Quotes About Leadership

If you fire people, you fire customers.

When I got to the Mavericks people were all giving me advice - change this, change that - and one thing that I didn't do was fire anybody.

But as coaches, we need to get a little more fire and passion and be more demanding that our guys get the job done. I think players will respond to that, and we'll see.

Learn the Constitution. Then when someone wants to be elected, hold their feet to the fire and make them follow it because that's what we need to get back to. It works so well when we follow it.

Directors get to fire on many more cylinders than an actor.

You get fired. You get cut. That's just part of it, man. You don't worry about it, but what you do is you make sure that you left it better for the next guy.

I can be very emotional, so when it's the build-up to a game I enjoy that side of trying to help push the team and get them fired up.

We should because when coaches get fired, the players have a lot to do with it.

When you get in coaching, you realize there are only two kinds of coaches - those that are fired and those who are going to get fired.

If the day ever comes when I think something is okay simply because district schools do it, I hope my board fires me.

Al Davis fires everybody.

I don't even like firing people. I don't think I've ever said, 'You're fired' to anybody.

You can fire your revenues by firing your people.

Part of being a top-20 firm is mind-share.

Design-wise, I look at everything. If I don't personally design it, I'll review it. I'm kind of creative director of the firm.

I am the first to say I'm firm and fair.

I firmly believe the way forward for our nation is to have a robust democracy.

My dad was one who - he was nonpartisan, first of all. He learned to work with whatever administration was in office.

I was the first one on the team, and I got to watch everybody come in.

As a big, you don't want to be the first one to shoot.

'You're fired' was not a part of the deal. And when I went into the first board room, the very first one, I'm looking at these people, and I had to fire somebody, but we never thought in terms of the expression 'You're fired.'

As animation directors, you're the first one on the film; you're the last one off, and you get to learn from and touch every department throughout the whole journey. I don't know any other job in the world that's like that. I don't think live-action is like that. It's a very different sort of experience.

Age is just a number. For 18 months at Boro I was the first one in at training and one of the last out. I look at people like Manuel Pellegrini and Marcelo Bielsa and think they all have something to offer.

Rick Rude is the reason I even got abs in the first place. I was just a fan of the way he did things. He was the kind of guy who would walk into a room and automatically take control.