Gareth Southgate Quotes

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

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

Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.

If I'm a leader, I have a mission.

A manager has to have all different sides covered.

There is no real magic to being a good leader. But at the end of every week, you have to spend your time around the things that are really important: setting priorities, measuring outcomes, and rewarding them.

I describe management as arts, crafts and science. It is a practice that draws on arts, craft and science and there is a lot of craft - meaning experience - there is a certain amount of craft meaning insight, creativity and vision, and there is the use of science, technique or analysis.

Managers are important: they are leading the company and guiding and have to provide vision and manage the daily business.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

I think in any organization you want your manager to have a strong opinion. You don't want them to just say, 'Yes, sir' to things they don't believe in.

I think leadership is more than just being able to cross the t's and dot the i's. It's about character and integrity and work ethic.

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

The most important role of a leader is to set a clear direction, be transparent about how to get there and to stay the course.

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

A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.

I’m an executive now. I have to be a bigger leader, more responsible leader, more careful about how I say things….

A good leader has to at some point trust those around him; otherwise, nothing constructive is going to get done.

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.

Just because you have opposition doesn't make you a great leader.

The key to being a good manager or a good entrepreneur is to pick the right people. Pick the right people, and they'll make you look good.

You have to build a team, but someone's got to lead, and someone's got to be unpopular at times.

When you are the manager, you want to win.

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

When I go into management, I want to do so with 100 per cent commitment.

Of course every manager has a different mentality, different philosophy.