Quotes About Management

Don't ever be afraid to hire people that are smarter than you. Just because they are smarter than you doesn't mean they have to make more money.

I don't think I'm any smarter than any of my developers.

In Joe Yorio you find a guy who's smarter at business than I am. I'm an entrepreneur and idea guy; he's a professional businessman.

There's smarter people than me. But you cannot have any one guy running 18 billion-dollar businesses. It just doesn't make sense to me. I've met some extraordinary leaders in my time. They struggle with running one billion-dollar business.

We hire people who are smarter than us.

We don't need more government, we just need the government we have to work smarter and more efficiently.

I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that's a big deal. And if you're going to be a leader - if you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.

My philosophy is to always find the smartest people you can. Hire people smarter than you.

I was a general business major, which meant that in any business school and particularly at Smith School, which is a very good school, you do a lot of team projects. Well I was the guy who gave the presentations for the team projects.

You have to maintain the balance between fast growth and smooth growth. It's like driving a car and knowing when to balance the gas pedal and the brake.

It's my job to run the offense and make sure everything goes smoothly.

I always think if I'd had kids that I'd manage them like I do my dog Margaret: camps, playdates, naps, and lots of snacks. They'd all be fat.

Credit cards are like snakes: Handle 'em long enough, and one will bite you.

I'm kind of the crisis communications person at 'SNL.' If there are fires to put out, they try and find me.

I've learned a lot about business from snowboarding: how companies run, how the game works.

Directing is a unique endeavor where you are in charge of so many people. As a writer, it is sort of the opposite.

At Inter, we spent so much time dealing with politics, with agents. That took up 50 percent of my time, when it should have been 10 percent.

You only have so much time in a day.

There is hardly less torment in running a family than in running a country.

Government is the right disposition of things.

As mudanças económicas do século XVIII tornaram necessário fazer circular os efeitos do poder, por canais cada vez mais sutis, chegando até os próprios indivíduos, seus corpos, seus gestos, cada um de seus desempenhos cotidianos. Que o poder, mesmo tendo uma multiplicidade de homens a gerir, seja tão eficaz quanto se ele exercesse sobre um só.

You can't keep living without a plan for your money. That's like going on a cross-country trip to visit cities and towns you've never been to before, only you don't have a roadmap.

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Solo en Little Italy quebraron veinticinco bancos, y su bancarrota costó a doce mil clientes los ahorros de toda su vida. Cientos de pequeñas empresas se fueron a pique. Solo las que estaban bien consolidadas, bien dirigidas y bien administradas tuvieron posibilidades de sobrevivir.