Managing Quotes

“I want to see a world in which entrepreneurs give time to their visions to reality so that they have more money, more family time, and more support, a world in which they can stop working so hard and start living!”
― Curtis L. Jenkins, Vision to Reality: Stop Working, Start Living

“Hard work without a solid plan isn’t likely to get you where you want to be. You need to be teachable; you need to be dedicated, and you need to work smart.”
― Curtis L. Jenkins, Vision to Reality: Stop Working, Start Living

“A leader can bring the solution to people, but sometimes a leader has to bring the people to the solution.”
― Curtis L. Jenkins, Vision to Reality: Stop Working, Start Living

“Entrepreneurs aren’t looking to go backward. They are looking to go forward, toward their prize of realizing their dreams.”
― Curtis L. Jenkins, Vision to Reality: Stop Working, Start Living

“In many ways, life is about managing your delusions; keeping the ones that nourish and eliminating the ones that poison.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“I’m a firm believer that most people who do great things are doing them for the first time. Returning to my theory of hiring, I’d rather have someone all fired up to do something for the first time than someone who’s done it before and isn’t that excited to do it again. You rarely go wrong giving someone who is high potential the shot.”
― Marc Andreessen, The pmarca Blog Archives

“I wondered how far I should turn out faithful to that ideal conception of one's own personality every man sets up for himself secretly.”
― Joseph Conrad, The Secret Sharer

“A good manager instills staff with self-confidence, teaches them to believe in themselves and helps them to realise their brilliance. Do not ever treat your staff with disrespect. It is competent until proven incompetent; not incompetent til proven competent.”
― Miya Yamanouchi, Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women

“13 core principles of managing:
1. Make a personal connection first; everything else follows.
2. There is only one team rule. (Respect 90)
3. Freedom is empowering.
4. Never hold a team meeting in your home clubhouse.
5. Do not have a fine system.
6. Wear whatever you think makes you look hot.
7. Empower your coaches.
8. But don’t allow your coaches—or veterans—to be harsh on young players.
9. Question data with feel.
10. Pregame work is excessive.
11. Keep signs simple and to a minimum.
12. A lineup card is all a manager needs in the dugout.
13. Forget “The Book.” Making the first or third out at third base is okay.”
― Joe Maddon

“Rather than micro-managing to resolve every problem, create the right atmosphere, process, and system that facilitate effective problem solving.”
― Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For continued success in leadership

“The scripture talks about man managing, ruling the earth, as the sole duty of man.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“A farmer's work in many ways is like setting a stage. In theater, stage managers lay out furniture and props, set up lights, and clean to get a set ready for actors to take over and create a show. Farmers plow, fertilize, set up irrigation systems and fences, and otherwise prep the stage of their farms for the real actors -- the sun and the life within the seeds and animals -- to create the show.”
― Ben Hartman, The Lean Farm: How to Minimize Waste, Increase Efficiency, and Maximize Value and Profits with Less Work

“Stop trying to control people. Let em be free.

The tighter the strangle, the bigger the struggle.

Lighten your grip. Let them breathe.

People who are suffocating at the hands of would-be do-gooders don’t get better, they get bitter...and run.”
― Richie Norton

“Having an understanding of the 'why' will help with having an understanding of the 'how'.”
― Bobby Darnell, Time For Dervin - Living Large In Geiggityville

“It is in learning to live in our circumstances that we learn how to live above them.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Make the best experiences out of the minimum resources that are at your disposal.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“In an industry where advisors tend to overlook a client's full financial needs, family offices take a holistic approach, managing and implementing multiple aspects of a client's financial needs more strategically and efficiently.”
― Tammy Trenta, Wisdom to Be Wealthy: Accelerate to the Top 1% and Create Generational Wealth Using the Family Office Blueprint