Managerial Skills Quotes

Players only understand substitutions when they become managers.

All resources are not obvious; great managers find and develop available talent.

One of the main tasks of a manager is psychology.

If I Had To Sum Up In One Word The Qualities That Make Up A Good Manager, I'd Say Decisiveness.

Decisiveness is the one word that makes a good manager.

Motivation aside, if people get better at these life skills, everyone benefits: The brain doesn't distinguish between being a more empathic manager and a more empathic father.

Villas-Boas wasn't a bad man, not at all.

What else does a manager do but push buttons? He doesn't hit, he doesn't run, he doesn't throw, and he doesn't catch the ball. A manager has twenty-five players, or twenty-five buttons, and he selects which one he'll use, or push, that day. The manager who presses the right buttons most often is the one who wins the most games.

Managers are the basic and scarcest resource of any business enterprise.

Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet

Choose the manager of your government as you would the manager of your private business.

I have been impressed by Carlo Ancelotti, Kevin Keegan, Arsene Wenger, Guus Hiddink, Christoph Daum and Sam Allardyce.

Congratulations offer more potential than cash. The amount of available cash is limited, but managers have an unlimited supply of congratulations. It's important to pay people fairly, but managers also should heap on congratulations and feed people's souls.

A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men; he is a person who can get his men to do the work better than he can.

You'll never get anyone saying something detrimental about Jose - he's an outstanding manager.

I'll tell you what makes a great manager: A great manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are. He forces you to have a good opinion of yourself. He lets you know he believes in you.

Louis van Gaal is one of the most successful managers in the world.

When you're a manager, we sometimes speak too much about tactics, but the most difficult thing for a manager is to get the best from his best players.

If you don't hire at least one or two people that are smarter than you are, then you're a terrible manager and I don't need you.

Jurgen Klopp is certainly a great coach. I think he has demonstrated at Dortmund that he can suit any team in the world.

I have had hundreds of people work for me over the years, and I don't think I ever fired anybody.

The person that takes over needs to have the skills to manage that ... I believe Andrea [Leadsom] has the edge.

I had 11 years of managerial experience and four years of coaching before I managed a big-league team. To me, it was important, because I learned a lot through trial and error. And it's tough to have to go through trial and error when you're a big-league manager.

It wasn't purely Alex Ferguson's experience that made him a good manager, because he did it when he was inexperienced. But if you've got the qualities needed, and then you add experience to it, someone who's been through it, well, that has to be advantageous. There's no doubt about that.

I was always fascinated by the decision-making process and the managerial process and just business in general.