Quotes About Management

Campaigns are crazy things. They're half startup, half enterprise.

All companies - and not just startups - face the same eternal challenge: resource allocation.

Every cook has to learn how to govern the state.

I am not about to let the people who so mismanaged the state budget now try to manage local government.

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can't run a state.

It is not for the State Department or even the Secretary of State to say when and how the resources of the American people will be spent.

Mr. Tillerson's obsession with downsizing our diplomacy has colored his time at the State Department.

I think the thing that I learned is I will never let a staff have too much control again, which is a strong statement.

A pile of bills and statements - whether paid or not - is a sign that someone is clueless about what's coming in and going out.

A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.

I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant.

From doing Power Station, it was like, it's the same guys, but it doesn't sound like them. When we were in Duran, the labels and management wanted more Duran stuff so they could sell it.

I mean, Trump's Oval Office is like Grand Central Station. People try briefing him and someone comes in and interrupts him. People just sort of walk in without being previously announced in any meaningful way.

I've managed stations.

Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, in the next century we are going to have to try to become much more skilled at creating leaders.

I always had to diet. I'm diabetic, so it's a lifestyle for me anyway just to stay healthy and not end up in the hospital.

Stay small and control it yourself.

I make time to exercise. It's not being indulgent. I think it's got a lot to do with your ability to manage properly and stay focused. There's no doubt about that.

My father was a misanthrope who slept all day and stayed up all night so that he wouldn't have to see people. He ran a business with a large staff but would go there at night and leave things for them to do during the day when he wasn't there.

Game management is accomplished by staying constantly alert and then reading and reacting to potential problem situations before they materialize. It all boils down to paying attention to details.

I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized.

When I first started in the business, I spent so much! Staying in a Trump Hotel for two years, spending eight Gs a month just living.

I'm a really big believer in chief executives not staying forever.