Quotes About Management

The effective use of time is the best-kept secret of those who have created a successful life and continue to experience it every day.

The bureaucrat is a man who administers things and people, and who relates himself to people as to things.

We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home.

For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men.

Men have the grand vision, and they pass it on to somebody else to put into practice. Women follow the details more, they want to know that it is being put into practice.

As a player, you can be more spontaneous and instinctive, but now as a coach I have to find a psychological balance within the team.

All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none. So when the fighter is through, he is through. While he was fighting his management was very excited for him, but now that he is done, that management team is moving on.

Sport is an entertainment, in one sense. But it's also a business.

What is nice about this sport is that I am responsible for most everything.

In the organization of any major sporting event or the planning of a building, long-term thinking is key.

Sports federations must try to be professional in trying to market their sport.

I have to put people in the right spot so that if they execute, we win.

There's a lot of fighters that pop up out of the blue that you never heard of. They just don't have the management or the promotion team or the spotlight, you know, to be seen. That's the ones you've gotta watch out for.

I am very reactive and malleable. I have to figure out when to be hands on and hands off. If I am hands on all the time, I can't do too much. But my attitude works in a certain way. So the idea is to spread your personality, your attitude.

One way to reduce the need for layoffs would be to cut back on hours, spreading the available work among more employees.

I was a coach at Spurs for 15 years. I did want to go into management but what was important to me was doing a very good job in whatever capacity I was employed.

I went through 15 years as a coach at Spurs working under seven, eight different managers. And every time a manager went, you weren't sure whether you'd still be there. Some people might worry about these things but I never have.

What matters is getting the best out of the squad you have.

I'm really happy to be working with Jose Mourinho. He's a great person and he's always keen to communicate with the squad and help people to be communicative regarding what they're to do on the pitch.

I'm so grateful to Ferguson. I think he's the best there's ever been, especially his squad management skills.

Managers now don't just use 11 players; they have to care about all the squad of 25 or more players.

I have to treat all of the players at the same level with the same rules and same demands. It's difficult to understand, because the outside world is thinking when you pay a lot for the player, then you have to put him in the squad.

You will never see United manager Sir Alex Ferguson in the media taking problems he has or the squad has or the club has into the open. Never, ever. But you do see that at Manchester City.

It is nice to pick a squad or train players for 30 minutes, but I do not like the life of a coach.