Managers Quotations | Page 6

If managers find a diamond in the rough, good research pays off.

I never talk about anything we do in our business, especially as it relates to rumors. I wonder if those general managers are as interested in what's going on with their ball clubs as they are in ours.

I never dreamed I'd be a spokesman for anything. But Pac Bell just asked me. The money was OK; the scripts were fun because I had to do in 30 seconds what it takes a whole feature to do and because the dysfunctional family of agents, managers and lawyers who represent me said it was cool.

In a tradition second in wonderful absurdity only to 60-year-old baseball managers wearing uniforms and spikes in the dugout, golf spectators come dressed ready to play 18.

I'm not worried about 8,000 hedge funds, ... I'm worried about 400 or 500 of them ? that's what could start the ball rolling down the hill. While most hedge fund managers are pretty smart and knowledgeable, it doesn't take too many to start a rout. One nervous cow and you could start a stampede.

I'm big on saving, but big institutions are not promoting savings. If one of the big money managers launched a savings fund with very low barriers, they'd have to be prepared to take a hit on profits and they don't seem ready to do that.

I'm a union member and I understand their importance. But, for managers to see them as partners in engaging with the workforce, they must show their understanding of the pressures for change and how they can help to deliver it.

If you put all your chips on 'red 39,' of course you're going to win from time to time, ... Obviously you get periods when active managers look like they're adding value, when they're really just in a different part of the market.

If you look at the number of platforms being brought to market from HP, IBM, and Sun, it's providing a lot of choice for consumers and IT managers to be able to more fully deploy Opteron in the different form factors they require for their enterprises,

In the face of the seemingly insurmountable hurdle of Ms. Lewinsky's repeated denials that anyone ever asked or encouraged her to lie, the managers have persisted in arguing and continue to do so that the president did somehow encourage her to lie, even if she didn't know it, ... But neither the fact on which they rely nor their hypothesis was of much help to the managers before Ms. Lewinsky's deposition, and neither, surely, has any force after her deposition.

In the context of an IRA or 401(k), there should be managers who do better than tax-efficient funds. When it comes to taxable accounts, I think it's relatively rare to find a manager with a high turnover approach that does better than one with a tax-managed approach.

Institutional activism is a double-edged sword. When prudently applied, activism can provide effective monitoring of publicly traded corporations. When abused, portfolio managers can pursue their personal agendas at the expense of those whose money they manage.

In my opinion, the patents are worthless, IT managers and entrepreneurs shouldn't be afraid of patents. They can safely ignore them.

In our factory the managers say if you want to go on working, you'd better vote for Lukashenko. It's the same dictatorship we had in Soviet times.

Innovation needs to be encouraged so that land managers can seize opportunities related to climate change mitigation and adoption.

In our works at Bethlehem and San Francisco, and all over the United States, I adopted this system: I pay the managers practically no salary. I make them partners in the business, only I don't let them share in the efforts of any other man.

In this last movie, I gave it quite a lot of thought to my character, and I fell back on a lot of managers and agents that I've had, and my early New York days where comics would sit around a table doing jokes and the managers would have jokes, and so I based it on a lot of that.

In this economic downturn we have too many managers and not enough true leaders to act as change agents and make rain!

I haven't heard that talk so I haven't had to deal with it. If I had, I would have just got on with my job anyway. You go into football and you know that managers can be sacked at any time, but you just have to get on with your job and do it as well as you can.

I haven't talked to anybody. We have a unique situation where everyone is out of a contract at the end of the year, so it's not surprising he hasn't done anything with me because he's got general managers to take care of, too. It complicates the situation, to say the least.

In the real estate industry, we are concerned about the precedent it sets to let banks be property managers and brokers.

Internet stocks have enjoyed a strong run-up recently while traditional technology stocks have fared less well. Managers are voicing their bullishness across all styles of growth - large-cap, mid-cap and small-cap - and this sentiment has clearly found its way into the technology sector.

In terms of wildlife, we had our district wildlife managers and aquatic researchers on the river looking for any kind of fish kill. About 5 p.m., or during first 12 hours, we have found no dead fish. That doesn't mean we won't.

Interviews provide an opportunity for employers to become more acquainted with applicants. Hiring managers are looking for candor, professionalism and a glimpse into the candidate's personality.

If you were on the board of directors of a company and you got results like this, ... you would lean on the managers to fix the problem or get rid of them.

If the manager has any criticism of me I want him to say it to my face. I want a managers to talk to me after the game but before going to his news conference.

I put out a little bucket and just get out there and start playing. I have gotten kicked out a couple times, but most of the time at least the managers are cool about it. They are like 'we love hearing you when you play, but we just can't allow you to play here.' But I have had a couple managers come out, and they will open the door to the store because they enjoy hearing it.

Clearly, if we take a stock out at $2, and 6 months later it's trading at $10, we look silly and people who invest in the index will say, 'I missed a five-times gain'. But in talking to people who run index funds, the vast majority of managers say take the low-priced stocks out,

His desire to focus on specific core funds has given me the opportunity to redistribute assets to managers whose talents warrant larger assignments.

