Quotes About Management

TV is all about schedule and budget, and you're always fighting that.

We know Donald Trump wants to hit his goals ahead of time, and under budget.

I've been a conservative when it comes to budgeting issues and streamlining government.

Marketing executives like big budgets, as big budgets make it easier to grow the top line.

What's really important to me is that we have fiscally responsible balanced budgets.

Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.

My buildings are all on budget.

Well, as we built the business in the 1990's, as I said, I enjoyed that.

We'll always have bureaucracies, but bureaucracies led by bureaucrats might be too much of a bad thing.

People in retail banks are not smart. They have a business model that's quite difficult to not make money out of - but still they somehow manage it.

I never learned management. I never went to business school. I'm an artist. I happened to have really clear ideas of what I thought my business should be.

I have to take responsibility for anything that happened within its businesses.

I'm really not a great businessperson. I understand business, and I understand numbers, but I think what I understand more than that is people... Ultimately, I think businesses fail and people fail because they don't have their act together.

I'm a businessman, not a bartender.

These days I'm pretty much a businessman.

I'm a businessman, that's all.

I am a bad businessman who would make a bad producer.

I managed Hewlett Packard through the worst technology downturn in 25 years, the dotcom bust.

Most books on management are written by management consultants, and they study successful companies after they've succeeded, so they only hear winning stories.

The worst way to fire somebody is to let it drag out. It's not good for that person because they're not succeeding in their role. And it's not good for the organization because it's just not working.

There are lots of decisions, and also non-decisions, that go into this job. In the same way that it can be impossible to separate a coach from the players, it's also impossible to separate the GM from the coach from the players. You just have to ask: Is the GM helping the team have playoff success? Is he giving the team a chance to win the title?

Rwanda really did take very strong steps towards development. I mean, this place is unrecognizable. There's a very good management of economy and resources - it's a success story, and that's great.

Management is always part of the equation of making the company successful, so the quality of management always matters.

When Barack Obama was asked about his lack of executive experience in 2008, he pointed to his successful campaign as proof he could manage the presidency.