Dennis Ritchie Quotes

I've never seen myself as a manager. As a manager, you have to put all your time into the job, and that would be difficult for me.

I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager.

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

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

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

I'm not going to manage again. I'm going to work for a team someday. But it won't be managing.

I never thought I was a very good manager.

At the Centers for Disease Control, I rose up fairly quickly into management positions. The first team I led there included many people who had been my supervisors in previous roles or were more senior than I was. So it was kind of a daunting challenge.

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

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.

At the moment we need training for leadership.

I knew nothing about managing when I started.

Naturally, managers and coaches are trying to find different ways to work.

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

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

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

It's difficult to be a coach.

One day I'll know what it's like to be a manager.

Leadership and management are not synonymous.

I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.

I try to help people with management stuff a lot.

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

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've managed stations.