Top 383 Managers Quotes

A white manager loses his job and gets another job, he loses his job, he gets another job. Very few black managers can lose their job and get another job.
John Barnes
Active investment is a zero-sum game. Passive managers don’t play the game. They buy something resembling the market as a whole, or some segment of the market, and they don’t respond to the actions of active managers.
Eugene Fama
If other managers are going to say things I can’t legislate for that, that’s their opinions.
Chris Hughton
I sometimes think I’ve needed a bit of an arm around me in my career – which I’ve not always got from certain managers and coaches who didn’t understand me.
Robbie Fowler
Guardiola, Zidane, who’s doing a great work, Tite, also doing a great job in the national team, Simeone. These are managers I would like to work with some day.
Fabinho
All managers are under pressure. It’s our life, always. It’s about how we manage the pressure, the victory, we have to manage everything, even me – the bookmakers put me under pressure every time!
Claudio Ranieri
I would love for dancers to be treated better and for dancers to have support, for dancers to have managers, agents. This is the only art form that does not have a proper support system.
Sergei Polunin
Since retiring from the FBI in 2007, I’ve traveled the world and worked with everyone from CEOs to their managers and everyday workers on how to apply techniques from hundreds of high-stakes, life-or-death negotiations to business negotiations.
Christopher Voss
In the workplace, many people become helicopter managers, hovering over their employees in a well-intentioned but ill-fated attempt to provide support. These are givers gone awry – people so desperate to help others that they develop a white knight complex and end up causing harm instead.
Adam Grant
I’ve had five managers, and I’ve played with all of them.
Cesar Azpilicueta
I’ve played under some of the biggest and best managers and achieved almost everything in football. Of course it hurts when people question it, but I’ve come to the end of my career and can look back and say I’ve achieved everything with every club that I’ve played for.
David Beckham
To me, as A&R people and as managers, we’re in the business of finding talent. It’s no different than working with these engineers who just want to make good products.
Troy Carter
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
I have spoken on many occasions about what I felt about a lack of black managers at the highest level. Total inclusion is good for our game and that is what I think everyone wants to see.
Chris Hughton
If you’ve worked with your managers or peers to push the envelope and really don’t have a way to grow within your role, it’s not a suitable long-term situation.
Carolyn Aronson
Maybe other managers would see their team score one goal and then prefer to go back and counter-attack, then try to score the second goal. A lot of those managers are the best managers at the moment, but for me, it’s very important to continue the way I play.
Manuel Pellegrini
Today, a skilled manager makes more than the owner. And owners fight each other to get the skilled managers.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
The best managers out there at the moment are Pep Guardiola and Jose Mourinho but they are at other clubs – Real Madrid and Barcelona.
Gary Neville
Good managers ensure good outcomes, but great leaders can deliver a vision by getting people to work together.
Karren Brady
I’ve learned you don’t always listen to your agents and managers. Sometimes they know nothing.
Joan Rivers
I’ve been unlucky because I’ve had a few ups and downs with different managers but I would say I’ve never been out of shape.
Luke Shaw
People aren’t going to talk about it except me and that is communication and the visits I have personally had in our meetings with our store managers saying if you do these things you will be terminated, period.
Lee Scott
I learned so much stuff at Hoffenheim and made a lot of friends. I also made good connections with the managers. They taught me a lot that I can take on in my career.
Reiss Nelson
Different managers give confidence in different ways. Some by hugging, others by talking or having conversations.
Henrikh Mkhitaryan
I’m making a case against how money managers are handling customers’ money. 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.
Michael Lee-Chin
It’s fairly common for new members of Congress to hire their former campaign managers onto their official staff.
Saikat Chakrabarti
Good managers have a bias for action.
Tom Peters
I was always intrigued by management and I wish I could turn the clock back and pick the brains of each of my managers.
Jimmy Bullard
In the Premier League you get the feeling they give you a bit longer to sort out problems. They are more understanding and, most importantly, owners of football clubs don’t think they know more than managers.
