Too many managers manage by what the postgame press conference is going to be.
You cannot manage an airline from a corner office in Willis Tower. That doesn't work. You've got to manage by walking around.
Casino Manager: Before you go, gentlemen, there's a little matter of the bill. Norm: I'll take care of that. [Norm take a look at the bill] Norm: [shocked] Hundred eighty pounds? Casino Manager: I beg your pardon. Guineas. Casino Croupier: Your winni...
...the more risks you allow children to take, the better they learn to take care of themselves. If you never let them take any risks, then I believe they become very prone to injury. Boys should be allowed to climb tall trees and walk along the tops ...
I looked up at him, rain blending into my tears, ''Michael listen! You told me once that when you thought of life, you thought of this big ship in the middle of the sea and all the dangers and risks and stuff... but you also told me that love is a ri...
We have no idea, now, of who or what the inhabitants of our future might be. In that sense, we have no future. Not in the sense that our grandparents had a future, or thought they did. Fully imagined cultural futures were the luxury of another day, o...
The sooner we associate long hours and multitasking with incompetence and carelessness the better. The next time you hear boasts of executives pulling an all-nighter or holding conference calls in their cars, be sure to offer your condolences; it's g...
The excellent person manages himself. He will not allow the environment to manage him.
In the end, as a manager or coach, you have to keep your heart pure and do your best as a manager or a coach.
I used to get nervous about three weeks before a gig... now I've managed to condense it down to a manageable ten minutes.
Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term.
Sometimes Hollywood manages to knock a movie in its teeth so hard that it never manages to get back up.
The ability to select stocks, manage them over time and know when to sell them is incredibly difficult, even for professional fund managers.
My management team are all women. Most of the people at labels I liaise with are all women. It's pretty much all women all the time.
Why not risk your life, if you don't want to live anyway? Why not risk your life if you'll never be happy no matter what you do?
If you work around at-risk teen students, actually tell them you love them and have faith in their success. No one tells them that. No one.
...one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death.
It’s not that the risk isn’t worth the reward, it’s that the reward isn’t worth as much as another reward, which also has a lesser risk.
My family deals with those risks. The best I can do is talk to them about some of those risks. I'm not incredibly specific with them, especially with my kids.
If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don't take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing.
Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.
