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Manager Quotes

Certainly, R.E.M. grew out of the Wuxtry record store in Athens, where Peter Buck was working and Michael Stipe came in to visit. And even their later manager, Bertis Downs, they all met and congregated at that record store. So I’m sure we wouldn’t see those without the record store.

– Gary Calamar

Only 38 per cent of players in the Premier League are English; that is a damning statistic. Soon, the England manager will have to go scouting for players in the Championship – and when I say ‘soon’ I mean the next four or five years, perhaps even for the next World Cup.

– Glenn Hoddle

What I have against M.B.A.s is the assumption that you come out of a two-year program probably never having been a manager – at least for full-time younger people M.B.A. programs – and assume you are ready to manage.

– Henry Mintzberg

I’m not the manager because I’m always right, but I’m always right because I’m the manager.

– Gene Mauch

I’m a car nut. My father was a parts manager at a Chevrolet dealership.

– John Lasseter

I feel like I have reached the stage where I can no longer produce for my club, my manager, and my teammates.

– Joe DiMaggio

I followed an Italian manager and it cannot be easy when you follow a manager who thinks very differently.

– Jose Mourinho

My mother is my manager and so knows exactly what I do and so on.

– Jonathan Brandis

Then, in 2000, John Reid, Elton John’s former manager, asked me to audition for the stage version of The Graduate he was producing. So I worked on it, got the part, and after three weeks’ rehearsal I was on stage!

– Jerry Hall

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

– J. Tillman

Getting fired is what happens to a manager sooner or later.

– Joe Torre

Ex-Fidelity mutual fund manager Peter Lynch was certainly brilliant in one respect: he knew to get out when the gettin’ was good.

– Bill Gross

Often, investors will discover a manager after he’s had a terrific run, usually when he lands on a magazine cover somewhere. Invariably, funds swell up with new investor money just before they revert to their long-term averages.

– Barry Ritholtz

A manager doesn’t hear the cheers.

– Alvin Dark

I wouldn’t say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.

– Brian Clough

If a chairman sacks the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well.

– Brian Clough

Any artist manages his own business along with his manager. Every band should.

– Art Alexakis

I never had the slightest desire to be a major league manager, and all knew it. But Ban Johnson, Bob Hedges, and Jimmy McAleer persuaded me that the Browns were in a sort of a jam, and it was up to me, as an old standby, to do what I could.

– Bobby Wallace

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.

– Andy Kindler

When I got hoarse, the manager would say, ‘Drink this. Joplin used to drink this,’ and I used to say, ‘Joplin? Joplin’s dead.

– Cyndi Lauper

I hit a grand slam off Ron Herbel and when his manager Herman Franks came out to get him, he was bringing Herbel’s suitcase.

– Bob Uecker

I’m a big baseball fan, and I feel proprietary about the Dodgers. I’m not the owner. I’m not the manager. But I feel passionate about the decisions that they make, and I take it personally when they make decisions I don’t like.

– Carlton Cuse

What I would say about Barney Eastwood is that when our relationship worked, it worked extremely well. He had a lot of strengths as a promoter and a manager.

– Barry McGuigan

If I have one skill as a manager, I can make things extremely clear.

– Ben Horowitz

A manager wins games in the winter when he picks his team.

– Earl Weaver

Many artists stick to making and hire a manager to focus on their business. Artists that build websites and mobile apps can do that, too.

– Fred Wilson

The manager is to be blamed who distributes parts to his players which they are unable to act.

– Franz Schubert

I’ve had to step up when I was Al Gore’s campaign manager. I had to make significant changes as we moved from Washington, D.C. to Tennessee.

– Donna Brazile

Your time as a manager is finite and valuable.

– Matthew Yglesias

I went and worked at a TV station in Stillwater. I was actually account manager for commercial accounts, selling ad space and everything.

– Daniel Cormier

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