Quotes About Management

I have always said that management is not something I fancied, but it's suddenly, naturally started to enter my head.

I never sue journalists. I employ journalists. I employ too many of them. I don't sue journalists.

Big corporations don't just belong to one person or two persons but to a whole nation. If you let big corporations fail, then a lot of people are going to suffer.

The most challenging part of being a boss is that nobody will tell you if your work is suffering.

I'm always on the go, which means my health has often been the thing that suffers.

What happens when you have to use your top guys so much, they're going to hit a wall at some point, and they'll go four or five games where they just don't have the juice to play at the level that you need, and therefore your team suffers a little bit.

No candy bars unless I've had a low blood sugar where I'm shaky.

It is important to let every employee know where he or she stands throughout his or her time in your business; I would suggest every quarter of the fiscal year. By being honest and open with each team member and their performance, you create value in their efforts.

You can't let players do what they wish and be professional. That's a fact. As for the team, Boro had two internationals when I got there in 1995. Now they have more than 15. And they didn't cost the fortune some suggest.

The IOC presidency has been suggested to me.

I've never been big on sports coats and pants. I'm a suit guy. It makes it clear who's in charge.

With a suit, even if you're having a nervous breakdown, you still look like you're in charge.

I think you have to be more flexible to be a pro coach because once you pay the guy the money, whether he can backpedal the way you want him to or whatever, his style of play may not suit you, but you still are going to play him, and he is going to be a part of your team.

People go on about my style of play. But I tell you what I do - I go into football clubs, I try to find out what systems suit the players and I try to get the damnedest out of those players. That's what I've done everywhere I've been.

I know I have the support of my managers. But I questioned myself. I reflected on whether I can be suitable for the role of team principal.

We are going to have a suite of products that you subscribe to - television, high-speed Internet, phone, home security, energy management, maybe even health care - and we are going to have many customers that are going to buy those products directly from us.

I'm not suited to Bolton or Blackburn, I would be more suited to Inter or Real Madrid. It wouldn't be a problem to me to go and manage those clubs because I would win the double or the league every time. Give me Manchester United or Chelsea and I would do the same, it wouldn't be a problem.

The government should do its job. The government's job is, in fact, to run the country, to manage the country, to govern the country. And governance is an important thing, not application where it suits one so, to micro control where it suits them on the other hand.

Producing suits me because I have a business mind and a business sensibility.

I think running Apple is a great job, but it suits Steve Jobs so well. I wouldn't want to be the person that ran Apple after Steve, but he has a great job.

Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

It's staggering how many players, even with the sums of money they make, don't do a great job of saving it.

I spent two summers managing the Midland Angels.

Clearly in my mind, I have two distinct positions - owner and manager. So I am open to reviewing my performance as a manager as any other person in Sun Pharma.