Landon Donovan Quotes

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.

Managing is a tough job. When you're young, you just think it's a natural progression - I'm good at this, so I'm going to be good at that - and it's not that way at all.

Rotary provides training at all levels so that those who have been selected for leadership positions have the opportunity to learn and apply leadership principles to their jobs.

I just talked to a young lady, a freshman at Santa Barbara. She's taking a course, and 'Moneyball''s one of the required readings. This young lady could dream of one day becoming a general manager.

Leadership is hard to train on.

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

A CEO needs to build their own team.

Early in my career, I sometimes found it difficult to make the tough people decisions - I had to learn that. In business, you want to listen. You want to learn. You want to make sure you're not proceeding without information. But if you wait too long, you can actually hurt an organization even more.

I want to deploy the leadership to meet the challenges that face us and to restore America's greatness.

The Leadership Training Institute of America is a cultural think tank providing training and opportunity in leadership development and cultural dynamics.

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

You can teach all sorts of things that improve the practice of management with people who are managers. What you cannot do is teach management to somebody who is not a manager, the way you cannot teach surgery to somebody whose not a surgeon.

We mislead ourselves when we pretend we can make someone into an effective manager by putting them through a few courses in business school.

A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.

I fell in love with the topic of leadership. For three decades, that has been a major focus of my hands-on work: listening to and working with leaders, their teams and their organizations.

I know how to make decisions, and I know how to lead.

I’ve worked as a leader for many years and I’ve always trained myself to be prepared for the worst.

When you become a head coach, you've played the game; you've coached the game. You have a great understanding of what happens at every level.

I don't think football management is easy.

I want to be a general manager, and I want to be a head coach. Definitely both.

I think it's very important, I think for any leader as you go through a career you have to learn the leadership lessons.

When I was a player, I was always interested in management.

If you are a manager with a new owner who has more ideas than knowledge, all you can do is get your head down and do your best, which is what Malky Mackay did at Cardiff.

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

Every manager can improve.