#manager

All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth. ↗

— Ted Williams

#face #furniture #losers #managers #most

The business manager was doing fine back in his office while they were out on the line, hungry. And, so they started to see a lot of that and there was, that maybe the leadership had its own cause. More so than the miners, you know, it was like a power struggle. ↗

— Richard Grimes

#business #cause #doing #fine #had

Being a football manager is no fun at all. You have to put up with all the hassle. It is not surprising that so many turn grey or have heart attacks. ↗

— Ruud Gullit

#being #football #fun #grey #heart

Then, in 2000, John Reid, Elton John's former manager, asked me to audition for the stage version of The Graduate he was producing. So I worked on it, got the part, and after three weeks' rehearsal I was on stage! ↗

— Jerry Hall

#asked #audition #elton #former #got

The Macintosh having shipped, his next agenda was to turn the rest of Apple into the Mac group. He had perceived the rest of Apple wasn't as creative or motivated as the Mac team, and what you need to take over the company are managers, not innovators or technical people. ↗

— Andy Hertzfeld

#apple #company #creative #group #had

A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here's where we are going to go, here's why we need to go there, and here's how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor. ↗

— Mike Huckabee

#broad #direction #get #gets #go

You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line. ↗

— Bob Anderson

#autonomy #big #buck #every #got

I'm quite bullish. We're coming up on year 15 of a flat stock market. Historically that's a pretty good sign. So I'm not a hedge-fund manager but if I was I think I'd be feeling pretty good. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#coming #feeling #flat #good #good sign

In some cases, managers and employees have secured pensions beyond their original base salary. It is wrong, the people doing it know it's wrong, and we have to put an end to it. ↗

— Jerry Brown

#beyond #cases #doing #employees #end

The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#good #good manager #makes #manager #one word