Quotes About Management

The problem is, we elected a manager and we need a leader. Let's face it: Bush is just dim.

Don't blame the boss. He has enough problems.

My father was a general manager with Hyatt, so we lived in the hotel so he would be close by if there were any problems. My mum was always adamant about us not abusing it. So I still had to clean my room. Housekeeping would never come and do it.

As long as they are medicated the right way with the asthma medicine they won't have any problems.

Most business problems, you will have an intuitive idea on what to do.

When we ask bureaucrats to identify who is responsible for fixing anything, they reassure us that there are 'procedures in place.'

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.

I was always fascinated by the decision-making process and the managerial process and just business in general.

If a decision-making process is flawed and dysfunctional, decisions will go awry.

It is processes that are important.

I'm not the kind of director who imposes his processes on everybody else.

Processes break in two ways. They break because they don't have the right checks and balances and because they don't have the right execution.

Harman had great brands, but the processes were falling apart.

If you think about corporate legal work that's done today, some part of it is art and then some of it is repeatable processes.

We had to figure out how to produce books in a cost-effective way.

It's a very difficult business, and I'm very interested in the future of it after I'm gone, and I thought that if I can't produce a strong management team here myself, and I can find better management elsewhere, then I should sell it.

Earlier in my career, I needed to be the writer, casting director, set designer, leading man, and producer. I've been eliminating a lot of those jobs. I'm an executive producer right now. I still get to pick the best screenplays.

The best thing about being a film producer is I get to spend 99 per cent of my time behind the scenes.

To be a good producer, one needs to be able to eat lunch, and make ill-informed decisions.

When I'm on a picture, I have two bosses - the director and the producer. My co-star is not my boss.

It's lovely being a producer. It's really a lot of fun and I can learn a lot.

I want to be an executive producer.

There's always been some moron-who usually went by the name of 'producer' - who would have to justify his existence, and interfere.

I wanted to just be a filmmaker, and I thought I wanted to do all the aspects, and it seemed like as a producer was the best way to do it, because I could have... You never have control on a movie, but you have as much control as you can.