Management quotes

“For the country's good we must be ruthless. We can't afford to be just. We'd have to rule by terror. You know what that is? Terror is nothing but despair.”
Wojciech Pszoniak - Robespierre

“In Vegas, everybody's gotta watch everybody else. Since the players are looking to beat the casino, the dealers are watching the players. The box men are watching the dealers. The floor men are watching the box men. The pit bosses are watching the floor men. The shift bosses are watching the pit bosses. The casino manager is watching the shift...” (continue)(continue reading)
Robert De Niro - Sam "Ace" Rothstein

“- Brian Moreland: Sir, how could they do this?
- General Harlan Bache: With the stroke of a pen, sir. Their field of honor was a desktop.”

Timothy Hutton - Brian Moreland
George C. Scott - General Harlan Bache

You and I are gonna be the greatest musical manager team since Jessica Simpson and her father. Only you and I get to "mreow" and they can't, 'cause it's illegal. I looked it up.
Anna Faris - Samantha James

“- Garry Lejeune: Lloyd, let me just say one thing, since we've stopped. I've worked with a lotta directors, Lloyd. Some of them were geniuses, some of them were bastards. But I've never met one who was so totally and absolutely... I don't know.
- Lloyd Fellowes: Thank you Gary, I'm very touched. Now will you get off the fucking stage?”
John Ritter - Garry Lejeune
Sir Michael Caine - Lloyd Fellowes

“- Fred Melrose: Not the suits, man! You never consort with the suits unless they consort with you first.
- Brantley Foster: Wait a minute, that's ridiculous! He's a person, I'm a person. I can't say hello to him?
- Fred Melrose: He's not a person, he's a suit! You're mailroom. No consorting.”

John Pankow - Fred Melrose
Michael J. Fox - Brantley Foster

“It's all right. I'm sure that we can handle this situation maturely, just like the responsible adults that we are. Isn't that right, Mr... Poopy Pants?”
Leslie William Nielsen - Frank Drebin

“- Oishi Kazihiro: None of you would last two days in management training.
- Hunt Stevenson: None of us would be dumb enough to stay two days.”
Gedde Watanabe - Oishi Kazihiro
Michael Keaton - Hunt Stevenson

“You've managed to Forrest Gump your way through this.”
Julia Roberts - Samantha Barzel

“- Ross: The man with one red shoe... what's going to happen to him?
- Brown: He'll be just fine.
- Ross: And the girl?
- Brown: The deal was her testimony for her freedom. I think it was a fair exchange.
- Ross: Well, I don't think so.
- Brown: Well, since you're no longer director of CIA, and I am, it doesn't matter what you think.”

Charles Durning - Ross
Edward Herrmann - Brown

“You like music, listen to this. I was into these dudes before anyone. Wanted me to be their manager. I called bullshit on that. Managing a pop group is no job for a man.”
Sy Richardson - Lite

“I see you have the machine that goes ping. This is my favorite. You see we lease it back from the company we sold it to and that way it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account.”
Michael Palin - Hospital Administrator

“- Ralph Houk: You're reading the fan mail? You're letting the fans run the team?
- Dan Topping: The fans pay your salary, Ralph.
- Ralph Houk: Well, you can change the lineup if you want, but not while I'm manager. And I'll tell you something else, the right guy is going to break that stupid record!”
Bruce McGill - Ralph Houk
Bob Gunton - Dan Topping

“- Brantley Foster: Some of this stuff doesn't make any sense. They send requisitions through two departments to get procurements for a third. What kind of thinking is that?
- Fred Melrose: That's suit thinking. Something happens to a man when he puts on a necktie. Cuts off all the oxygen to his brain.”

Michael J. Fox - Brantley Foster
John Pankow - Fred Melrose

“What the fuck? Another son of a bitchin' blackout! If it was my power company, this would never happen...”

E.G. Marshall - Upson Pratt

“- Danny: Are you around later?
- Deirdre: Ask my manager.
- Danny: Fuck your manager.
- Deirdre: Aye, maybe I will.”
Stephen Rea - Danny
Honor Heffernan - Deirdre

“One should be rewarded on one's merits, not on one's ability to ingratiate oneself with the management. Particularly when the management have difficulty in locating the relative whereabouts of the arse and the elbow.”
Timothy Spall - Richard Temple

“- Oscar Jaffe: I'm offering you a last chance to become immortal.
- Lily Garland, aka Mildred Plotka: Then I've decided to stay mortal with responsible management.”
John Barrymore - Oscar Jaffe
Carole Lombard - Lily Garland aka Mildred Plotka

“SpongeBob. You're a great frycook, but I gave the job to Squidward because being manager is a big responsibility. Well, let's face it. He's more... mature than you.”
Clancy Brown - Mr. Krabs

“I'll be looking for patriotic, honorable, bright young men from the right backgrounds to manage the various departments. In other words, no Jews or Negroes, and very few Catholics, and that's only because I'm a Catholic.”
Robert De Niro - Bill Sullivan

“- Dominic: Shouldn't we synchronise our watches?
- Charlie Croker: Nuts to your watches! You just be there at a quarter to.”
David Salamone - Dominic
Sir Michael Caine - Charlie Croker

“- Comrade Iranoff: The service in this hotel is terrible! See! Nobody comes...nobody pays any attention. That's freedom.
- Comrade Buljanoff: That's bad management.”
Sig Ruman - Comrade Iranoff
Felix Bressart - Comrade Buljanoff

“- Willy Wonka: You can't run a chocolate factory with a family hanging over you like an old, dead goose. No offense.
- Grandpa George: None taken. Jerk.”
Johnny Depp - Willy Wonka
David Kelly - Grandpa Joe

“- Jason Melon: Dad, what's goin' on here?
- Thornton Melon: I'm doin' my homework.
- Jason Melon: No, no, no, no, they're doing your homework.
- Thornton Melon: Jason, a good executive knows how to delegate authority.”

Keith Gordon - Jason Melon
Rodney Dangerfield - Thornton Melon

“It's not the company. It's the credibility. My credibility. I can't just sit on the bench and let other people play the game. Not my game. Not with their rules.”

Jonathan Pryce - Henry Kravis