Quotes About Management

I always like to refer managers in corporate America as the renters of the corporate assets, not the owners.

Net Neutrality originally referred to management of the 'last mile' of the network over which data flows into a person's home, but the debate has grown beyond that in recent years.

'Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.

Too many talk about a company's leadership, referring to the senior most executives in the organization. They are just that: senior executives. Leadership doesn't automatically happen when you reach a certain pay grade. Hopefully you find it there, but there are no guarantees.

It's all a matter of how agents want to handle their clients.

But if I had to do it, handle money, then I think I could be responsible, yes.

I have learned how to better handle things as they come.

I enjoy basketball. I enjoy coaching basketball. It's the out-of-season stuff I didn't handle well.

When there is a crisis, how you handle the crisis is just as important as the crisis.

I'm not afraid of the media. I think I know how to handle them because I've been around them enough.

The Ranbaxy acquisition doesn't preclude us from making more large acquisitions. The important issue is whether we have the management bandwidth to handle the acquisition.

A lot of people out there get hounded about things that are going on in their lives. You just find ways to handle it and go on about your business.

I have always been able to handle situations well once they've happened to me.

For a franchise system to work well, you really need people with an entrepreneurial mind-set because, while you have a large, overarching system that everybody has to work with, a lot of local issues have to be handled.

I haven't been somebody who's been smart about his money. There are a couple of actors who are quite brilliant with the way they've handled their money. But they're not very good actors.

The reality is even if you are a hands-on Mayor or Governor or chief executive, at best, you must know about 10 or 20% of what's going on. Otherwise, you never get through the day... I was very hands on, and there's lots of stuff I didn't know, and lots of things that either went wrong or right that I would find out about afterwards.

Vince has always been so hands-on, and that's why WWE does so well.

More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.

After the first ball is bowled, it's only chaos. What you are trying to do is you're trying to manage the chaos. It's not like a script that happens.

The music is the easy part. The business is the hard part.

You read these management books that say, 'These are the hard things about running a company.' But those aren't really the hard things. The hard things are when you have to layoff half your company, or you have to fire your best friend. Or you have to figure out a way not to go bankrupt.

The thing that helped me most when I started my own business was my experience as the president and PR director of student associations in college. Because of that I knew how to create and run an organization and how to really make things - even hard things - happen.

I thought if we could put our hard-working culture as traders into the asset management, it will be a great combination, and we did do that.

He hath no leisure who useth it not.