Gianluca Vialli
Cameron was able to get an inside look at professional

Cameron was able to get an inside look at professional football from the standpoint of athletes and agents and general managers that few people have ever seen.
Leigh Steinberg
The staff, stage managers, ushers all behaved as if they respected the actors.
Estelle Parsons
When choosing between two similar applicants, hiring managers are increasingly turning to social media outlets to supplement information they are unable to glean from applications or interviews.
Amy Jo Martin
World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic – with many a wink – in the people’s name.
Gore Vidal
When you are young, you always want to improve, to work with great managers – and Arsene Wenger is one of the best in the world.
Gervinho
Jobless workers, especially those out of work for months and years, don’t have the skills to multitask in a fast-paced economy where medical workers need to know electronic record-keeping, machinists need computer skills, and marketing managers can no longer delegate software duties.
Nina Easton
I think sometimes managers like to buy players because they’re more experienced from abroad or when they’ve got players under their nose that will give everything to the club they’ve been brought up with.
Harry Kane
There are a lot of idiot fund managers out there who add no value to the process at all.
Kevin O’Leary
It was Comey who wrecked the FBI and allowed this witches brew of biased managers to simmer and boil over when things didn’t go as he planned.
Lisa Kennedy Montgomery
The principles of disruptive innovation are indeed intended to be guidelines to assist managers both in introducing disruptive innovations as well as identifying disruptive developments in their market.
Clayton M. Christensen
I was often misquoted. I was supportive of my managers, even though they all may not think so.
George Steinbrenner
Looking back at my first job, even when I was asked to do something seemingly menial, unglamorous, or very difficult, I always went all-in. In my most trying moments with managers I liked the least, I did not give up, complain, or slack off.
Clara Shih
Too many managers manage by what the postgame press conference is going to be.
John Kruk
Young English managers don’t get enough time, young black managers aren’t given enough time, there are a lot of reasons why.
John Barnes
Sometimes when I’m watching managers on television and I see all that anxiety I realise that I don’t miss the job as much as I thought.
Neil Warnock
My University of Management will create managers who will float in happiness, success and fulfillment.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
I know that every time I list something that I am, I am potentially alienating a whole group of people. Publicists and managers will encourage you not to say what political party you belong to, what you eat, what you don’t eat, who you sleep with and all that stuff.
Ellen DeGeneres
You, your employer and your plan’s investment managers fail to follow even the most basic rules of investing. You overtrade, chase performance, do not think long term. All of you – All Of You – have done a horrible job managing your retirement plans.
Barry Ritholtz
To have strongly integrated managers who have a deep understanding of technology is a rare and difficult combination to build. You have to invest a lot in selecting and training these people.
Azim Premji
I’m constantly amazed that owners and managers of all businesses don’t train their people to call the person who pays by credit card by name. It definitely makes the customer feel good and will be a factor in bringing them back to your place of business.
Zig Ziglar
The managers are getting paid very well by their respective clubs to do a job for their clubs not the country they are working in.
Alan Shearer
I always think that women are the chaos managers of life.
Teresa Heinz
Juventus’ supporters called for Conte, however this is not the reason why the club signed him. I can explain it better: fans are obviously very important, but thinking that Juventus managers follow their moods would be wrong.
Giorgio Chiellini
There were probably a few games I played where I should not have played, because of some nagging injuries or something. I used to always talk the managers into playing me, because I wanted to play so badly.
Gary Carter
‘StrengthsFinder 2.0’ is an effort to get the core message and language out to a much broader audience. We had no idea how well received the first strengths book would be by general readers – it was oriented more toward managers – or that the energy and excitement would continue to grow.
Tom Rath
Managers of hospitals over the years have been increasingly recruited from outside the health service, and although their experience of running a supermarket chain might allow them to balance the books, it does not mean they have any insight into how a ward should be managed and patients best served.
Jo Brand