Managers Quotes

You could be playing catch with somebody on the side ? one of the managers ? and you drop the ball, we're going to be running on the sideline after practice. - Robert Meachem

You can't talk enough. You can't communicate enough. It makes people feel that Peter may be gone and Bob may be hurt, but there are managers who are still steering the ship. They want to know that the organization is not in free-fall. - Paul Slavin

You can't look at costs in a vacuum, so they're [IT managers] not looking at TCO but instead are looking for the net gain. - Robert Rosen

You can only control for what you can control. And without a really good understanding of the risk a hedge fund is taking, you're in the dark. And don't forget that what you're really buying when you invest in a hedge fund is your claim on a manager's skill and insight. With hedge funds' growth during the last several years, the problem is not that there are too few good managers, it's that there are too many good managers looking to exploit what are now too few 'mistakes' in the market. - Cal Brown

Years later, I was in Baltimore one day and I talked to (then-manager) Johnny Oates. He said, 'You changed the game. You created the ninth-inning pitcher.' I said, 'It was the managers who did it. They started holding back their best relief pitchers to get saves.' - Jerome Holtzman

With today's introduction of the Gateway E-1500 and E-2600, professional IT managers don't have to compromise when it comes to outfitting employees with powerful new PCs. The combination of Intel processors with ATI's chipset enables us to offer systems with feature sets unheard of at these price points, while still meeting professional customers' demands for manageability and stability. - William Diehl

With the ways the laws are written, especially related to questions you can't ask during job interviews, it was impossible to train all our managers about what not to do. - Tom Strasse

With the announcement today, Sun is making an early move to capture the growing integration market with a complete and affordable Java ES stack to address both security and integration, two of the leading concerns for IT managers today... Adding the premier suite for integration and composite application development to the Java ES and then combining with Solaris 10 further establishes Sun as a mainstream, end-to-end provider of software for the development and deployment of enterprise applications. And we're just warming up. - John Loiacono

With rates falling, managers will be going to the corporate bond market. - John Woolway

With our latest release, all project stakeholders -- project managers, executives, developers, product managers, customers, and testers -- will be able to collaborate and coordinate plans and progress much more effectively in an Agile environment. Over the past four years, we've worked with hundreds of companies around the world to help drive the adoption of Agile development throughout their organizations. With our extended support for the Agile life cycle, better visibility into the entire software development process is possible. - Robert Holler