General Manager Quotes:

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

- Casey Stengel

topic: Motivational, Business, Hate, Funny Leadership, Undecided

Only the general manager can mold the resources, processes, and values that affect innovation , into a coherent capability to develop and launch superior new products and services repeatedly.

- Clayton Christensen

topic: Innovation, Mold, Process, General Manager, New Products

Toughest job in baseball is the general manager. Second toughest is the hitting coach.

- Ken Harrelson

topic: Baseball, Jobs, Hitting, General Manager

My mother's side of the family was in the production side of theatre. My grandfather, Jose Vega, was a general manager for Neil Simon shows on Broadway.

- Yancy Butler

topic: Mother, Vegas, Grandfather, General Manager

I won eight Stanley Cups as a player, and I've been told it's because I played on great teams. I won two as a general manager, and I've been told it's because I was lucky.

- Serge Savard

topic: Team, Player, Two, Stanley Cup, General Manager

For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.

- Larry Eisenberg

topic: Inspirational, Mind, Needs, Inner Peace And Happiness, Spiritual Peace

My father was a general manager with Hyatt, so we lived in the hotel so he would be close by if there were any problems. My mum was always adamant about us not abusing it. So I still had to clean my room. Housekeeping would never come and do it.

- Dianna Agron

topic: Father, Would Be, Rooms, Adamant, General Manager

Being general manager is like being the de facto owner. It's like wearing the crown of 'Restaurant Man' without being 'Restaurant Man.' You're trying to run the business, but you're running the ranch without riding the big horse.

- Joe Bastianich

topic: Running, Horse, Men, General Manager

It is the nature of being the general manager of a baseball team that you have to remain on familiar terms with people you are continually trying to screw.

- Michael Lewis

topic: Baseball, Team, People, Baseball Team, General Manager

The general manager is kind of like the step into darkness when you reach the top of the league. As GM, you're responsible for everything, including the maitre d's and the sommeliers - all these people who have their own agendas. But you probably make less than the maitre d' and have a lot more work and a lot more headaches.

- Joe Bastianich

topic: People, League, Darkness, Sommelier, General Manager

I didn't think it would be possible, but it appears Isiah Thomas is a worse general manager than coach.....

- Mark Boyle

topic: Thinking, Would Be, Coaches, General Manager

It's just a natural progression. You're a player, then you're a coach, then you're general manager for the team, and then the next logical step for me and you would be [to become] team owner.

- Zakk Wylde

source: Source: www.guitarmessenger.com

topic: Team, Player, Would Be, General Manager

My Dad sold automobiles as a general manager of a General Motors automobile dealership. He was a job creator. Everyone of those cars he sold he created a job for somebody on the assembly line.

- Joe Biden

source: Interview with Rachel Maddow, www.msnbc.com. February 18, 2016.

topic: Jobs, Dad, Car, Job Creators, Assembly Line

One thing I learned in the NBA is that the No. 1 job of a general manager is to keep his job. They are only 30 positions where you make millions and hang around with basketball players all day.

- Mark Cuban

topic: Basketball, Jobs, Player, General Manager

Some teams have a nucleus to build around. The Falcons barely have an embryo. So if you see suspicious looking wires running from the locker room to Dimitroff's office, and the general manager pushes down on the plunger as early as today, don't feel the need to cover your eyes. You've already seen the worst.

- Jeff Schultz

topic: Running, Team, Eye, General Manager

It's pretty simple, the way I look at it. I became a Hall of Famer here (in New York), with my numbers here and what I've done here, and hopefully three-hundred will be another big part of that. When (former Red Sox general manager Dan) Duquette said that I was done, if I'd have taken his advice and went home, I wouldn't have been a Hall of Famer. So it's a no-brainer. It's definitely pretty easy. Reggie (Jackson) spent five years here, and this will be five for me.

- Roger Clemens

topic: New York, Taken, Home, General Manager, No Brainer

I do interview senior candidates at the home office or many of our hotel or restaurant General Manager candidates. My two favorite questions are "Tell me about a failure in your career, what you learned from it, and how you've leveraged this lesson" and "All of us are misperceived at one time or another. What's the most common way you're misperceived in the workplace and why?" Both of these questions require a certain amount of self-awareness and a willingness to not give pat, normal answers that we offer experience in interviews.

- Chip Conley

topic: Senior, Home, Self, General Manager, Home Office

I never look at salaries. I have no aspirations of being a general manager or anything like that, I want to coach. For me there is no dollar signs on the towels, no dollar signs on their jerseys, I will make the decisions based on who is going to make us win. For me, that is my only priority.

