Managers Quotes
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If I have to tell a guy he's got something to do, I consider myself a failure as a manager.
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The elites - or managers in companies - no longer control the conversation. This is how insurrections start.
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What I love about Coulson is that he manages to do that and he manages to wrangle the diva superheroes, and really keep a sense of humor about it. And, you can tell that he really loves his job.
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As a manager, you always have a gun to your head. It's a question of whether there is a bullet in the barrel.
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In the unexamined American Dream rhetoric promoting mass higher education in the nation of my youth, the implicit vision was that one day everyone, or at least practically everyone, would be a manager or a professional. We would use the most elitist of all means, scholarship, toward the most egalitarian of ends. We would all become chiefs; hardly anyone would be left a mere Indian.
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The strategies that managers employ are at least as important as the facilities at their disposal.
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I'm making a case against how money managers are handling customers' money. The objective of the customer is not being met if the fund managers are diversifying their assets into hundreds of businesses. If they do this, they are typically performing close to the indexes. But that's not the way wealth is created.
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It seems to me as I reviewed the literature that, with few exceptions, the more confident were the prescriptions about how to behave with ethics and integrity, the further removed was the author from the life and work of the everyday manager.
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Index funds have regularly produced rates of return exceeding those of active managers by close to 2 percentage points. Active management as a whole cannot achieve gross returns exceeding the market as a while and therefore they must, on average, underperform the indexes by the amount of these expense and transaction costs disadvantages.
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The best managers figure out how to get great outcomes by setting the appropriate context, rather than by trying to control their people.
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An investor doesn’t have a prayer of picking a manager that can deliver true alpha.
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The one thing I hate about other managers is waffle that is nowhere near the truth. I would never conduct myself like that.
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Being a manager is about getting into the minds of the people you represent.
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I think that many managers we meet do take their roles as leaders very seriously and do a lot for their people. And they try to hone their skills by reading books and attending training. But then again, the number one problem is we get busy. We tend to forget that collectively we can accomplish more than we could ever do alone, and we need our people to feel a part of a positive, productive culture.
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Delegate it to the manager. You have this really good staff that will take care of everything for you. You just have to delegate it and trust it.
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Why would you want to stay manager and be second-guessed by me when you can come up into the front-office and be one of the second-guessers?
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I was often misquoted. I was supportive of my managers, even though they all may not think so.
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Managers who are skilled communicators may also be good at covering up real problems.
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When it comes to being slaves to fashion, American managers make adolescent girls look like rugged individualists.
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The staff, stage managers, ushers all behaved as if they respected the actors.
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The fact is that middle managers have an effective veto power over whatever risk management system is created. If they don't buy it, it won't happen.
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Congress has all sorts of rules, hedge fund managers, private equity managers, executives, movie stars, fall into that allow them to escape or defer into the future not paying their taxes. And if you can defer your tax into the future, it's the best deal in the world, because you don't just get to eat your cake and have it too. You get to eat your cake and have a bigger cake.
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The only regret I have in my career, is my managers wanted a big payday, and I wanted four or five more fights before going in with Larry Holmes. That would have made all the difference.
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It's difficult working with very rich actors, because inevitably they become a little spoilt, and the managers and agents tend to control things more than is healthy.
