Top 610 Manager Quotes

I’ve never taken the steps to be ‘successful’: I’ve never had a manager or signed to a publishing house.

When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.

Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success.

The first person besides my mother who believed in me was a man whose last name I never knew. He was my boss, the manager of Swenson’s Ice Cream shop.

The accumulation and cross-generational transmission of wealth in the United States has gone way too far. When a young hedge-fund manager can take home a sum reminiscent of the gross national product of a small country, something is askew.

I’ve put in 63 years now in the big leagues as a player, coach, manager. And now just being around these young guys, it keeps you going pretty good.

I’m a technical manager, but I don’t have to take care of people. I only have to worry about technology itself.

I have a wonderful road manager, and he travels with me. And my valet and friend travels with me. My little entourage is great, and they take good care of me.

I didn’t really have a position when I was younger; I just used to play where the manager told me to play.

We did not have anyone like a manager, who could guide us and make it happen.

When you have a good relationship with a manager, and he leaves, it is disappointing.

United have some world-class players with a world-class manager.

We don’t need a psychologist with the Dutch team; we are grown-up men. The ones who have a problem with other players or the manager should tell them face-to-face. That is the only psychology we need.

I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager.

I was 16 when I linked up with my manager – first person I ever auditioned for – and I’ve been in this ever since.

I did improv classes just like any kid would do soccer or gymnastics or swimming. At one of my showcases, my manager came to my mom and said, ‘We would like to represent your daughter.’ My mom asked me that night if I would like to actually act, and I said, ‘Why not? I’ll give it a try!’

My band got signed in high school when I was 16, and we all dropped out of high school and went on tour. Then I quit the band because I was the manager, and I was doing everything, so I went solo.

Decisiveness is the one word that makes a good manager.

You feel like a stud out there when people swing and miss. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve preached to our young guys that strikeouts are sexy, but outs are outs, man, no matter how you get them. It’s a lot cooler for me pitching in the seventh or eighth inning than it is going 5 1/3. Your manager likes it a lot more, too.

The family is something you are always missing, but it has to be like this. It is not easy for any manager to be with your family, in your house, and working at your nearest club. So you have to travel.

Fashion is like a four-legged table: you need a good designer, a very good business manager, a good manufacturer, and a very good distributor. Without all the legs, table collapses.

Growing up, my dad drank a lot of wine, so I got a taste for, and learned how to enjoy it. He spoke a lot about flavors and differences in tastes of wine. Also, our manager, Rick Sales, is a big wine drinker; he goes to a lot of wine-tasting classes, and he’s taught me about the qualities of wine.

Coaches are an integral part of any manager’s team, especially if they are good pinochle players.

I think, when a manager has been at a club for more than 20 years, he can only have a positive impact.

We’ve been lucky. Even as a young, local-level band, we were able to rise out of the local scene without having any debt, without having signed the wrong deal with the wrong manager or the wrong booker or a small label.

My dad used to work in the theater as a stage manager, production manager, and lighting designer.

The Porto players were with me for two and a half years, they believed in me, in my methods, in the way we do it. The next day I go and a manager arrives who works completely differently.

My manager came up with the name ‘State of the Industry,’ and it was just one of those things. It just took off. Well, I don’t know about ‘took off.’ I’m not in the stratosphere.

I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager.

I wanted to design a line based on Hollywood’s Golden Era. I talked with Stephen Burrows and with Willi Smith and with one or two other people, but it just seems like such a hard field to break into. I need someone like Calvin Klein’s manager to get behind me!

I love football so when I finish playing I would like to still be involved in it somehow and a manager would be my first choice.

I have never seen myself as a promoter. I always evaluate myself as a manager.

The attacking capacity of a team is the fruit of the work of the manager and of the quality of the players.

Every time my manager approached big network executives or even cable, they told him I was too dangerous. They couldn’t trust me.

Just as the England football manager starts with bells and flags and balloons and ends up reviled, so do prime ministers. Tony Blair – is there anyone more despised now? Gordon Brown – all right, nobody voted for him but, you know… just think of any of them. Margaret Thatcher. John Major. Steve McLaren. Fabio Capello.

When I was 18, I had a trial at Benfica, when Sven-Goran Eriksson was the manager. Then, at 21, I was working for a company loading vegetables onto trucks.

Look at how a caretaker has worked for the England rugby team in the Six Nations – they’ve done fantastically. Everyone’s got an edge. No one’s sure of a place, and everyone has an incentive. So I’d back the FA if they decided not to go for a full-time manager yet.

I think the line is where you’re in the studio, you’re creating. That belongs to you as an artist. Nothing should taint that. I shouldn’t be thinking about what the fans want, I shouldn’t be thinking about what the radio wants, what the label wants, what your manager wants, a song for the chicks, a song for the street.

I always got on well with Roberto Mancini and never had a problem with him. Every manager has their own way of working, tactics, and style of play. As a player, you do what the manager says. There are misunderstandings, but generally, everything was fine under Mancini.

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.

At the end of the day, when people say, ‘Oh, she’s an industry plant,’ I’m like, ‘No, I just have representation, like every single other artist you listen to.’ I’m not the first person to get a manager.

I just try and play where the manager puts me as well as possible.

I started out as a business manager for a national hotel chain based in Oklahoma. I got frustrated with what was happening in the state capital – the high cost of doing business and a lack of educated workers.

I got a note from the stage manager one night that someone wanted to meet me. And it was Steven Spielberg.

What the manager says is what’s important to me. What experts say doesn’t interest me and never will. I know what I can do. I’ve not been playing at the top level for nothing. I’ve been successful.

We had a very energetic floor manager and he was always jumping around all over the place. The director would send down messages like, Can you tell that actor to calm down?

When I was 22, I met with some janky manager, and she told me, ‘You’re never going to work at this weight.’ I think I was a size 6 at the time. There is just this weird thing about how we perceive women in this country. I would love to be a part of breaking that down.

The owner’s job is to hire the general manager. The general manager’s job is to run the hockey team.

Everybody knows that Jurgen Klopp is a great manager and a great guy as well.

My most romantic job: I was a manager at Baskin-Robbins.

I moved to New York on October 21, 2004, and it was the day that the Chelsea Grill, a restaurant in Hell’s Kitchen on 9th Avenue between 46th and 47th Street, opened. I had never waited a table in my life, but I walked in and lied to the manager in a very J. Pierrepont Finch way.

I want to be involved as a fan, as a player, as a manager, as a technical director, as a groundsman. It doesn’t matter. Whichever way the club sees me helping them out, I’ll always be around.

I’ve never had a manager, and I’ve had various agents, and, fortunately or unfortunately, I’ve been blessed.

When you’re doing a film, your agent and manager spend hours – days – talking about contractual obligations. If you turn up for work and ask for a peeled grape on top of foie gras but you don’t get it, you can’t get annoyed.

I want to do right, apart from my gender – I want to do right as a campaign manager.