Quotes About Management

You have to take each player as a separate case and understand how to deal with them, which is not easy when you start in the job and are confronted with a player telling you he has a gambling or a drink problem.

I am more focused on the games; things like contracts I leave with my agent.

Game management, game decisions, adjustments, seeing things during games - it's all important.

I personally thank Rahul Gandhi. He has given me complete free hand in running the government.

All the best companies quickly go downhill after the departure of people like Bill Gates - even when such very able people have tried very very hard to avoid exactly this problem.

If I sound like a technology geek, that's probably because I am. But I also love running good businesses.

I would love to be a general manager just for the challenge.

I have to let the general manager do what makes the most sense, or I can't hold him accountable.

There's nothing wrong with having a bit of fun as long as I continue to do my duties as General Manager.

If you over-react to a crisis legislatively it generally ends in disaster.

To avoid a blackout, electricity generating companies must lower generation in line with low demand.

I have seven apartments in the house to keep in a state fit to be inspected everyday by Gentlemen.

The life of a business is not like a football team! We are not taking part in an Italy-France game or against Germany.

I think that the Bayern coach is the second hardest job in Germany after the Chancellor.

The business always gets in the way of basketball.

I don't think you can control people. I don't think you manage people. I think you give people a direction, you give them the resources, you lead by example. They get it right, you say, 'Atta girl.' And they get it wrong, you say, 'Not good.'

It's important to learn how to use your small bits of time. All those begin to count up. It's not the long amounts of time you have that are important. you should learn how to use your snatches of time when they are given to you.

There is a difference between giving directions and giving direction.

If performance management were a movie, it will become less 'Gladiator' and more 'Moneyball.'

If we call ourselves the preeminent wealth management firm globally, then it would be impossible not to be a strong player in the biggest market in the world, the Americas.

I run businesses all around the United States, all around the globe.

I do want to get into the government and work for finance management divisions and policy management, but they are all long-term dreams and I don't know when I'll decide to go for it.

I try to control my box. I always think the goalkeeper has to be the chief of the box: it's his area, and he has to defend it.

We don't control Canelo or Golden Boy.