Manager Quotes

“Talent is the multiplier. The more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield. The time you spend with your best is, quite simply, your most productive time.”
― Marcus Buckingham, First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently

“Contrary to popular opinion, leadership is not a reserved position for a particular group of people who were elected or appointed, ordained or enthroned. Leadership is self-made, self-retained, self-inculcated and then exposed through a faithful, sincere and examplary life.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“Self-leaders are still true leaders even if they have no known followers. True leaders inspire by the influence of their characters and general self-made brands. Leadership is defined by the virtues of one's behaviour.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“Remember the Golden Rule? "Treat people as you would like to be treated." The best managers break the Golden Rule every day. They would say don't treat people as you would like to be treated. This presupposes that everyone breathes the same psychological oxygen as you. For example, if you are competitive, everyone must be similarly competitive. If you like to be praised in public, everyone else must, too. Everyone must share your hatred of micromanagement.”
― Marcus Buckingham

“Most people don't need to be babied through business processes. Most often, what they need is a clear understanding of the objective and access to available resources. From there, they'll leverage their own creative capacity and skillsets to ensure that the objective is accomplished.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Self-leaders do not look for followers because they are busily pursuing their influencial dreams that followers will trace and ask for. Followers look for influence and that can be obtained from self-leaders.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“A young child is a leader to an elderly person once his purpose has a faithful, sincere and trustworthy influence on people. Leadership is not restricted to position and age; it is self-made and influencial. Everyone has this self-leadership quality.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“The sign of a good leader is easy to recognize, though it is hardly ever seen. For the greatest leaders are those who share as equals in the trials and struggles, the demands and expectations, the hills and trenches, the laws and punishments placed upon the backs of those governed. A great leader is motivated not by power but by compassion. Therefore he can do nothing but make himself a servant to those whom he rules. Such a leader is unequivocally respected, and loved for loving.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

“You can be in your room and lead people. Just develop your potentials and publicize them and you will see people looking for your product. That is influence; self-made leaders do not look for followers. Followers look for them.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“A true leader is still a leader even when he takes up servants' duty, provided he maintains a human face and added integrity to his self-retained qualities.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“The concept of leadership is abused by people who think a person becomes a leader when he grows grey hair, put into a position and expected to function. Everyone has a leadership potential carried within in a specific area of his or purpose. Leadership is universal and built on trust.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“A good manager is more easier to compliment peoples strengths than they are to criticize their weaknesses.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“One person’s hero is another’s enemy.”
― Steven Magee

“You know your company is in financial trouble when you cannot get a paper clip without filling in a form to request it from your manager!”
― Steven Magee

“Good managers execute as well as motivate. Not all leaders need to be managers, but all managers need to be good leaders. While managing is an art; leadership is a skill that needs to be inculcated and enforced while executing assignments through subordinates”
― Henrietta Newton Martin- Author Strategic Human Resource Management - A Primer

“Paul Turovsky’s prolific experience in real estate has equipped him as an expert trainer for superintendents and agents. He understands the mechanics of property management and is well-versed in conflict resolution and tenant education. Mr. Turovsky brings over 15 years of experience to muti-level project management and has led accomplished teams of real estate professionals. He is people-oriented and has a proven track record of excellence.”
― Paul Turovsky

“I was the original Florida Power & Light manager of their DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center.”
― Steven Magee

“I was the manager of the largest solar photovoltaic power system in the USA in 2009.”
― Steven Magee

“I was the manager of the world's largest telescopes.”
― Steven Magee

“I had never seen exploding electrical fuses in my career until I became the manager of the Desoto Solar Farm.”
― Steven Magee

“As the manager of the Desoto Solar Farm, I started to slowly become aware it was dangerous from private conversations with the field workers that were involved with its construction.”
― Steven Magee

“Hero today, enemy tomorrow.”
― Steven Magee

“Managers will become entrepreneurial and more directly responsible for top-line growth and bottom-line profits.”
― Richie Norton, Anti-Time Management: Reclaim Your Time and Revolutionize Your Results with the Power of Time Tipping

“My time as a middle manager was a decade spent in high altitude professional astronomy. I found myself in a ‘Piggy In The Middle’ situation. The management team wanted a well performing telescope that was free of issues and the people I was managing appeared lethargic! I later discovered through research that the high altitude exposures drain them of energy. The high altitude workers end up in a state of mal-acclimatization, where they are never acclimatized to the mountain and they are never acclimatized to sea level. After a decade working at high altitude, I was also lethargic! It was a relief to leave the field of professional astronomy. I spent the following decades characterizing the toxicity of professional astronomy and I discovered a new sickness called ‘Altitude Hypersensitivity’.”
― Steven Magee

“In weak culture managers only win, in strong culture teams win.”
― Dax Bamania, Discover the Future

“I am the master and the internet is my slave.”
― Steven Magee

“The internet is my bitch!”
― Steven Magee

“Before you hire, ask yourself how much your hiring decision is linked to the ways the candidate is similar to you.”
― Binod Shankar, Let's Get Real: 42 Tips for the Stuck Manager

“I was complaining about a messy worker I supervised to my manager. They took me to an office that looked like a bomb had been dropped on it and told me, "He is one of our top researchers!".”
― Steven Magee

“the Keeper."

"He didn’t like loud and brash women. He didn’t like people looking him straight in the eyes. He didn’t like women who were too shy, too delicate, too strong, or too strong-smelling. He didn’t like to be touched or spoken to. He liked to look, to have his questions answered simply and quickly. He didn’t like his time wasted. He sounded like an asshole. No wonder Vidrol had appointed him.”
― Jane Washington, A Dream of Embers