His goal is to find the best possible technical managers so the shuttle and the space station, especially the shuttle, are operated in the safest possible manner for the rest of their service lives.

Before you consider how to deal with these issues on an individual worker level, you've got to first step back and look higher, and ask managers if they know what it means to manage knowledge workers, ... Our mental image of efficiency is rooted in the factory scene from Charlie Chaplin's 'Modern Times,' and managers base performance on how many widgets fly out the door. But customers and raw information aren't widgets, and you can't expect to handle them according to schedule.

Beginning last week, we have been in close contact with our federal partners, site managers at various locations of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and companies that operate oil refineries to prepare for any disruption in oil production.

He's outgoing. He's never in his office, ... Some managers are stuck in their office and don't socialize with everyone else. He's out here joking around, laughing, keeping everyone loose. I think it starts with him, as far as keeping our team loose.

I don't know if you're seeing short-selling as much as money managers of growth funds getting out now that they can see growth isn't going to be more than 10 percent. St. Jude doesn't meet their benchmark standard for their funds.

Charlie's a good baseball man and he's been around the game for a long time, ... He can evaluate players mentally and physically. A lot of managers can't do that.

Cheung Kong is still experiencing pressure on the MSCI removal because fund managers still hold quite a big chunk of the stock so it will take time to offload.

He's a guy who has done it in the past. There's a lot of different ways to look at it, but it's what helps you produce runs. Obviously on-base percentage is something you look at, but there's a feel you get. What's the feel of the lineup? You see how guys complement each other and the problems you present other managers late in the game.

General managers (of San Francisco hotels) have told me that there is more than a handful (of hotel owners) who are in agreement,

Good managers know the work ethic of each of their employees and know who's a producer and who's a slacker.

The prime occupational hazard of a manager is superficiality.

There’s only two types of manager. Those who’ve been sacked and those who will be sacked in then future

If Fidelity decides to put its equity-fund managers in Timbuktu and they continue to deliver, the CEO of GE or whoever will continue to beat a path to Fidelity's door to make sure their story gets told.

If I'm tired, he'll respect that. He knows I'm only human. A lot of managers don't know that. You know, they think you're a machine that can just keep going and going.

I can't think of many managers who like studio stocks. It's a business with pretty uncertain returns. You can lose your shirt making a handful of movies.

I don't think the money managers are going to go rushing into stocks just simply because we got to Dow 10,000.

I don't see those managers making their jobs three-month temporary jobs, and they're saying it's good for their workers.

I don't see IT managers replacing servers just for environmental reasons, but if it's to slash 40 percent to 50 percent off electricity costs, that's serious money.

I chose him because he really knew how to box for real. Omar is so good that several times boxing trainers and managers were trying to actually sign him to a contact.

Case managers are what did it for me. What did my way get me for 25 years?

Gore is putting himself as the populist candidate to fight against those big companies. You'd have to say Wall Street, right now, views Gore with fear and trepidation because he's attacked those industries in his campaign. What's been very strong has been healthcare so healthcare stocks are telling you Bush is going to win. Money managers are putting their money up front.

Gordon has done a very good job. I have loads of applications from top managers throughout the UK in my top drawer, but I haven't opened the drawer for weeks,

He's pulling him off! The Spanish manager is pulling his captain off

My manager always preaches golf comes first.

People leave managers, not companies

I have really good managers and agents who are very selective in what they send me.

I've been very fortunate and privileged as a player and manager - I've been successful and picked up a lot of knowledge and experience,

Your time as a manager is finite and valuable.

You could be playing catch with somebody on the side ? one of the managers ? and you drop the ball, we're going to be running on the sideline after practice.

You can't talk enough. You can't communicate enough. It makes people feel that Peter may be gone and Bob may be hurt, but there are managers who are still steering the ship. They want to know that the organization is not in free-fall.

You can only control for what you can control. And without a really good understanding of the risk a hedge fund is taking, you're in the dark. And don't forget that what you're really buying when you invest in a hedge fund is your claim on a manager's skill and insight. With hedge funds' growth during the last several years, the problem is not that there are too few good managers, it's that there are too many good managers looking to exploit what are now too few 'mistakes' in the market.

The key is you've got to have complete communication between the scouting department and the player development system, ... There's a game plan for each and every person who comes into our system. We talk about the players and what we would like them to do, then communicate that to all the instructors, managers and coaches so everybody is on the same page.

The key is to study the individual fund managers and their track records.

The truth is that ultimately, voters vote for candidates, not managers or consultants. Political operatives can affect things on the margins, but candidates are the ones with the vision.

These guys are the best advertisement we could have. Each of them was the case of a coach resurrecting a franchise that had fallen onto hard times. You would think that there would be some owners and general managers out there who would want to take a much deeper look and step outside the box.

These games are just Mickey Mouse matches and an absolute nightmare for managers like myself,

These funds will allow UW-Oshkosh to track energy use trends through the collection of metered data and will enable facility managers and others to further optimize energy conservation on campus. We're extremely please that we can help UW-Oshkosh in its aggressive pursuit of wise environmental stewardship.

