Quotes About Management

I have dabbled in management but I found it a little too all consuming.

I will continue to help run my father's company.

When you change your lineups all the time, you lose that continuity. It's all over the place.

Since I entered the league, half of my checks have always gone into a separate account... I pride myself on doing that. I've done it no matter the size of my contract or salary.

I was president of a company and that company had a contract with the state.

I learned that in senior football it's about managing the game. People are playing for contracts and playing for careers, so when you're 1-0 up or 2-0 up, you have to see the game out.

If you run the ball, you control the clock. If you control the clock, you usually control the game.

I like to be in control.

I am pretty controlled I have to say.

Making 'Caddyshack' was like an exercise in controlled chaos.

I like lists, I'm controlling, I like order. I'm difficult on every level.

As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling.

There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end.

Auto-pay is not for convenience; it's for the gainfully employed.

It's important not to try to convince others of your own reasons for change. Finding the reason why they should want to support your efforts is the key to effective change management.

At a school in Massachusetts where I once worked, we managed early on through consensus. Which sounds wonderful, but it was just a very, very difficult way to sort of manage anything, because convincing everybody to do one particular thing, especially if it was hard, was almost impossible.

I don't get to cook in my own restaurant.

I always cooperate to complete a film within the budget. Not a single film of mine has overshot its budget.

Most of us feel overburdened by information, although I would say the overloaded feeling comes more from coordinating all of the information and responding to it.

When you become the manager of a leading club, there are so many situations you have to cope with. You have to deal with the people in charge of the club, the players, the media, the expectation... you have to deal with the whole environment around the club, and that is something you can find difficult.

I've always focused on technology and growth and don't have the core competency to do liability management - I'm a mechanical engineer.

I do a lot of corporate consulting work. I've been doing it a long time.

I have long believed the corporate world is plagued by poor capital allocation decisions.

So if I die, somebody else from the corporation will take over the business.