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There are managers who always say what people want to hear. I think that's not good. Diego Costa

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My managers understood that when I sulk, they talk to me. It's a way for me to be heard. Dimitri Payet

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Managers have people second-guessing them all the time. Don Mattingly

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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

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Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change. Edsger Dijkstra

Change Like Without Mathematicians Improvement Managers Want

We need business leaders who have a respect for technical issues even if they don't have technical backgrounds. In a lot of U.S. industries, including cars and even computers, many managers don't think of technology as a core competency, and this attitude leads them to farm out technical issues. Edwin Catmull

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The first time I found out that 'Boo'd Up' went platinum, I was handed the plaque. They really surprised me. I thought we were gold, and then Mustard and my managers brought the plaque to my rehearsals and told me. I was like, 'You are lying!' Like, I couldn't believe it. I'm just honored, honestly. It's a great feeling. Ella Mai

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A romantic or classical view of the French approach would have been to say, 'It's a French company; let no one attack it. Let's block any merger. But the reality is Alcatel-Lucent is not a French company; it's a global company. Its main markets are China and the U.S. Its ownership is foreign; most of its managers aren't French. Emmanuel Macron

Reality Ownership Approach Say Markets Would Classical Attack Main No-One Merger Global Most French Foreign Block Been Managers Any Romantic China View Company

After costs, only the top 3% of managers produce a return that indicates they have sufficient skill to just cover their costs, which means that going forward, and despite extraordinary past returns, even the top performers are expected to be only as good as a low-cost passive index fund. The other 97% can be expected to do worse. Eugene Fama

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The problem that people don't understand is that active managers, almost by definition, have to be poorly diversified. Otherwise, they're not really active. They have to make bets. What that means is there's a huge dispersion of outcomes that are totally consistent with just chance. There's no skill involved it. It's just good luck or bad luck. Eugene Fama

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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails. Felix Dennis

Time People Few Once Hundreds Emails Paper Computers Until Make Documents Sheet Errors Duplicated Get Managers Endlessly Swamped Flawless Each Now Wasteful Copies

There were probably a few games I played where I should not have played, because of some nagging injuries or something. I used to always talk the managers into playing me, because I wanted to play so badly. Gary Carter

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The best, most successful managers in the modern era are those who can keep a player happy even if he is not in the team. Given the size of the squads and the use of rotation nowadays, that's tougher than it's ever been. Gary Lineker

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MF Global used to be known as Man Financial, and it had a reasonably good reputation. It did a humdrum business placing commodities trades for fund managers as well as farmers, grain dealers and others whose livelihoods depend on the vagaries of commodity prices. Gary Weiss

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At the start of the season, there are 16 teams in the top division looking behind them, making sure they avoid relegation. The fear starts in the boardroom, comes down to managers and through to players. The fans sense it. George Best

Fear Fans Looking Sense Down Starts Top Through Division Sure Making Managers Behind Them Avoid Teams Season Start Players

I was often misquoted. I was supportive of my managers, even though they all may not think so. George Steinbrenner

Think Though Misquoted Supportive Managers May Often Even

Many of the most successful coaches and managers have come from players who never reached the highest level. The one exception seems to be basketball, where many of the greatest stars at least tried to coach a team. George Vecsey

Stars Tried Seems Exception Never Highest Highest Level Come Most Reached Greatest Least Managers Where Successful Coach Coaches Team Who Many Level Players Basketball

I have to be honest: in my career, I've really had to fight to come in the middle again. A lot of managers told me, 'You are way more comfortable as a winger than as a midfielder,' but I always kept my trust and confidence in what I knew about my qualities. Georginio Wijnaldum

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