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

—Casey Stengel

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Charles Dillon "Casey" Stengel (; July 30, 1890 – September 29, 1975) was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) right fielder and manager, best known as the manager of the championship New York Yankees of the 1950s and later, the expansion New York Mets. Nicknamed "the Ol' Perfessor", he was...

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There comes a time in every man's life, and I've had plenty of them.

—Casey Stengel

There comes a time in every man's life and I've had many of them.

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There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.

—Casey Stengel

Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain.

—Casey Stengel

All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.

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What luck for rulers that men do not think.

—Adolf Hitler

To say that there is a case for heroes is not to say that there is a case for hero worship. The surrender of decision, the unquestioning submission to leadership, the prostration of the average man before the Great Man—these are the diseases of heroism, and they are fatal to human dignity.… History amply shows that it is possible to have heroes without turning them into gods. And history shows, too, that when a society, in flight from hero worship, decides to do without great men at all, it gets into troubles of its own.

—Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

—Mother Teresa

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The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

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A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

—Dwight D. Eisenhower

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