Quotes About Management

I always keep busy it gives you an opportunity to go through your coaching methods, your files, to see how other managers are working and re-educate yourself.

I won't be managing the Mets. I am closing the door on managing the Mets and probably everybody else.

It's tough to say where I live. There are some bills that get to the house in L.A., some to the house in Mexico, and some to the house of my father - so I never lose track of those.

One person I find fascinating is J.Crew's Mickey Drexler. I would love to get into that brain and see how it works.

You can't have a mid-life crisis in the airline industry because every day is a crisis.

I don't give my employees hours - some of them come in at 7 A.M., some at 10 A.M., some stay until 6 P.M. or midnight. They have that freedom to come and go as they wish, although they all put in more hours than your 9 to 5.

As responsible politicians, you have to manage migration.

One thing is undeniable. If we are going to continue to have support for migration, we need to be able to control the numbers.

In management, everything is different. If you look at successful coaches, they always need time to kickstart something. Arrigo Sacchi - when he started the revolution at Milan, he was almost on the brink of being sacked, but then he won, and people started believing in the system; he had more time to breathe.

It goes without saying that when you're the manager of a Premiership club, you go eight miles down the road and get beaten by a team two divisions below you, it's disappointing.

From Rebecca Miller, I took the idea that the director needs to arrive every day an hour ahead of everyone else and walk through the entire day.

In a company like Gucci, you can lose millions and millions in a second.

When I was the finance minister, I got on well with the RBI Governor.

Running a government as chief minister and managing affairs of the nation are different things.

Jayalalitha has turned out to be a failure as chief minister.

As the Chief Minister, I make it a point that review meetings are conducted every day - sometimes more than thrice a day - involving heads of all departments concerned.

Apart from being a chief minister, I am also the national president of my party. So I have to take care of the party in other states as well as in U.P.

In 60 years I'm yet to meet a Chief Minister who blames others for his own inability to work.

I have always ensured that law and order was maintained during my tenures as Chief Minister of the state.

I had ministers who were just outstandingly good.

Ministers may not be responsible for administrative errors, but they are responsible for major policy blunders.

I now know what to do; I know how decisions can be made. I know how you can drive ministers and their departments to actually make decisions and bring results.

I can't change my ministers. They are all doing a good job.

I understand all the problems for the Ministry of Defence, of course I do; working within a budget and trying to do so many things is not easy.