Quotes About Management

If you are a real leader, every single thing is your fault.

The chairmen of the largest companies in the world can cancel an appointment or move a board meeting; a manager cannot change the date of a game. In the combined 42 years that Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger have managed in English football, I can only remember one occasion when Sir Alex did not attend a Manchester United game.

Sir Alex Ferguson is one of the best managers in football history.

Sir Alex is so consistent with his management. He manages each person differently, but you know exactly where you are with him. You know exactly what is required.

I've always admired great football managers, and Sir Alex Ferguson had so much success.

Manchester United is a world-famous club, and yet if you say, 'Manchester United,' then immediately you think of Sir Alex Ferguson. To have achieved so much and have so much importance at such a big club is extremely rare.

Sir Alex Ferguson must be very high up on the list of greatest managers ever. Then there is Fabio Capello, and people forget how much Giovanni Trapattoni achieved at Inter and especially Juventus.

In this business, you don't have to be an architect or an engineer or a brick layer. But you have to understand how the money flows. That you can only understand if you're on the site.

People have to be confident about their sites. We're confident, number one, because under my administration we're managing our airports better than we've ever done before.

Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?

When you see that the head of human resources is sitting in the meeting you've been called into, it's not a good sign.

One of the key qualities a leader must possess is the ability to detach from the chaos, mayhem, and emotions in a situation and make good, clear decisions based on what is actually happening.

I do tend to be a leader in situations in my own life.

When it comes down to business, everybody is very businesslike... I have never felt any difficulty in dealing with any of these situations.

I love cooking, but I love the business, too. It's important because a lot of chefs forget the business side and have to shut down after six months.

When a hospital isn't under as much pressure, you start to see things slowing down, and it might take five, six, seven days to get the person discharged, and that's the length of stay, so it's all these different factors come into play all the time.

The world has changed, and it's almost been 11 years. I have 975 employees. I have six restaurants. We haven't opened any new ones in almost three years.

George Tenet was actually a very strong centralizing force. If you met George by personality, George met with the president six days out of seven: nontrivial attribute inside the federal government. And George was head of the CIA.

The Puente Hills Landfill, about sixteen miles east of downtown Los Angeles, serves 5 million people in seventy-eight California cities, one of six landfills operated by the Sanitation Districts of L.A. County.

I was head of the Sixth Form Centre when I left the school.

I think people forget that a lot of directing is just real management of the size of a production.

Scheduling is always tough, no matter what the budget size is, and we had our own run-ins with that on 'Fading of the Cries.'

I used to have to pick up the phone and talk to people who placed orders for the car. When you reach a certain size, you need to have processes in place.

If I have one skill as a manager, I can make things extremely clear.