Pep Guardiola Quotes

Even as an 18-year-old, I had to grow comfortable with my leadership style, which is that I was really impatient with under-motivated people - extremely impatient, to the point where I was counterproductive as a manager of underproductive people. And that hasn't really changed. If people need to be motivated, I'm no good.

Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.

When you're in a leadership role, you can never please all of the people all of the time. There's also a lot of responsibility that goes along with it that others may not realize.

Basically, managing is about influencing action. Managing is about helping organizations and units to get things done, which means action. Sometimes, managers manage actions directly. They fight fires. They manage projects. They negotiate contracts.

I am learning how to delegate and how to empower people.

The key to good management is keeping the guys on your team who hate your guts away from the guys who haven't made up their minds.

I think it is rewarding to manage, but it is not what I am passionate about. Managing more than 200 people, maybe 150 people, isn't fun to me and is not my skill set.

When you work, you know you can have some problem with the players. This is normal because the manager wants the players to work hard, play well, and the players should understand this.

Naturally, managers and coaches are trying to find different ways to work.

Many fine coaches never become great managers.

When you're a leader and a manager, you have to make decisions which are right for your group to achieve the primary objective. Sometimes those decisions will be criticised.

People need to know their role to produce performances and results.

When you give your team five innings, you don't really feel good about five innings.

It's difficult to be a coach.

Keeping people on their toes is the best way to get the best out of people.

One of the main tasks of a manager is psychology.

The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness.

When I see my staff take a step back because I've lost my cool about something food-related, I say never apologise for your standards. If someone doesn't meet them, then you should explain that and that you want it changed. I want my staff to be like that, too.

I am pretty tough as a boss.

Being a manager is about getting into the minds of the people you represent.

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.

Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.

A good leader should focus on making sure everyone is being given the tools to do their job, not just expecting - poof! - that they're going to produce great work.

Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.

For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.