Managers Quotes
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WHILE I THINK the reasons for postmortems are compelling, I know that most people still resist them. So I want to share some techniques that can help managers get the most out of them. First of all, vary the way you conduct them. By definition, postmortems are supposed to be about lessons learned, so if you repeat the same format, you tend to uncover the same lessons, which isn’t much help to anyone.
Edwin Catmull
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Managers watch over our numbers, our time and our results. Leaders watch over us.
Simon Sinek
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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.
Kevin Keegan
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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.
Clark Gregg
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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.
Burton Malkiel
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The strategies that managers employ are at least as important as the facilities at their disposal.
Anthony Stafford Beer
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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.
Hillary Clinton
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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.
Adrian Slywotzky
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Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers.
Simon Mawer
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Managers who are skilled communicators may also be good at covering up real problems.
Chris Argyris
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I was often misquoted. I was supportive of my managers, even though they all may not think so.
George Steinbrenner
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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.
Michael Lee-Chin
