Quotes About Management

It's absolutely true that unless you can instill discipline upon yourself, you will never be able to lead others.

A society in which women are taught anything but the management of a family, the care of men and the creation of the future generation is a society which is on the way out.

I have many women executives. I always have. When I was back in the construction days, the big construction days, I had women in charge of big developments.

At the BBC we've had plenty of women in good management jobs. It comes and goes but there's been plenty. On air, I think there's quite a bit more we can do.

The whole issue of how women's management styles are viewed is an incredibly interesting subject.

The most useful and honorable science and occupation for a woman is the science of housekeeping. I know some that are miserly, very few that are good managers.

I like the idea of a strong woman in charge.

Success or failure in your work and relationships is dependent on how you manage your feelings.

Demelza was beginning to feel like a lion tamer who has been putting his pets through their paces and finds them getting out of hand.

I wrote my first piece about the disruption of the Harvard Business School in 1999. Because you could see this coming. I haven't yet done the one about the disruption of the Stanford Business School.

I'm almost like three people. There's me the, Dolly, the person. There's me, the star. And then there's me, the manager.

I spent most of my career operating businesses and fixing businesses, not staring at a Bloomberg screen.

I learned a lot about handling fans from established stars.

I often compare putting a hotel together to old-time movie production. You come up with a story line, you hire the writer, the director, the stars, the set designer.

When you consider all the stars I have managed, mere submarines make me smile.

Work-life balance for founders doesn't look like work-life balance for everyone else. Starting a company isn't a nine-to-six job - or a nine-to-nine job, or a nine-to-midnight job.

Doing one movie every two years is about all I can handle 'cause, being the creator at '30 Rock', my year there starts in the middle of June and goes back around until March.

We must fix our immigration system so we control who comes and goes, and that starts by securing our southern border.

I want the USDA to look like America, and I want it to be the best, most effectively managed agency in the U.S. That starts with good people.

The first step in changing a culture, I believe, starts with the senior leadership team - and with the CEO.

Despite what some investors say, older age is an advantage in the startup world. You know more about industries and markets, and have ideas for products that the world actually needs and a better ability to motivate and manage than a kid out of school does.

I believe a board in a small startup company should never vote on anything.

It's fairly common knowledge that a startup can't execute on two products simultaneously.

I was one of the early folks at eBay, and by 1999, it was completely overrun by consultants from McKinsey, Bain, and BCG. It went from being a cool, fun startup to an MBA factory.