Quotes About Authority

You always depend on what the owners think of the job you are doing.

I'll argue with the owners all day long when they do not allow the players to get the best.

The way that I am, most of my time as a manager has been putting fires out and I don't enjoy dealing with chairmen and owners but I know it's part of my job.

Who has ownership over stories these days?

Ownership is a very complex judicial concept.

If you take away what a person owns, you control what that person can do.

Anytime you get an idea, you need people to help you put it together. That is the beginning of an institution. When you create an institution, levels of authority and boundaries need to be established. If everybody owns it, nobody owns it. If everybody is responsible for it, nobody will be responsible.

I don't know if a historian or scholar owns an opinion.

You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'

Internet governance is an oxymoron. The Internet must govern itself. But you can't play cricket without any rules.

Certainly, when you have shoulder pads on that go up to your ears, you hold yourself a certain way. You speak with authority when you have shoulders like that.

I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.'

We religious controllers control in the name of Jesus and it is really painful to people.

I have a very clear vision, and I come from film, where director is God, so if there's a clash, it's painful.

I don't want it to be a holiday camp, but it shouldn't be a concentration camp either. It is about getting the balance right with my relationship with them. I will do anything for the players but I'm not their pal as well.

Heads of France lead from a palace, and traditionally they retire to a cloud.

Remember, the IDF, the Israeli Defense Forces, have a working relationship with the Palestinian Authority security forces, which have been incredibly professional.

Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist.

All around the world, leaders are gaining more power. That's what this pandemic demands: a coordinated whole-of-nation approach with a powerful conductor at its center.

Continued federal overreach won't end the COVID-19 pandemic or put food on the table.

I like the men to wear the pants. I don't want to wear the pants. I like men who know what they want, know what they're doing, make their own decisions... As much as I like to be the controller, it's not in my best interest.

The people of Haiti have always called me Papa Doc. I was first their doctor. Now I am also their president for life.

As for leadership, I am the kind who leads reluctantly and more by example than anything else. Someone had to be on the incorporation papers as president.

One thing my father said was that if you find yourself in a country where you have to carry papers, you know it has a lousy government.