Quotes About Management

Rupert Murdoch has been around since the dinosaurs. He knows how to get around any independent board - as he did with me, and as he's done with other editors as well.

I've always been completely autocratic. I've never learned to be diplomatic or democratic.

I would like to direct. What goes on behind stage is very interesting.

You can't direct without a good crew.

I don't want to be a director. I want to direct. There's a difference.

Banks need to have large shareholders on the board that have a direct interest in their performance.

People thought I was dead. But I wasn't. I was just directing 'The A-Team.'

Well, I'm directing a lot of television these days.

I believe that, by directing, it makes me a better executive as well.

I don't see a big difference between the job of directing a low-budget movie and the job of directing a big-budget movie.

When you're directing, you look around and you think, everything I see is my responsibility. From the catering being on time to whether the clouds are moving the way I need them to move to whether this actor is giving the performance I want to whether the costumes are what they should be.

In business, sometimes you have to change the CEO in order to change the direction of the company.

When I was a CEO, the books on management that I read weren't very much help after the first few months on the job. They were all designed to give you directions on how not to screw up your company.

Those who use our public services should be able to deal directly with those who manage and deliver them.

I work directly for the boss. I listen to everybody, but I have one man whose voice is louder than everybody else's.

To me the director's job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally.

I think there is more cohesion when you have one director on set.

I like working as a director most.

Some directors I worked with didn't even know how to read a blueprint, understand a plan.

I worked for a lot of directors.

If it were up to the executives, they probably wouldn't have directors at all.

I think directors should be confident in their leadership capabilities. I think directors should be confident in what they want to do.

Directors have so much else to do besides tell actors what to do. There are so many issues and problems.

I'm willing to have two directors on the DuPont board, me being one of them.