Venture capitalists are professional money managers. We are provided capital to invest as long as we can return it to our investors with a strong return in a reasonable amount of time. A strong return is three times cash on cash. A reasonable amount of time is ten years max.
A sportswriter’s life means never sitting with your wife or family at the games. Still working after everyone has gone to the party… Digging beneath a coach’s lies, not to forget those of athletic directors and general managers and owners of pro teams. Keeping a confidence. Risking it.
Top doctors, I have come to believe, are as big a menace to your health as top money managers are to your bank account. They are almost never available to talk to.
Managers will tell people what to do, whereas leaders will inspire them to do it, and there are a few things that go into the ability to inspire.
Trying to get the talk show, looking back on it, we had to beg a lot of station managers to pick up the show because people thought no one would watch it because I’m openly gay.
Managers come to clubs bringing players with them and they want to pick them at all costs – whether they are any good or not.
We must have the time to create strict rules so that property is not sold by Communist managers for a low price. They often get payments under the table to sell to the first bidder. This does not build public support for a market economy.
Football is a team sport. I’m proud of what I achieved in my career, but I also know that I wouldn’t have achieved any of it without the support of my team-mates. I played with great players, great managers, and in great teams.
No one controlled Frank Sinatra or told him how to sing. No secret group of managers has been telling someone like Jay-Z what to do or how to look. And no one tells me what to do except me and the people who believe in me.
It was frustrating when the managers would change; you’d go to the bench and try to work your way back into the team. But it makes you stronger.
A federal Voters’ Bill of Rights could press the states to put non-partisan managers in charge of elections.
As an actor sometimes we sit and wait for projects to be handed to us and we don’t really work. We expect our agents and managers to know who we are and to see who we are and offer us a part or send us out and submit us.
Now, I think you’ll find a lot of rappers and artists are getting girl managers. It just makes sense. The guys in my team have learnt a lot from bringing girls in.
I grew up in a lot of stage managers’ booths, memorizing the lines. I’m sure I was the most annoying child in existence.
It’s difficult working with very rich actors, because inevitably they become a little spoilt, and the managers and agents tend to control things more than is healthy.
Vampires are sleek demons for good times. They suavely leech off society – like investment bankers who plunder outsize shares of deals for themselves or rapacious fund managers.
At the end of the day, it’s the general managers’ and the scouts’ opinion on you and what teams need, what they’re looking for.
There are managers who always say what people want to hear. I think that’s not good.
I’ve never encountered homophobia in casting from the studios or networks – not once, not ever. Where you encounter it is with the agents and the managers, they’re the ones who have an outdated notion of the price an actor might pay if it’s discovered that they’re LGBTQ.
Sir Alex Ferguson must be very high up on the list of greatest managers ever. Then there is Fabio Capello, and people forget how much Giovanni Trapattoni achieved at Inter and especially Juventus.
Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, ‘Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.’ Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too!
Bobby Heenan to me, he was the best. Of all the guys that have been managers that can pick up a microphone and talk, he was a natural and so good. His character like mine was so hated, it was like a little weasel.
I have no problem with anyone’s view about what we do, I really don’t. Very rarely does it stick in my craw what managers or media outlets say about us.
I can play in six different positions where managers can trust me. It must give them food for thought knowing I can do a job in different positions.
We need business leaders who have a respect for technical issues even if they don’t have technical backgrounds. In a lot of U.S. industries, including cars and even computers, many managers don’t think of technology as a core competency, and this attitude leads them to farm out technical issues.
There are so many clubs with great squads, good managers, good financial situations that allows them to sign good players.
Managers develop organisations; leaders develop people.
Managers tend to blame their turnover problems on everything under the sun, while ignoring the crux of the matter: people don’t leave jobs; they leave managers.
The way I was brought up by my parents and guided through my football life by the influences of various managers means that in some ways I am black and white.
Managers live and die by their recruitment.
Do business managers have a commitment to anything more than the success of their company and to making money? It would be hard to say that they do. Indeed, many business leaders deny that there is any conflict between self-interest and the interests of all.
I’ve always admired great football managers, and Sir Alex Ferguson had so much success.
I think people don’t really understand how much footballers are affected by the people in their lives. When we’re interviewed, people always ask about managers and tactics and training, but they almost never ask about what’s going on off the pitch, and to me, that’s just as important to your career.
Berbatov is a great talent, there is no question about that, and as coaches and managers we demand more from great talents.
At the end of the day, what people will give credit for is how Octobers turn out. That’s how it works for Yankees managers.
Peer-to-peer lenders originally sought to attract retail investors to its loan marketplace, but the lack of high-returning assets elsewhere in the market has made these platforms increasingly attractive to major asset managers and hedge funds.
We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn’t always possible for women to become doctors or managers or insurance people. Let them be armed with a true picture of the way we want it to be.
All of the top managers I have come across during my career and befriend, they suffer as much with the defeats and when things don’t go their way late in life as they did early in life.
I don’t like having managers.
The objective of the customer is not being met if the fund managers are diversifying their assets into hundreds of businesses. If they do this, they are typically performing close to the indexes. But that’s not the way wealth is created.
One of the interesting things I’ve found is that crunch is the result of crunch culture rather than the result of managers coming and saying, ‘Okay, we’ve gotta work overtime.’
Having companies like PotashCorp based in Saskatoon or Cameco based in Saskatoon that have worldwide presence but have the head office jobs, the head office managers and head office employees in your local economy are important from a job creation and wealth creation point of view.
Some hedge fund managers have made big bucks trading oil futures – George Soros is one.
The two managers I worked under longest are Gerard Houllier and Rafa Benitez. I have so much respect for the two of them.
I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.
Believing in the good of humanity is a revolutionary act – it means that we don’t need all those managers and CEO’s, kings and generals. That we can trust people to govern themselves and make their own decisions.
Managers are the most creative people in the world.
I founded SkyBridge – an alternative investment management company focused on seeding and partnering with emerging managers and mentoring Wall Street’s next generation of Wall Street’s entrepreneurs – in 2005.
Everyone has their own background and some managers are Premier League footballers, international footballers, some of them find themselves getting jobs.
I’m just not into the whole begging for a title fight, managers try to get a whole campaign going… If you want to give me the title shot, then just give it to me, I’ll show up and I’ll perform, but for me, my fighting speaks for itself.
The Fox News that I know and work in is a team of producers, technicians, photographers, truck operators and production managers who barely have time to eat lunch, much less engage in bad behavior.
I feel that sometimes managers think that, if they can come up with a tactic that leads to success in a major game, they can get all the plaudits.
I’m happy that I have agents and managers that believe in me.
For managers like me what is our dream? Is it what I did with Newcastle when we finished fifth? Or what Roy Hodgson did in taking Fulham to the Europa League final?
Managers are driving the ship, so to speak, without actually being on the pitch, so every manager I’ve worked under here definitely deserves credit.
