Quotes About Management

Even after creating a budget and being more money conscience, it's still easy to overspend during the holidays.

In Holland, you can step into the manager's office and ask him for clarity if you don't know why you're not playing and they are open with you.

What I learned from my go-round with 'In the Heights' is that it's tough to make a movie. In Hollywood, even the people in charge have people in charge.

That's why I left Germany and went to L.A., that's why I hooked up with the lawyers, that's why I hooked up with a big management company - just to protect us, to keep the kind of image I could live with.

Leader Reid is doing a horrendous job.

I don't want to be in boardrooms talking about hiring hairdressers and minivans. I'm not good at it, and I don't like to hire and fire people. I hate that. It's horrible.

The emphasis in thoroughbreds is managing the horses as much as it is training them.

Before being elected to Congress, I oversaw the Cook County Hospital System as a Cook County Commissioner for 10 years.

How can you franchise hospitality?

A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.

When you are the host, you have to take the party into your hands like a conductor.

When you are on the host's seat you have to synchronize with so many things.

I used to host a show 'Ghuggi Express' on Zee Punjabi and it aired more than 130 episodes and I single handedly managed the show.

It is very important that a leader in the hotel industry be both creative, I think, and compassionate.

I don't know anything about the hotel business.

I sometimes feel like I should be in the hotel business.

Films and hotels have many aspects that are the same. For example, there is always a big vision, an idea.

There are never enough hours in the day.

And be careful of this, that each day at your meals you have two overseers over your household when you sit at meals, and of this be sure, that you shall be very much feared and reverenced.

Good household decision-making often relies on thinking about your household like a firm.

There's a lot going on in the Bassett-Vance household, a lot of balls in the air.

I was going to start a housekeeping business at one point because I'm really good at cleaning houses.

We don't have butlers. Obviously we have people who look after the houses, but I try not to run things formally.

I believe the only measure of government response shouldn't be how much we spend on a situation, but rather how well we spend.