Quotes About Management

Time is a finite resource.

If a manager can't control his costs, fire them.

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.

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

My normal routine is pretty much putting out fires all day.

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.

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.

'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.'

Replacing General McChrystal with David Petraeus was a good first step, but more will be needed.

Fiscal discipline can turn the economy around.

Fiscal crises often turn into financial crises, dealing a blow to the real economy.

Fiscal policy is not just, or even not even principally, the purview of the president.

There needs to be fiscal common sense.

What's so great about DreamWorks is that it's run by filmmakers who believe that if it's not broke, don't fix it.

There is no human-resources training for how to respond when you work for an unpredictable president. It's perhaps fitting that when you visit the website of the White House Office of Administration it says, 'Check back soon for more information.'

White House staff are meant to coordinate and set policy, not carry it out.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

The boss is the captain on the cricket field. I am in charge of the coaching staff. That's put into place. My job is to oversee things and see things go all right. Who cares who's the boss? At the end of the day, you win and to hell with it, yaar.

I was on the board of the Mayo Clinic. I was diagnosed there, and I could pick up the phone and get a hold of whoever I wanted to. What I learned is that you really have to get proactive and manage your case.

I've learned from doing my own show with Fox that people are not your partners if they're signing the checks. Whoever signs your paycheck is the boss - no matter what they tell you.

The secretariat will play a pivotal role in decision-making above a certain level, where basic policies are involved, but below that, we will have to leave the implementation to whoever is in charge.

One of the pleas you get when you're talking to the tourist industry or the energy industry or the whoever is, 'Please, can we just have the same minister for longer than five minutes?'

Active management leads to lots of poor investor behavior. It sends people chasing after whoever has the hot hand at the moment.