Casey Stengel Quotes

The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.

As a goalkeeper you need to be good at organising the people in front of you and motivating them. You need to see what's going on and react to the threats. Just like a good manager in business.

The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.

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

Good leaders need a positive agenda, not just an agenda of dealing with crisis.

Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.

Reading a book about management isn't going to make you a good manager any more than a book about guitar will make you a good guitarist, but it can get you thinking about the most important concepts.

In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.

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.

When you're a leader at any level of any scale, leaders are defined at times of crisis.

Being a manager is kneading people.

As a manager, you need to have your own vision and what you want to do with the team.

One of the main tasks of a manager is psychology.

The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness.

The true genius of a great manager is his or her ability to individualize. A great manager is one who understands how to trip each person's trigger.

Leadership is influence.

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.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

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

A CEO needs to build their own team.

I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Decisiveness is the one word that makes a good manager.

I think management is about just that - managing people via man-to-man skills.