Mickey Mantle Quotes

I've got an opinion on everything, so I should go into management.

I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.

Many fine coaches never become great managers.

I like to think I'll be quite instinctive as a leader.

I am not saying I am the best manager in the world. But I'm quite good.

Decisiveness is the one word that makes a good manager.

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.

As a captain I think tactically I've been quite good.

Mourinho is a fantastic manager, intelligent, clever. He is OK.

I have always said that management is not something I fancied, but it's suddenly, naturally started to enter my head.

To be a director, you need to be reliable, on time, confident, calm, all of those things you see demonstrated in the military.

I had the best teacher there can be in man management or managing a football club.

Leadership is all about emotional intelligence. Management is taught, while leadership is experienced.

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

Great CEOs are not just born with shiny hair and a tie.

My dad is a great manager. He's not just competent - he's very clever.

A CEO needs to build their own team.

As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.

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

I think leadership is most effective when it's your own personality. But I feel like it's a natural progression as a quarterback, as well.

You have to be a well-rounded leader. You can't fly by the seat of your pants anymore. You have to be incredibly tough-minded about standards of performance, but you also have to be incredibly tenderhearted with the people you're working with.

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

Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.

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.