Dennis Bergkamp Quotes

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

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

Over the past several years, I've been more in a managerial role.

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

It is difficult for every manager, I think, in the first year.

One of the main tasks of a manager is psychology.

I had never been in charge of anything. I'd always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I'd never been in charge of an organization.

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.

Leadership and management are not synonymous.

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

As leader of the effort of the Iraqi Survey Group, I spent most of my days not out in the field leading inspections. It's typically what you do at that level. I was trying to motivate, direct, find strategies.

A CEO needs to build their own team.

I never thought I was a very good manager.

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

My definition of an executive's job is brief and to the point. It is simply this: Getting things done through other people.

The most challenging part of being a boss is that nobody will tell you if your work is suffering.

At the moment we need training for leadership.

Management is different from leadership..

I think it is rewarding to manage, but it is not what I am passionate about. Managing more than 200 people, maybe 150 people, isn't fun to me and is not my skill set.

I knew nothing about managing when I started.

I'm not a great boss because I don't like to tell other people what to do.

When you are the manager, you want to win.

When you're a leader and a manager, you have to make decisions which are right for your group to achieve the primary objective. Sometimes those decisions will be criticised.

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

Promoting is a no-no - that's hard work. Training is a full-time job, but I don't have time to do that full-time. But managing is something I'll be good at.