Jamie Carragher Quotes

A CEO needs to build their own team.

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.

The Secret Service today is awash in managers, not leaders.

As a manager, I have to keep calm.

Coaching was something I've never had much interest in. I've always been a big-picture guy, like a manager has to be.

I think every manager is different in their own way.

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

Over the years I've learned that, to be a good manager, you need to have passion, and you need to have a strong character. Without those things, the job is very, very difficult.

There are people who are better managers than I am. I aspire to be a really good manager, but it's not my natural personality to do the same thing for 14 hours a day. I have a lot of different interests. I really like product and strategy and business strategy, and I think I'm not bad at it.

Leadership and management are not synonymous.

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

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

If I look myself as a manager, I have lot more to learn.

Too many talk about a company's leadership, referring to the senior most executives in the organization. They are just that: senior executives. Leadership doesn't automatically happen when you reach a certain pay grade. Hopefully you find it there, but there are no guarantees.

The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.

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

When I finally got a management position, I found out how hard it is to lead and manage people.

I think directors should be confident in their leadership capabilities. I think directors should be confident in what they want to do.

I have never seen myself as a promoter. I always evaluate myself as a manager.

A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here's where we are going to go, here's why we need to go there, and here's how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor.

And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.

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.

I'm a natural management guy. I had forgotten that. And I forgot how much I hate it.

Showing leadership doesn't mean every employee will run the organization; that would lead to chaos. Businesses do need someone to set the vision and then lead the team to it.

Few people would doubt that Mark Zuckerberg would build a great product. But I, at least, would never have expected him to become so great at hiring, motivating, managing, and ultimately getting whatever it is his company needs from people.