Quotes About Management

I've been preparing to run a big company all my life.

Apple is a military-like command-and-control organization where people lower down in the organization manage up. They are constantly preparing their boss who may be preparing their boss and their boss for a presentation to the CEO or to the executive team.

The role of president, as George W. Bush commented in 2000, requires vision, management, and an eye for talent - not so different from that of CEO. But during the first years of Carter's presidency, his Cabinet was anything but businesslike, beset by infighting and meetings that ambled.

Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening.

President Mandela was not a hands-on president at any time.

I think President Obama, like myself, is a multitasker.

President Trump is doing what he can to act decisively. And if there's one thing most people have in mind in distinguishing the business world from the political world is that the CEO of a business can act decisively.

Controlling President Trump seems incredibly difficult.

I think that less presidential interference the better.

Presidents get to decide how their intelligence is served up to them, and it's the job of intelligence to adjust.

Occasionally, you see presidents come in and provide a clear change in direction of leadership.

Presidents and cabinet officials could send a strong message of accountability if they held senior appointees responsible for their performance.

I've worked closely with presidents, especially with President Obama, and I realized that what good leaders do at the national level is no different than what we do at the local level.

Too many managers manage by what the postgame press conference is going to be.

If the club decides to sack me, honestly, I don't feel this pressure.

When you're an adult designer, you're either running a business, or you're helping someone else's business run. Either way, that's a lot of pressure.

For a team of Evergrande's level, fans hope to have the top coaches and the coach will definitely face various pressures.

We mislead ourselves when we pretend we can make someone into an effective manager by putting them through a few courses in business school.

When you get elected by 86% and you'd been in government as long as I had been, there was a sense I had a pretty good handle on things.

I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

On the playing side, a lot of guys I played under were pretty good managers.

Big things, a real crisis, I think I'm pretty good, but this little thing will just wallop me. I think I'm managing depression better now: when the mood comes, I just try and sit it out.

Utilities fall in love with their assets, and that's a danger we need to avoid.

Every company today is a data company whether they realize it or not.