Quotes About Management

When we look at really good high-performing companies abroad, they are always at the back of an extremely high-performing board, and that is something which is very lacking in this country.

We can't continue to put people lacking the ability to understand a business in a position to run a business.

The further you get up the corporate ladder, the farther you get from the actual filmmaking process.

I always clean before the cleaning lady comes. If not, when I come home, I can't find anything. Cleaning ladies are always hiding things you leave out.

I have never laid a brick in my life. But my people have laid more bricks than anybody else put together. Because I know how to pay.

I know the Lakers are gonna make decisions for the Lakers.

One rich Man hath Lands, not only more than he can manage, but so much, that letting them out to others, he is supplied with a large over-plus, so needs no farther care.

Whenever I get an audition to do something that is sci-fi-related, it makes me really happy because I realize that I can continue doing the work that I'm doing and continue meeting people all over the world. It does baffle my management team sometimes, though!

I make decisions based on my work, not based on meetings with my business managers, who I don't like to meet.

I hate having people sit in on meetings.

Board meetings should not be for the benefit of the board. They should be for the benefit of the CEO and the senior team.

Like many, I am often in back-to-back meetings most of the day.

I'd never managed anyone before, so I don't have a lot of experience. But I'm lucky - I have a lot of team members who have a really honest relationship with me.

The NRA was run like an old-time club when I took over. We were in the red and getting cut off from our membership.

I own two basketball teams; one of men and women.

I'm always going to have to manage my mental health issues.

Gotti my mentor. He like a big brother that helps manage my career.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

You don't get a manager's job at a big club unless it is in a mess.

Not having an administrator sends the wrong message to the airline industry.

Democrats are very good at governing. When it comes to messaging, I'm not too sure about.

When I got to GM they were using a matrix method of management which means everybody has more than one boss. I first heard about that system many years ago. It's supposed to help with collaboration, but my assessment is that it's pretty hard to get geared for action that way.

The most common way to grow a business is by overseeing each and every aspect of the company - the 'ground up' method.

The Porto players were with me for two and a half years, they believed in me, in my methods, in the way we do it. The next day I go and a manager arrives who works completely differently.