Quotes About Management

For me, I'm a bit of a control freak.

I'm not saying I'm a control freak, though I'll admit that I am at times.

I can be a little bit of a control freak.

I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball.

The first aspect of a business that you need to make it work well is money. Once the money aspect is flowing, you can freely work on other aspects.

I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.

I always do my firing in the morning because that's when I'm fresh.

In business or in life, focus on the things over which you do have some control. And don't fret about all the other problems. Most of the time, they don't come true anyway!

Export anything to a friendly country except American management.

If you go down the leagues, you have to understand what level you're working with, and if you get frustrated, then it's not going to ever happen for you. That's why a lot of managers don't succeed where they should do.

The government is fully capable of delivering services. Even complex services.

As CEO, I accept responsibility for the irregularities that have been found in diesel engines and have therefore requested the Supervisory Board to agree on terminating my function as CEO of the Volkswagen Group.

It is not the function of the leader of government business to discipline members of the executive.

The functions of the president are prescribed by the Constitution, but his real achievements are not set by the letter of the law. They are determined rather by his personality, the weight of his influence, his capacity for managing men, and the strength and effectiveness of the party forces behind him.

Clearly, as a CEO, you have other functions that are managed by other people.

So, I have the responsibility of making sure that HUD functions and runs well.

My laptop helps me carry on my business functions and stay in touch with my executives when I'm abroad.

We can't just live as rentiers off the oil fund.

With actively managed funds, people have big behavior problems. With funds that have done well, they put their money in, and when it has done bad, they want to take it out.

When a person earns money, it makes sense if he spends it himself. It's a shame when a person earns money, and some strange funds spend it.

The mental business is almost impossible to handle at the apex of government

Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head (not, how can I always do this right thing myself, but) how can I provide for this right thing to be always done?

To be in charge is certainly not only to carry out the proper measures yourself but to see that every one else does so too; to see that no one either willfully or ignorantly thwarts or prevents such measures. It is neither to do everything yourself nor to appoint a number of people to each duty, but to ensure that each does that duty to which he is appointed.

So long as I know what's expected of me, I can manage.