Casey Stengel Quotes

The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.

Even as an 18-year-old, I had to grow comfortable with my leadership style, which is that I was really impatient with under-motivated people - extremely impatient, to the point where I was counterproductive as a manager of underproductive people. And that hasn't really changed. If people need to be motivated, I'm no good.

A CEO needs to build their own team.

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.

You have to let the team develop. You can't say, 'Oh, I got empty seats, I'm going to change the team.' It just doesn't work that way.

Whether you're a founder, a leader, or an individual contributor, building a strong team is critical to your success.

As a manager, you manage a team and there are good periods where there are good feelings in the group.

As a manager, you need to have your own vision and what you want to do with the team.

One of the main tasks of a manager is psychology.

Most management systems have to do with establishing trust and getting people to cooperate. They're not really about expertise or science.

As a CEO, you get sucked into dealing with all the tasks of being a CEO. There's a big meeting, a big discussion, and you get into all the big issues, which is your job. But what CEOs often lose sight of is that it's all about the people who work for you. For every 1,000 decisions, 999 were being made when I was not in the room.

The way you manage your company and the way you manage your people has to be totally different.

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

How do you make your company a good place to work in general? That's a really, really, really large and complex set of skills. A lot of it is on-the-job training, combined with excellent mentorship.

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

I'd never managed anyone before, so I don't have a lot of experience. But I'm lucky - I have a lot of team members who have a really honest relationship with me.

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.

More than half of people who leave their jobs do so because of their relationship with their boss. Smart companies make certain their managers know how to balance being professional with being human. These are the bosses who celebrate an employee's success, empathize with those going through hard times, and challenge people, even when it hurts.

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.

Regarding managing people, I am lucky to be surrounded by good, smart friends, some of whom own their own companies or have worked in ones and can lend experience.

It's difficult to gel players.

Management is not about shouting and bawling, because some guys will not like that. They take it personally.

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