Quotes About Leadership

Filmmaking is all about people management.

It's always better to make a hero than lean on one. My goal is to emulate China in the filmmaking business, not Los Angeles.

That's what I learned most about directing on my own - you've got to build a family, a filmmaking family.

You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don't think so. On my films I decide.

The kind of work I do and the films I believe in, I had to take charge of making that kind of cinema.

Cruise director is - I always laugh and say, 'He's the ship's liver,' because almost everything you can think of filters through you at some point.

I want all the mistakes to be mine, and I want to take responsibility for everything even if I fail. Whatever the project is, I need to have the final say.

Carrie Lam is a proxy leader.The final decision-maker is President Xi.

Israel Adesanya will not be Eugene Bareman's final UFC champion.

I really love being finance director.

I am not responsible for the financial crisis, I hate to tell you.

I can't help but think what would have happened if a divisive character such as Trump were president during the 2008 financial crisis, at a time when leadership, compromise, and careful analysis were critical.

My low point was after being reorganized out of running Merrill Lynch. That dismissal deeply contradicted my sense of fairness, since, at the time, my team and I had done what we were brought in to do: We had turned Merrill Lynch around from the depths of the financial crisis.

I made my money in an honest way. And I have declared it all. By co-founding Infosys along with Mr. Murthy and others, I earned financially.

I find if you are in an office, the crisis finds you. If you're not in the office, the crisis finds somebody else.

Everybody else is calling this 'Reggie's Team' and that's fine with me. It's just another challenge I have to face, and I look forward to it.

I would like to say that no man ever was given finer cooperation than that given me by President Truman.

Having Willie Stargell on your ball club is like having a diamond ring on your finger.

When people start to write articles about what might be wrong with the 'Today' show you know where you should point the finger, point it at me because I have been there the longest. And it's my responsibility.

I am not one of these guys that looks to the locker room and points fingers. That has never been my MO.

People point fingers at the leader. That happens in every sport.

Last guys don't finish nice.

Most bands, if something goes wrong, they cower and walk off stage and fire people.

If a manager can't control his costs, fire them.