Jerry Reinsdorf Quotes

I'm the CEO; I'm the one who should be looking out for risk.

When you're the CEO, you take responsibility.

Clearly in my mind, I have two distinct positions - owner and manager. So I am open to reviewing my performance as a manager as any other person in Sun Pharma.

One has to live with the fact that some corporate decisions are going to be wrong. As long as most of the decisions are right.

Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.

A manager doesn't hear the cheers.

If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.

One of the sad truths about leadership is that, the higher up the ladder you travel, the less you know.

No matter how many or how few people you have reporting to you, you must remember that as you climb higher in the ranks, your words will be taken as commands even if you're just thinking out loud.

When I wear the hat of management, it is important that our management behaves and conducts as management accountable to the board.

Management must manage!

If a chairman sacks the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well.

In my opinion, the most important thing in governance is management control.

Let me control personnel, and I will ultimately control policy.

Lack of accountability in any decision making structure is not tolerable.

If heads don’t roll, nobody makes any changes

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

The voting public is not very good at attributing credit and blame to presidents. They get too much credit when things go well and too much blame when things go badly. The same applies to coaches, C.E.O.'s, parents, and anyone else in charge.

One thing that we've invested a lot of in, that we all live by, is the power of the commissioner.

The goal isn't just to make transactions: it's to make better decisions in the way you run your business. If that's not at the top of every executive's priorities, then they shouldn't be an executive.

Every manager feels a responsibility to his board of directors and the public and the players.

When I was working in the Pentagon, I had to own the recommendations I made up the chain of command.

Being the leader means you have to make life or death decisions sometimes.

Now I know how Jack feels when he has told three people that they can each be Secretary of State.

When the public or the Council pass the buck up to me I am going to act.