Manager Quotes - page 2

The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. (Warren Bennis)

The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.

Warren Bennis

When a manager asks for hard data, that's usually just his way of saying no.

Ward Cunningham

I received a letter from the Reich Ministry of Sports. They want me to split from Joe Jacobs, my manager since 1928.... I really need Joe Jacobs. I owe all my success in America to him.

Max Schmeling

The days of the 'intuitive' manager are numbered.

Peter Drucker

A manager sets objectives - A manager organizes - A manager motivates and communicates - A manager, by establishing yardsticks, measures.

Peter Drucker

It has been said, and only half in jest, that a tough, professionally led union is a great force for improving management performance. It forces the manager to think about what he is doing and to be able to explain his actions and behavior.

Peter Drucker

The manager is a servant. His master is the institution he manages and his first responsibility must therefore be to it.

Peter Drucker

To be a manager requires more than a title, a big office, and other outward symbols of rank. It requires competence and performance of a high order.

Peter Drucker

Programming in the abstract sense is what I really enjoy. I enjoy lots of different areas of it... I'm taking a great deal of enjoyment writing device drivers for Linux. I could also be having a good time writing a database manager or something because there are always interesting problems.

John D. Carmack

There are hundreds of Canadian communities that have given more thought to hiring their rink manager than they have to electing their member of Parliament. (Preston Manning)

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

When I took the entrepreneurship class at Stanford, the first lecture was about an entrepreneur and his personality. They described it as being different than a businessman, who is an overall scientific manager.

Phil Knight

I've been a DJ, janitor, ditch digger, waitress, computer instructor, programmer, mechanic, web developer, clerk, manager, marketing director, tour guide and dorm manager, among other things.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I think I'm most proud of the fact that I have figured out how to exist as both a creative person and artist, and a businesswoman and manager. Because those two things do not go together.

Shonda Rhimes

My manager and my agents, they go over my contracts.

Gerard Butler

Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager.

John Taylor Gatto

Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself.

Denis Waitley

J has told me about his past. I know what happened and why. But he is the one person who made me believe in my talent and whatever happened in the past, he's been a wonderful manager to me.

LaToya Jackson

I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn't.

LaToya Jackson

My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner. (Poppy Z. Brite)

I do want to be a manager one day. It might be 10 years, I don't know when.

Paul Gascoigne

I think what I've actually achieved as a manager does sometimes get a bit overlooked, because all people think about is the media side of things. They tend to forget I've not done so bad.

Gordon Strachan

But when the 'Glee' audition came around, my manager literally had to talk me into it. I was petrified to sing in front of anyone.

Cory Monteith

I grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. I lived in Grand Blanc, Michigan for a year and that's when I got involved in acting and took classes there. A manager who saw me at the agency I was at in Michigan wanted me to come out to L.A.

Evan Peters

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