Managerial Competence Quotes

History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.

No, I don't believe it's prejudice. I truly believe they [Blacks] may not have some of the necessities to be, let's say, a field manager or perhaps a general manager.

There is one qualification the manager cannot acquire but must bring to the task. It is not genius; it is character.

If you don't hire at least one or two people that are smarter than you are, then you're a terrible manager and I don't need you.

As far as I'm concerned, if you're only going to call managers who have won a trophy any good, then basically, you have four or five.

To be a manager requires more than a title, a big office, and other outward symbols of rank. It requires competence and performance of a high order.

Absolute size by itself is no indicator of success and achievement, let alone of managerial competence. Being the right size is.

I'm very confident in my own ability as a manager.

These managers all know their onions and cut their cloth accordingly.

I want to do right, apart from my gender - I want to do right as a campaign manager.

If I got sacked because my results weren't good enough at Everton, I accept it, but getting sacked when they finish eighth, it is ridiculous. In fact, it is ludicrous.

Fund investors are confident that they can easily select superior fund managers. They are wrong.

Any coach who's managed a big club in Argentina can manage anywhere.

There is no reason to believe that the people who staff the managerial and professional positions in our service institutions are any less qualified, any less competent or honest, or any less hard-working than the men who manage businesses. Conversely, there is no reason to believe that business managers, put in control of service institutions, would do better than the 'bureaucrats'. Indeed, we know that they immediately become bureaucrats themselves.