I’ve played under different managers, different styles, and most of my career, I was asked to play long.
The free market is at its best when everybody works in a fish bowl and tells you their point of view… The hedge funds and portfolio managers have a right to do this… We’ve muted the analysts and their presence in the system.
You see it everywhere in football: when results are not there, then the first guy who has to go is the manager. It’s not always the managers; sometimes it’s also the players who we have to blame.
Art is a form of asset. Hedge-fund managers who have made money fast should diversify into other areas.
In Italy, managers don’t know how long they’re going to be in charge for and there’s always rumors about someone taking over.
I’ve been in football a long time now and I’ve seen plenty of managers and players come and go. It is part and parcel of the game.
We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster’s paradise.
Sometimes I had bad behaviour with managers that I loved at Sampdoria, like Vujadin Boskov and Sven-Goran Eriksson. I understand that this can happen during the game or when you are substituted.
Folks may not be familiar with Pharmacy Benefit Managers, or PBMs, but they live with the effects of PBMs almost every time they go to fill a prescription and have to dig deep in their wallet to pay for it.
Many American TV actors employ agents, managers, business managers, publicists and stylists, and are now adding digital media manager to the list. Their job is to reach out to the fans, managing websites, Twitter feeds, Facebook and Wikipedia.
Sometimes managers are a little shy to criticize another manager or another operation.
The more books there are on shelves, the more will be sold. Once you get to the level of The Secret and have 40-100 copies in many stores, managers have almost no choice but to put them in prime real estate like front-of-store, end caps, or front window.
We like people with the potential to be leaders of leaders, not managers of managers.
Top managers, like Pochettino, Klopp and Guardiola don’t make excuses.
The key to management is to get rid of the managers.
When you’ve been in the game as long as I have, you know the managers you’ve played for, the good ones and the bad ones. Even the good ones get fired.
The whole enterprise of teaching managers is steeped in the ethic of data-driven analytical support. The problem is, the data is only available about the past. So the way we’ve taught managers to make decisions and consultants to analyze problems condemns them to taking action when it’s too late.
A lot of the best managers in the game were forced into it by financial necessity. From Sir Alex Ferguson to Jurgen Klopp, their main incentive to move into coaching after their playing careers was to make a living.
After more than 30 years in the dugout I have come to realise there is a need at many clubs for someone who can act as a link between managers and owners.
Pitchers really don’t deal with the managers a whole lot. When we come in the clubhouse, we see him, we say, ‘Hey.’ That’s really it.
I don’t think managers have the opportunity to think in terms of a long-term vision for a club.
Obviously you do get influenced by former managers. That’s normal. You try to build your own coaching philosophies. I’ve played for Arrigo Saachi, Dino Zoff, Zdenek Zeman, Gullit, Vialli and Ranieri.
What you’ve got to realise is that footballers, and me in particular, have seen everything in the changing room. Everything. I’ve seen the manager kicking off with the players, the players kicking off with him, players fighting each other, managers fighting, everything.
I think it’s really important for managers to be liked by his players because ultimately, on the pitch, those players will give everything for their manager.
I recommend people don’t get in high-profile marriages. There are a lot of people in the world. You don’t have to marry someone with their own team of publicists, managers, agents, and lawyers.
I’ve played for managers who said one thing and did another and players find you out like that. You’ve got to trust them and they’ve got to trust you.
Great players don’t always make great managers, but I hope a golden generation of fantastic players’ knowledge is not going to be lost when they surely have something to offer as coaches.
People often talk about a coach’s philosophy, but generally, I think managers look at the players they have and then decide on their style.
The No. 1 criticism most managers get is that they don’t ever change or wait too long to make changes… It’s very simple: Either things are performing or they’re not. And if it’s not performing, we have to make changes.
Clubs need to take more ownership on how they recruit managers.
Of course managers win ball games.
We’re living under the Obama economy. Any CEO in America with a record like this after three years on the job would be graciously shown the door. This president blames the managers instead. He blames the folks on the shop floor. He blames the weather.
We’re always working on our communication, which is something that’s important. Instead of going through managers to discuss things, we will sit down and have meetings about things. That’s a process. And you have to be able to be honest with each other as much as you can.
Louis van Gaal is one of the most successful managers in the world.
Foreign managers, sometimes it’ll take them time to adapt or for the players to adapt to them. It’s something that is just one of those things in football.
To make flexibility work, it is not only necessary to change our attitude about who is a good worker and who is not, but we have to train managers at all levels to recognize the difference between the number of hours worked and the quality of work produced.
Republicans seem to be gambling that most Americans won’t care about a few rich private equity managers if their own taxes go down, their stock portfolio goes up, and economic growth accelerates.
Requiring fund managers to disclose how they vote would increase accountability and mean that pensioners and ordinary investors would more easily be able to see how those acting on their behalf vote on all issues, including remuneration.
I wanted to play Dina. I was my managers most annoying client as I kept saying that I needed to get this part.
I do things normal event managers cannot do, thanks to my years in the film industry.
British managers tend to be a bit more hands off, let you express yourself in training.
You have to train managers to encourage their teams to be entrepreneurial.
A lot of camps and summer programs for kids seem to have discovered that among the most valuable things they offer is what they don’t offer. No Wi-Fi. No grades. No hovering parents or risk managers or parents who parent like risk managers.
I’ve seen managers come in and lose the first game, you’re on the back foot straight away.
Companies and managers that find a way to harness social media stand to gain.
Thank you to all of the managers, coaches, and staff I’ve worked with and thank you to all of the team-mates that I’ve shared a dressing room with over the years.
Hedge fund managers charge so much more than mutual fund managers; alpha is even harder to come by. They end up selling a variety of things beyond mere outperformance.
Managers have people second-guessing them all the time.
In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.
When the positions of so many managers is precarious, and there isn’t long-term stability, I can understand why they are loath to risk.
My main regret about my years in football was keeping my mouth shut like a little mouse, not daring to speak out because I was told you left the managers to get on with the job and that the chairman must never interfere with the manager’s decisions or the performance of his team.
There are people who are better managers than I am. I aspire to be a really good manager, but it’s not my natural personality to do the same thing for 14 hours a day. I have a lot of different interests. I really like product and strategy and business strategy, and I think I’m not bad at it.
Like wildebeest and zebra migration across the Serengeti, investment managers and consultants, too, have a habit of running together and, every now and then, changing direction.
Executives don’t burn out and leave when they feel deep satisfaction. They don’t create the human detritus that disgruntled managers do.
Entrepreneurs or international conglomerateurs, or large financial institutions buy or create mutual fund management companies to create a return on their own capital. It’s capitalism at work, where the rewards tend to go to the managers rather than the investors.
Many of the railroad evils were inherent in the situation; they were explained by the fact that both managers and public were dealing with a new agency whose laws they did not completely understand.
Oh, the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes.
Sometimes when general managers get a new job, they clean house and start over and rebuild and get the players they want in there.
