if I would be interested in managing the A's. I said a definite no thank you. At night, that place is a graveyard with lights. -- Whitey Herzog
There's this joy that comes from sitting down to solve a problem and standing up when it's done and good. Building a company or managing people is never just done. -- Drew Houston
What is common to our societies is the development into a managed mass society, with big bureaucracy, managing people. The Russians do it by force. We do it by persuasion. -- Erich Fromm

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