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All resources are not obvious; great managers find and develop available talent. -- Zig Ziglar
We have great managers who havent spent a day in management school. Do we have great surgeons that havent spent a day in surgical school? -- Henry Mintzberg
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
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. -- Marcus Buckingham
It remains true that great managers recognize individualities and focus on developing strengths rather than weaknesses. Great leaders, in sharp contrast, recognize what is (or could be) shared in common - a vision, a dream, a mission, whatever - and inspire others to join them in the given enterprise. -- Marcus Buckingham
We played a whole season unbeaten but you did not see me every week jumping on the tables. Once it's over it's over and you do in the next one as well as you can. Plenty of managers who have won the Champions League will not be considered great managers. -- Arsene Wenger
My dad is a great manager. He's not just competent - he's very clever. -- Nico Rosberg
If you've got aspirations to be a manager or coach, obviously coaching your country would be a great honour. -- Gary Speed
It took me 35 years of being involved at a decent level of football to become manager at a great club like Celtic. -- Gordon Strachan
A good chef has to be a manager, a businessman and a great cook. To marry all three together is sometimes difficult. -- Wolfgang Puck
The great actors we had came from the actor-manager theaters. Not only did they create a team, they were the generals working with the soldiers. -- Steven Berkoff
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
I have a wonderful road manager, and he travels with me. And my valet and friend travels with me. My little entourage is great, and they take good care of me. -- Don Rickles
I've been so fortunate in life to have worked for such great organizations, with great owners and general managers and all the great players, along with the support of my family. -- Tony La Russa
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I am tired of being roasted. I had a great deal of hard luck while manager of the team and somehow or other couldn't get the best out of the material I had at hand. -- Joe Kelley
Now let me say that Matt Busby was a great manager and Manchester United wouldn't be where they are without him. He was a god at the club, but he wasn't a god to me. Football is like that sometimes. -- Johnny Giles
You're not going to become a great manager overnight. You're not going to become a great public speaker or figure out how to raise money. These are the things you want to start the clock on as early as possible. -- Drew Houston
I'm very content to have great management and a great label. But for me, success started when my managers came to me and told me, 'Go ahead and quit your job.' I told them, 'As long as I don't have to wash dishes anymore, I'm good.' -- Leon Bridges
When I was very young in London, I had a bank account, which didn't have a great deal in it. I should think at least every three months the bank manager would call me up and threaten to strangle me because I had no money, and I was writing checks. -- Peter Mayle
When I became the manager of the New York Yankees, it was an opportunity to realize my lifelong dream of winning the World Series. We were fortunate enough to succeed in our first season in 1996, and in the years that followed, we wrote some great new chapters in Yankee history. -- Joe Torre
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
You know what, the drummer is my manager. He's busy. And I'm busy. I don't need the dough, though. But having said that, there's a limit to how much bad music I wanna play. I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn't great. -- Aimee Mann
I was imagining a long life of being a stone cold loser. Then I got a job, which was really nice, then I got a great agent, a great manager, which was really nice. I was doing a lot of set ups, and, you know, I got to start working in L.A. -- Mackenzie Davis
Have I done more business-related things to help my career grow? Yeah. I took the business end more seriously, hooked up with a manager, got some help, because at a certain point, you get frustrated when you go do auditions, and people say you did a great job, and then you don't get he part. -- Gary Sinise
Leo Durocher was our manager and he brought Willie up to me and said, 'This is Willie Mays and he's your new roommate.' You could see right away that this young man was a natural. He had those real big hands, great power and speed and would catch everything hit in his direction. He's the best center fielder that ever lived, no question. -- Monte Irvin
Bad sales managers push two buttons: 'more' and 'panic.' Great sales managers have one more button to push: the 'how'. -- Chris Lytle
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
Trees and soils can absorb carbon dioxide released by fossil fuel burning. It would be great to subsidize responsible farmers and forest managers. -- Alana Beard
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. -- Tim Brady
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

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