Quotes About Management

I have noticed that most of the successful businessmen are not that educated. But they are the ones who hire highly educated employees to work for them.

Notwithstanding my personal affection for Director Comey, I thought it was appropriate to seek a new leader.

Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.

I have been firming up and making changes in my roster for 2001. This needs to be done from now and then, to make sure what you are booking is working, and to keep a balance in your roster that works.

Players have to adapt nowadays, and if you have a good football brain, if you can read the game, you can manage it.

I am in favour of migration; I simply want to control the numbers.

I'm a businessman, and what I know is numbers and business.

In any business, you get your numbers together before you go out and do the work.

Go to any hospital, you'll find wards that are run by senior nurses with matrons. The point is do they have the power, do they have the responsibility inside the hospital?

A good culture in a hospital can absorb and manage a few bad nurses, but once the culture becomes bad in itself, bad nursing practice is much harder to hide.

The thing I'm most focused on today is, how am I maximizing the effectiveness of the leadership team, and what am I doing to nurture it?

Some chefs go crazy with one restaurant, and if I had 20, I would go nuts.

I learned from Al Davis. We didn't have any secretaries. Secretaries, really, in Oakland were young football people.

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

In anger-management training, they teach you never to hit a person - hit an object. That's what they teach you.

For risk management reasons, we need to make sure we hit our inflation objective at the same time we're at full employment.

The objective is the group performance, but every single individual requires a different response from a manager - you can't be the same person to each player.

And I believe in having an administration that has clearly defined goals, objectives and time lines such that it and its people can be held accountable.

What's important is to find a good balance between the team, the objectives and the financial aspect.

One of man's greatest obligations is anger.

To look at the players, to communicate with the players, to observe and to analyze - that's my job.

I have observed that money left without special guidance is sometimes used well and sometimes not.

Managers are obsessed with the game. It's very, very difficult, if not impossible, to live a balanced lifestyle.

The obsession that you have to manage everything - it's really bad.