Quotes About Management

The government of Dubai, as much as it is a government, it is a corporation.

We've got some well-run corporations by some well-intended people who do it right.

A boss is all about good business, so start with everything that you can control and you can turn up that costs you nothing, then lay all the knobs out, look at all the controls, all the remotes, and just turn them all up. It don't cost you nothing.

If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.

I was previously the chairman of the Jurong East Town Council and South West CDC.

I've lost count of all my assistant coaches who have been made head coaches.

My money mistake is that I am very bad at spending it on myself. And worse in keeping a count of it.

Measuring how hard your team is working by counting the number of hours they work or what time they get in and leave is how amateurs run companies.

Experience counts in government even more than in business.

Everybody manages differently and as far as I'm concerned the results are the only thing that counts.

I remember being, like, the age of 7 and just always being in control of something or someone, a baby somewhere. I had lots of cousins and brothers, and we were all taught that's how you are, you know. Things don't just run themselves; you have to make them run.

A country is not managed through cousins and confidants.

Time is the scarcity, and it's the commodity we can't create any more of.

Companies need to have rules - that's a given - but they don't have to be shortsighted and lazy attempts at creating order.

Managers are the most creative people in the world.

Most creative people fall into one of two categories - either they're task-oriented, or they're time-oriented.

There's an eternal war between a creative person and the business person.

The more you keep costs down, the more freedom you have creatively.

I need to have the soul bank full as well as pay the credit cards and have a roof over my head.

I have never run after the captaincy in my entire career. It is something for the cricket board to decide.

History is full of lessons for how water crises could have been avoided or better managed.

When we look at economic crises, it is more often policy makers do too little than too much.

You have to take it seriously that the economy is in crisis.

When everything is going well, the role of the state in the economy should be limited. When we are in a crisis, it's different.