Managerial Skill Quotes

If I have one skill as a manager, I can make things extremely clear.

Executives do many things in addition to making decisions. But only executives make decisions. The first managerial skill is, therefore, the making of effective decisions.

The true genius of a great manager is his or her ability to individualize. A great manager is one who understands how to trip each person's trigger.

One of the worst features of the existing system is that the employees have a constant risk in their employer. If he is not competent to manage the business with success, they suffer with him. Capital also is dependent on the skill of the captain of industry for the certainty and magnitude of its profits. Under these circumstances there has been a great demand for men having the requisite ability for this function. As the organization has advanced, with more impersonal bonds of coherence and wider scope of operations, the value of this functionary has rapidly increased. The possession of the requisite ability is a natural monopoly. Consequently, all the conditions have concurred to give to those who possessed this monopoly excessive and constantly advancing rates of remuneration.

An executive is one who makes an immediate decision and is sometimes right

It's not always the player that's talking in the dressing room that becomes a good manager. It's a feeling that you need to develop, it's a feeling that needs to grow on you.

Louis van Gaal is one of the most incredible coaches who's done a fantastic job in clubs all over Europe.

Sir Alex, Mourinho, Wenger - none of them could have done a better job at Wigan than Steve Bruce.

I'm going to prove I can coach in the women's game and prove I can manage an England team to success.

It is a lot easier to manage at a big club rather than at a smaller one. Look at Frank Rijkaard. At Sparta Rotterdam, he was disastrous - and then went to Barca and won everything.

When you see Sir Alex arguing with referees and linesmen, he is showing passion that has taken him to the very highest level of the game.

I've managed 25 years, and I can probably count on one hand players that I didn't really care for, and that's probably thousands of players that I've managed. I think that's pretty good. I love the players and I always will.

I'm not surprised by Mazzarri's ability, I knew him as an opponent.

Most pitchers are too smart to manage.