Quotes About Autonomy

As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there

The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake. The best people don't need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed.

What consenting adults do behind closed doors is not my business.

If your business requires your presence you don't have a business, you have a job.

This summer is going to be a different summer for a lot of people. Everyone is going to take care of their own business and everyone is going to do what's best for them, including me.

I don't know how people get so anti-something. Just mind your own business, take care of your own affairs, and don't worry about other people so much.

I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.

There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.

The surest way to make ourselves crazy is to get involved in other people's business, and the quickest way to become sane and happy is to tend to our own affairs.

We're not responsible for the bustling and hustling that may go on here. Lots of people bustle, and some hustle. But that's their business, and a very old one.

If you're not working to get your business or investing operation to operate without you, you're thinking too small. Think team and systems.

I minded my own business, and, unfortunately, so did everyone else.

Do not let anyone else run your business

Don't go in and tell somebody else how to run their business.

If your business depends on you, you don't own a business—you have a job. And it's the worst job in the world because you're working for a lunatic!

It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients.

I feel the one sensible thing you can do is try to live in a way that pleases you. If you don't hurt anybody else, what you do is your own business.

Liberty is always unfinished business

If anyone asks how old I am, tell them it's none of their business!

No one on earth is allowed to question my business decisions.

I still want to do what I want to do, but we also have to think about some sense of protecting the business that's out there as well.

If I lost control of the business I'd lose myself - or at least the ability to be myself. Owning myself is a way to be myself.

What I do in my own time, is my business.

First, speaking for myself, I don't want to ever be in a position where I'm telling other directors how to make movies, because I don't think it's any of my business.