- Bob Hartley

source: Source: flamesnation.ca

topic: Winning, Priorities, Decision, General Manager

It's unfortunate when an athlete's talent comes with so little forethought or leadership [...] The Falcons need to start over. If next year's team ends up being young and hungry but fairly average, the last thing you want as a general manager or coach is to have a blowhard cornerback whining about his contract leading the charge, no matter how good he is.

- Jeff Schultz

topic: Team, Athlete, Average, Forethought, Blowhards

A lot of people don't trust the pitch. There's this kind of reputation it has for being untrustworthy and fickle and capricious and everything else, and those are words that big league managers and general managers and organizations aren't too fond of.

- R.A. Dickey

source: "Master of the Knuckleball". Interview with Jeremy Stahl, www.slate.com. October 29,2012.

topic: Organization, People, League, Untrustworthy, General Manager

There's never a benefit to bragging too much about a deal because the only sure thing is that I'm probably going to be dealing with that same general manager or that same person over and over again.

- Leigh Steinberg

source: Source: bleacherreport.com

topic: Sure Thing, General Manager

The chance to be a general manager in major-league baseball and for a franchise as storied as this one, probably as storied as the Giants, is great.

- Ned Colletti

topic: Baseball, League, Giants, Major League Baseball, Major League

One of the strong principles that I believe in is that you're always learning, whether you're a commissioner, a current general manager, a president or an owner, or somebody that's trying to become a general manger or a coach in the NFL.

- Roger Goodell

source: "Roger Goodell talks crown-of-the-helmet rule, Tim Tebow, more". Interview with Steve Wyche, www.nfl.com. May 9, 2013.

topic: Strong, Believe, Nfl, Always Learning, Commissioners

I could imagine God saying to a lot of us, "Hey, I'm God, and you're not. You're not the general manager of the universe." And the greatest stress reliever is take God seriously, but don't take yourself seriously

- Rick Warren

topic: Stress, Hey, Imagine, Stress Reliever, General Manager

The ultimate freedom for creative groups is the freedom to experiment with new ideas. Some skeptics insist that innovation is expensive. In the long run, innovation is cheap. Mediocrity is expensive—and autonomy can be the antidote.”   TOM KELLEY General Manager, IDEO

- Daniel H. Pink

topic: Running, Business, Ideas, Ultimate Freedom, General Manager

A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit.

- Ted Lindsay

topic: Attitude, Hockey, Rumor, Derogatory, Playing Hockey

Cameron was able to get an inside look at professional football from the standpoint of athletes and agents and general managers that few people have ever seen.

- Leigh Steinberg

topic: Football, Athlete, People, Standpoint, Cameron

If you want peace of mind I suggest you resign as general manager of the universe.

- Dan Millman

topic: Mind, Peace Of Mind, Want, General Manager

The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.

- Michael Lewis

topic: Sports, Echoes, World, General Manager

Every time I sit with our general manager at a baseball game, and there's number-cruncher and statistician guy - I'm sitting around - they start talking about stuff, and I say, 'What's that? I've never heard of that one before.

- George Brett

topic: Baseball, Talking, Games, General Manager

As Aunt Naomi was listing all the things she was going to do to help this person, her friend stopped her in mid-sentence. "Naomi, girl," she said, "you need to resign as general manager of the universe. You need to learn that sometimes the best way to help a person is to let them help themselves. Otherwise, they never learn how. And they are always going to make their problems your problems."

- Patti LaBelle

topic: Girl, Aunt, Needs, Helpfulness, General Manager

I was told by the general manager that a white player had received a higher raise than me. Because white people required more money to live than black people. That is why I wasn't going to get a raise.

- Curt Flood

topic: Player, White, People, General Manager

I knew if I wanted to be a general manager, I was going to have to leave to work for another organization.

- Steve Yzerman

topic: Organization, Wanted, General Manager

If the Metro general manager, Paul Wiedefeld, says those extra hours for maintenance are necessary to help fix the system and make it safer, then that gets top priority.

- Robert James Thomson

topic: Priorities, Maintenance, Helping, Metro, General Manager

A sportswriter's life means never sitting with your wife or family at the games. Still working after everyone has gone to the party... Digging beneath a coach's lies, not to forget those of athletic directors and general managers and owners of pro teams. Keeping a confidence. Risking it.

- Dan Jenkins

topic: Lying, Team, Party, Risking Your Life, General Manager

Fantasy sports went a long way toward developing the sabermetrics formulas used not only by oddsmakers but general managers in hiring players. So the amateur fantasists ended up creating some of the algorithms that Oakland GM Billy Bean's statisticians used to win games with less salary money available for star players.

- Douglas Rushkoff

topic: Sports, Stars, Winning, General Manager