Manager Quotes

• The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Why
  • Leader
  • Manager

• I began singing in dive bars and really small clubs. I dragged my piano down the stairs, and I went down the street with my keyboard, and I would go to every different dive bar that I could get to agree to let me play. I'd call and pretend I was Lady Gaga's manager.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Different
  • Play
  • Street

• In high school I was the manager of the football team, so being around boys is natural to me!

  

  Hillary Scott Lady Antebellum
  • School
  • Manager
  • Football Team

• I've always valued the input of the people I love. So in the past, whenever I'd make a decision - what to wear to an event, whether to pursue a job opportunity - I'd consult those closest to me, like my mother, husband, or manager.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • People
  • Love
  • Job

• I've never had a manager, and I've had various agents, and, fortunately or unfortunately, I've been blessed.

  

  Rebecca De Mornay
  • Blessed
  • Unfortunately
  • Fortunately

• I'm much more of a realist. I'm really practical. I'm the kind of person that calls my business manager and says, OK, if it were all to end today, how many months do I have to live?

  

  Courteney Cox
  • Live
  • Business
  • Today

• How did I get into the world? Why was I not asked about it and why was I not informed of the rules and regulations but just thrust into the ranks as if I had been bought by a peddling shanghaier of human beings? How did I get involved in this big enterprise called actuality? Why should I be involved? Isn't it a matter of choice? And if I am compelled to be involved, where is the manager—I have something to say about this. Is there no manager? To whom shall I make my complaint?

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Human Beings
  • Regulations
  • Ranks

• I go by records and Bob Paisley is the No 1 manager ever!

  

  Alan Hansen
  • Records
  • Manager
  • Bob Paisley

• Authentic stardom ... is a gift which, if it is to have any permanent significance, must be bestowed by a public rather than a manager.

  

  Katharine Cornell
  • Gift
  • Public
  • Authentic

• If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Up
  • Good
  • Word

• There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog, waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Waiting
  • Boy
  • Dog

• I am a Tambrahm born and brought up in Jamshedpur 20 years of my life, as my father worked for the Tatas there. My mother was a chief manager in the Bank of India and the only lady manager in Bihar in those times.

  

  R. Madhavan
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Bank Of India

• I was actually the manager of the games department of an amusement park when I was at college, so I understood the coin-op side of the games business very well.

  

  Nolan Bushnell
  • Business
  • College
  • Understood

• When we first went there we completely lacked confidence. Our manager told us our act was too long, and told us to drop certain numbers and concentrate on the exciting stuff. And he was right.

  

  Steve Marriott Small Faces
  • Confidence
  • Manager
  • Concentrate

• I've not seen an effective manager or leader who can't spend some fraction of time down in the trenches... If they don't do that they get out of touch with reality, and their whole thought and management process becomes abstract and disconnected.

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Leader
  • Fraction
  • Trenches

• Barney told me he’d written ‘Liar’ about our manager. I was really shocked when I saw the lyrics. Poor Rob.

  

  Peter Hook New Order
  • Lyrics
  • Liar
  • Manager

• I was working as a cocktail waitress in a heavy metal bar. Then, my manager said I should try some acting, which led to an audition Satisfaction, where I played a musician in an all-girl band. That movie is where I met my future ex-husband Jody Porter.

  

  Britta Phillips
  • Movie
  • Satisfaction
  • Cocktail waitress

• Leadership is creating a state of mind in others. The difference between being a leader and manager, all due respect to managers, is that leaders have to create states of mind. But a leader, first of all, has to have a clear state of mind, which is usually her own vision, which energizes her, motivates others, and then creates that state of mind in others.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Mind
  • Respect
  • Vision

• Decisiveness is the one word that makes a good manager.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Good
  • Word
  • Decisiveness

• The primary skill of a manager consists of knowing how to make assignments and picking the right people to carry out those assignments

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • People
  • Skill
  • Assignment

• A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Despise
  • Acclaim

• If I Had To Sum Up In One Word The Qualities That Make Up A Good Manager, I'd Say Decisiveness.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• My priority is to give the general manager and head coach all the resources necessary to make the Browns successful.

  

  Randy Lerner
  • Resources
  • General
  • Browns

• My manager says we've been working with the FDA on this.

  

  Carlos Gonzalez
  • Working
  • Says
  • FDA

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