Quotes About Management

I always worked in institutions, I never had a restaurant of my own before, but I have opened over 30 hotels, restaurants and casinos. I understand what it takes to keep them running.

I opened an office in Terre Haute, established eight of them, and became one of the eight county agents.

Having never taken a business class, the economics of restaurants scared me. I opened Chipotle with the idea that I could step away from it and use it to support my full-scale restaurant.

I even opened a nightclub called Evonne's.

A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator.

I would like to see whether my supposed successors can really operate the government without causing a crisis.

The organization is a way for people to find us and deal with us and know how we operate.

If you don't operate it as a business, you aren't going to be around very long.

In the U.S., we didn't have scale, and without scale, it's difficult to operate.

Obviously I've got a great team of people within the company. You can't operate all by yourself. We have a good board of directors and a big bench, and they can make decisions if I'm not around.

Dealing with Jazz at Lincoln Center and its board of directors, who are so great, and then seeing how these Rock Hall guys operate, it's like: 'Really?' It seems like they're total amateurs when it comes to doing shows and contracts.

To make our state operate more like a business, we must get a handle on all of our assets and liabilities.

One of the world's most successful and yet mysterious companies in the world, Samsung Electronics, has been operating without its leader for months and likely will continue to do so for some time to come.

Most chief executives rise to that position by being good operating managers. Few have extensive experience or training with capital allocation. What CEO wants to return excess cash to shareholders when it could be used to expand his or her empire?

I love doing deals and operating companies.

In India, we have the global services HQ, R&D centres, global network operating centres, global manufacturing, and product management - India is not just a market but a country we use for extended NSN.

I get by mostly on speaking engagements, but as soon as I try to pay myself, I end up having to give it back to the business to cover operating expenses or other unplanned costs.

When I first opened Milk Bar, I was also making desserts for the Momofuku restaurants. I will say that by day three or day four, I realized that operating a bakery was so different from operating a restaurant.

As I have conveyed before, ultimately I would like to lead a team's basketball operation and be a part of a successful franchise.

I'm a businessman. Making records is my business. I have a big operation and I employ a lot of people.

Keep your debt low, and ask, Can your operational expertise make an impact? Then you're taking away a lot of the risk.

We have problems with our physical security, operational security through to management.

In large companies, the CEO is very distant from operations.

When I was at Teradata, I got called a growth guy. And then when I became C.E.O. of the whole company, I got called a cost-cutter. Then, I came to H.P. and became an operations guy.