Quotes About Management

I try to manage my time to conserve energy.

I prioritise my time so what needs to be done, gets done.

No, I have someone who comes to the house and washes it, puts in the dry shampoo, and takes care if it because I have no time.

It takes our government an awful lot of time to do most things competently, and that's part of the problem here.

When I was leader of the GLC, by the time I had been in control for three years, the difference in pay between the cleaner and the director general was a four-to-one ratio. I find that attractive.

During my time as England captain I have always been both helpful and direct in my communications with the ECB.

It's always a difficult time to be secretary general.

Your retirement identity is of a successful person who creatively and efficiently manages your money and lifestyle to adapt to the ever changing economic and personal conditions of our time.

I spent all my time on my movies worried that people were eating and that the schedule was being kept, so to have experts in those areas giving me the brain space as a writer and director is huge.

In order to become a big-league manager you have to be in the right place at the right time. That's rule number one.

You've got to learn to handle the press because god knows the government does all the time.

An inadequate chief executive officer's time at the top is always too long no matter how short.

Instapaper is much bigger today than I could have predicted in 2008, and it has simply grown far beyond what one person can do. To really shine, it needs a full-time staff of at least a few people.

The time you spend with your best (employees) is, quite simply, your most productive time.

Time is the most valuable asset you don't own.

In a normal time, I don't think economic policy makes a large difference one way or another. But in times of crisis it makes all the difference in the world.

Studios are an assembly line. They can be a very good assembly line. As a producer, you concentrate on one project at a time. As an executive, you're in charge of a slate.

21 years as CEO is a long time. I was and probably still am the longest serving CEO in America. Certainly I am in the media industry, bar none.

And I'm not a micromanagement guy. I prefer to spend my time doing other stuff than that.

To me it's like, every time I'm a director, like today, you're the captain of the ship, so you better dress like it. You're the host of the party.

We have a lot of great creators in Square Enix, but for larger-scale development we will be doing more distributed and outsourced development to reach our targets on time.

If you want to be popular all the time, you will misgovern

For a long time, the for-profit world has told us in the not-for-profit sector to behave more like businesses.

Unproductive worry - like Parkinson's proverbial law - tends to expand to fill the time available.