Quotes About Management

A lot of us have jobs where we need to give people structure but that is different from controlling.

But getting your party structure right may also be a precondition for getting your policies right.

President Clinton intentionally created a structure that was a little loose. And one that kept him a little in the center. He didn't want one person filtering all the information that went to him. He had always operated with a lot of information coming in and a lot of stuff going out.

International donors, our friends, should demand results; impose results. The fact of giving money is not helping if you give money to honest people and there is no structure to manage that money. It is not helping.

What I have found is that, in a family business structure, sometimes what is needed is a sense of discipline rather than creativity. You have to take everyone's ideas and make it work. When you are dealing with money, there is a limitation on how creative you can be.

Everybody has a corporate structure.

I'm very structured. I like planning things out. I get frustrated when they don't go according to plan.

You can't manage the creative process on a quarterly basis. The way we're structured has really helped us grow.

Obama, for all his brilliance, has no real, felt understanding of management structures or of business.

I have an assistant who's very good at email, so I don't struggle with it.

The best doctor, if you're sick, may not be the one that shares your faith. We found that out to be true at Liberty with the years of struggles with the accountants and lawyers we brought in and the financial management.

After the non-Japanese Carlos Ghosn was brought in by Nissan to turn around the struggling auto manufacturer, he made English the company's official working language.

I always look at it that I work with my employees as opposed to them working for me.

Arsenal is a team that, even if they score two or three, people believe that at the end of the day, they might lose or draw. They have to learn to seal off games so that the opposition can't come back when they're one or two-nil up.

That's a large part of the job as governor: to create and maintain the optimal balance.

The obligation of every ethical management is to make sure we optimize the long-term value of the company.

The optimum committee has no members.

A long-term manager is a better option than a short-term one, but you've got to get the right man.

When you get angry, your options narrow.

The better the orchestra, often the harder it is to conduct, not the other way around.

When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30.

Business people have always liked my administration because we gave the best law and order.

When ordering lunch, the big executives are just as indecisive as the rest of us.

Oregon deserves a Governor who is fully focused on the duties of state.