Quotes on Managers

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.

That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.

We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn't always possible for women to become doctors or managers or insurance people. Let them be armed with a true picture of the way we want it to be.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will. You are a disciple, a follower, of your own deep values and their source. And you have the will, the integrity, to subordinate your feelings, your impulses, your moods to those values.

FINANCE, n. The art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager. The pronunciation of this word with the i long and the accent on the first syllable is one of America's most precious discoveries and possessions.

There is a kind of classlessness in the theater. The rehearsal pianist, the head carpenter, the stage manager, the star of the show-all are family.

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Employees who are controlled cannot respond caringly, you need superior knowledge and real leadership, not management. Because of this we specifically developed a selection process for leaders; we don't hire managers.

There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each (inanimate) instrument could do its own work.

Baseball has traditionally possessed a wonderful lack of seriousness. The game's best player, Babe Ruth, was a Rabelaisian fat man, and its most loved manager, Casey Stengel, spoke gibberish. In this lazy sport, only the pitcher pours sweat. Then he takes three days off.

I know that every time I list something that I am, I am potentially alienating a whole group of people. Publicists and managers will encourage you not to say what political party you belong to, what you eat, what you don't eat, who you sleep with and all that stuff.

I'm almost like three people. There's me the, Dolly, the person. There's me, the star. And then there's me, the manager.

People and their managers are working so hard to be sure things are done right, that they have hardly have time to decide if they are doing the right things.

If you don't hire at least one or two people that are smarter than you are, then you're a terrible manager and I don't need you.

Managers often hold on to resisters because of a specific skill set or because they've been around for a long time. Don't.

[Good managers] know that people have 'good' sides and 'bad' sides and that the secret of good management is in magnifying the former and toning down the latter.

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.

I'm not a defender of old or new football managers. I believe in good ones and bad ones, those that achieve success and those that don't.

As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there