#manage

Partly because his life ended before the age of 50, Hamilton was defined by the other founding fathers, and he managed, with amazing consistency, to alienate most of them. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#alienate #amazing #because #before #consistency

Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way. ↗

— Lou Reed

#career #chandler #doing #going #his

I joined the city government, and we start to operate as the bureaucrats on the local level, so we were the only ones in the whole Russian team who were experienced in practical bureaucratic management in the complicated condition of 1990. ↗

— Anatoly Chubais

#bureaucrats #city #city government #complicated #condition

The problem is, we elected a manager and we need a leader. Let's face it: Bush is just dim. ↗

— George Clooney

#dim #elected #face #just #leader

If a chairman sacks the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well. ↗

— Brian Clough

#chairman #go #initially #manager #sacks

I mean, you know, you're looking at a guy who has a manager, who's created a life for me that - I mean, I don't pay phone bills and electric bills. I have somebody to do that for me. I've been very, very lucky. And I live in this insular sort of world, you know, so everything's, you know, everything's got a silver lining as far as I'm concerned. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#been #bills #concerned #created #electric

Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere. ↗

— Jack Vance

#excursions #fit #i #little #manage

Any manager can do well in an expanding market. ↗

— W. Edwards Deming

#expanding #manager #market #well

The number-one job of the hedge-fund manager is not to make sure that you can retire with a smile on your face - it's for him to retire with a smile on his face. ↗

— Mark Cuban

#face #him #his #job #make

Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives. ↗

— W. Edwards Deming

#including #management #numerical #objectives #quotas