Quotes About Control

Managers think of themselves as captains of a ship on a stormy sea. Risk for them is danger, but they are fighting it, very controlled.

I think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going crazy.

Jordan Henderson is a player who likes to do his business in the middle of the park.

Taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.

I always said that mega-mergers were for megalomaniacs.

The US presidency will continue to represent the major power groups of the United States - big business and the military - regardless of who the talking head is.

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

I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.

When you grow a business, it belongs to a lot of other people besides you. As much as you want to control it, the minute you go public, it becomes a business . . .

The simple truth is that our businessmen do not want a government that will let business alone. They want a government they can use.

If artists slowly learn how their business works, they'll have the ability to grow at any rate they can dream up, but they'll also have the ability to control the message whatever that might be.

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.

It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.

One trouble is that when Government gets into a business it tends to make it uneconomic for anyone else.

Too many religious organizations are in the business of enforcing beliefs.

This is not a business where you can hand off and run by remote control.

It's a given that if you start your own business, you're going to be (1) in control of your destiny, and (2) real busy.

An uncontrolled sense of humor is often costly in business.

Direct to consumer really gives you control of your business completely.

Without putting the brakes on out-of-control campaign contributions from individuals and corporations - it will be business as usual, with 1 percent of Americans pulling the strings.

In China, you have to have a strong leader for a business to get anything done.

The ideological foundation of today's business schools is that economic control should be shifted out of government hands into those of financial managers - that is, Wall Street.

The inability to delegate is one of the biggest problems I see with managers at all levels

People who own the world outright for profit will have to be stopped by influence, by power, by us.