These funds are not there for the money managers or advisors or anybody else with a special relationship to skim off of. This isn't their little cookie jar.

This is a logical extension of our core payroll software business. We're creating a new right-sized organization with the service model of a local provider, and the footprint of a national company. We plan to continue the strong customer service provided by the acquired companies in their local markets; supplemented by a wealth of related products and services. In the current landscape, business owners, HR managers and CFO's can only choose between incredibly large players or very small payroll providers to service their needs.

A lot about the game has changed, and thankfully, much of it is for the better. There is still work to do, but today we have a Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, we have black owners, managers and executives of teams...and look what Nike has done! The Untold Truth Collection represents more than a jersey or a pair of sneakers. It represents our lives, our story, our legacy.

All managers carry a crisis binder, a checklist of what you need to do. The very first thing the company does is account for their customers and employees. Once that process was done, what we want you to know are the facts. We never speculate.

The House managers submit witnesses are essential to give heightened credence to whatever judgment the Senate chooses to make on each of the articles of impeachment against President Clinton.

The (House) managers spent much of their time last week explaining to you why, if only witnesses could be called, you would be able to resolve all of the supposed conflicts in the evidence,

The House managers have decided that they need to talk to Ms. Lewinsky before making a recommendation to the Senate to depose her. The action of the House managers is not unusual. It is not unfair, and it is not contrary to the rules of the Senate.

The evidence in this case speaks for itself, ... Top managers knew market timing was harming buy-and-hold investors but they condoned and facilitated it because it was a lucrative source of management fee revenues.

The emergence of the global economy and a trend of operational budget reductions has been putting pressure on facility managers to identify areas that could be modified in order to obtain greater optimization and efficiency ... While a standard paper based inspection system satisfies the need of taking actual readings, it does little to ensure the data is complete and accurate and provides no means of analyzing historical data to locate potential bottlenecks, redundancies or other areas that could be enhanced by altering its process.

The euphoria we saw at the beginning of the year about the world experiencing a synchronized cyclical recovery has disappeared. While it doesn't feel like a recession is around the corner, fund managers are clearly less confident that the recovery can be sustained.

A lot of managers tell their G.M. what they want to hear, ... I won't do that. I won't lie to him. I won't talk to him as a boss. I'll fight him.

You've got a lot of factors here all coming into play. Oil is having a negative impact and the pre-announcement news from Viacom was significant. You also had all the banks reporting strong earnings yesterday, but yet they're selling them off two days in a row, and we're near the end of the quarter and you've got portfolio managers wanting to cash out of the rally's recent leaders.

You've got a lot of factors here all coming into play, ... Oil is having a negative impact and the pre-announcement news from Viacom was significant. You also had all the banks reporting strong earnings yesterday, but yet they're selling them off two days in a row, and we're near the end of the quarter and you've got portfolio managers wanting to cash out of the rally's recent leaders.

The general managers understand where the game is at and they don't want to be dinosaurs. They're willing to look at things because we all understand we have to bring some interest back.

The general managers are making an effort in an attempt to be more efficient in our drafting and development, ... As with everything new, we are aware there will be logistical challenges. But it is our hope that we can subtly reshape the system to work more efficiently for us as an industry.

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The earnings have been mixed. Given the valuations in the technology sector, I think it is causing portfolio managers to get a little nervous and take some profits.

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.

The funny thing about it, you can go anywhere in the world, from Belgium to Birmingham, and everyone knows and respects him. I've worked with other tour managers who are fun to hang out with, but who don't get the job done. With Gus, the band comes first.

The fund industry needs heroes. You need star managers to generate interest.

The changes improve accountability and reduce complexity in our management structure. Aligning our managers directly with our key priorities will result in better execution and effectiveness.

The chair is actually from our agency's promotion department. It was originally intended to be used by the agency or district managers for recruiting.

The communication between the managers and the rest of the town staff is better,

The market is very thin. Even in the best of times, fund managers don't tend to go crazy over the Philippines because liquidity is so tight in the secondary market.

The managers will roll up their sleeves and do whatever work needs to be done - including me.

The managers have messed up big time, ... The athletes haven't. Our job is to go to work for the athletes.

The managers appear to be recommending a heavily Canadian approach to asset allocation.

The market has done pretty well this week. I think the fund managers that took a more cautious stance after Hurricane Katrina may be doing a little buying now, but it's a quiet day.

The market is attempting to stabilize after a terrific run, ... Many stocks moved up without any fundamental underpinnings and corporate earnings, by and large, look less than impressive. Portfolio managers are looking for visibility of earnings over the next quarter or two.

The location managers for Underworld 2 were scouting our tank while we were using it and were scheduled to move in after we finished,

The list of future England managers should not be left until one day after the current manager has disappeared. All of a sudden everyone's in panic, running round all over the place, sometimes not quite sure of what the credentials for the job are. It gets the next bloke off on a bad foot, and that is why the process should be more streamlined and easier than this - certainly it should be quicker.

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

The system metaphor is a story that everyone--customers, programmers, and managers--can tell about how the system works.

If I Had To Sum Up In One Word The Qualities That Make Up A Good Manager, I'd Say Decisiveness.