Quotes About Management

During my seven-year contract with RKO, there were seven different studio presidents, from David O. Selznick to Charles W. Koerner. You literally had to check the name on the door so as not to call the new boss by the former boss's name.

I like studios. I just don't like bureaucracies.

The studios have been taken over by marketing people and accountants.

If you look at successful studios, they're the ones with stabilized management.

The main trouble with Hollywood is that the guys you have to pitch to, the guys who run the studios, are all business school grads.

Agents have enormous power that studios relinquished to them. The studios, when I first came to Hollywood, that's where the power was.

We don't over-manage projects like the studios do.

That is what a good manager does - you study and think and discuss, and you come up with a model of playing.

The actual course is called fishery studies, and you study general aquatics and fishery management.

What I'm trying to do is teach people how to actually get individuals in organizations to do the kinds of things to make a difference. It starts with not just studying the mechanics but really understanding how people operate.

I'm actually studying hospitality and I have a concentration in event planning and design. I study mostly around event management and a little bit of business.

I'm not of the manor born; I've never felt entitled in that way. I just came to Hollywood to be an actor. All that lifestyle stuff is something to be managed.

There's a lot of directing within the stunt coordinator's job.

The owners and managers were too stupid to realize we had brains.

A lot of times I make people better by getting stupid, distracting, bureaucratic stuff off their desk. That's an incredibly easy way to make a senior person more productive.

Stupidity cannot be controlled, only contained.

People have different styles: Some are filers and some are pilers. The people who pile things often know exactly where things are, and they're often just as organized as the people who file things.

Managers have different leadership styles and ways to go about their business. But in the end it doesn't matter if the manager is old-fashioned, old school or always looking towards the future.

I've played under different managers, different styles, and most of my career, I was asked to play long.

People talk about managers having certain styles and philosophies... well, Benitez manages by conflict. Look right through his career and you will see it everywhere.

I think the biggest thing I learned was the different types of leadership styles and the ways of pushing peoples' butts, because they're all different.

I've had 20 years, 25 years of running business. I've been well trained by a number of amazing organizations and I've got a lot of implicit, subconscious pattern recognition on how to make business decisions.

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

We all learn submission because we all have 'bosses', whether we're presidents of companies or not. The easiest place to learn it is in family.