Quotes About Management

All leaders must have some power. Without power, you can't be a leader.

When you're leading, don't talk.

Leading from behind doesn't work.

It's not like the NFL is going anywhere, it's one of the best run leagues in the world.

I find I have less time for everything. The assembly elections came so soon, and there is still so much work to be done.

Leaders understand that the real fight is the fight against time. There's so much to achieve in such less time.

When you found a company, you have the original vision, you make all the original decisions, you know every employee, you kind of know every aspect of the product architecture and its limitations.

We all have that long to-do list.

People now feel time accelerating. Lists allow them to feel some sense of accomplishment.

I love to-do lists.

Anuj Bahari has always been a really good literary agent for me. What a good agent does is that he manages many of your business aspects so you can keep your time free for writing.

It can be lonely as a manager out there. You are on the field, yes, but you are not really on the field with them. Yet I have to share with my players my experiences and my knowledge.

If you want people to be let loose, you can't over-control them.

If Mourinho loses 4-1, he doesn't sleep well.

Luckily, as a director I can just tell people what I need and I don't need to tell them how to get it.

Having 18 or 20 class players is a luxurious problem, and it doesn't mean that you have to play them all.

How the hell can I ask people who work for me to travel cheaply if I travel in luxury? It's a question of good leadership.

I like to say time is a luxury.

In the B-52s, we employ a lot of people. It's a machine that keeps it all going, which is wonderful.

The government is a machinery manned by human beings.

What I'd really like to control is not machines, but people.

Remember, if your business isn't making money, then you and your employees aren't, either.

If a man can't manage his own life, he can't manage a business.

Lots of people can manage. That's not the question. It's this: Can we reimagine? Knowing how government works is not the same as getting it to work transformationally.