Frances Arnold Quotes

I'm not real good at the administrative part of running a company.

Look, you need technical skills to run a company.

You learn every single day when you're running a company. You learn as you go.

Running a company is pretty demanding.

The hardest thing about starting a company and running a company is, there's just so many expectations on you, and there are so many people who have things that they want you to do. It's a lot like life about that.

Our managers need to have a strong integration of managerial skills and technical understanding. One cannot substitute for the other.

I think if you want to be a successful president or a manager of a team, you need to understand what the business is all about because you have to deal with the business side of the game to be able to do what you need to do.

People must be realistic when evaluating their business.

I am a very hands-on person, and I like to be involved in driving my business.

People have said, 'Why don't you make your own company like Chan-wook Park has his own company,' but my head is full of writing and directing and I don't feel like I want to run a company. That's not really within my personality as well.

Technical people tend to be more 'techie,' and management people are more 'managerial.'

I would love to be a general manager just for the challenge.

Managing through ambiguity can be difficult for even the most experienced leaders. Defining a clear set of goals for your team demonstrates that there is an end in sight. However, it's crucial during this time to move through the transition in phases.

I've had 20 years, 25 years of running business. I've been well trained by a number of amazing organizations and I've got a lot of implicit, subconscious pattern recognition on how to make business decisions.

It's stressful when you run a company.

I did parallel entrepreneurship, which was very hard to do. It was hard to keep your head straight and know which ideas were with which company.

As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term.

Managing is a tough job. When you're young, you just think it's a natural progression - I'm good at this, so I'm going to be good at that - and it's not that way at all.

I always knew that I wanted to do something in business and I prepared myself for that.

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Obama, for all his brilliance, has no real, felt understanding of management structures or of business.

A C.E.O.'s job is leadership, problem solving, and team building. I've done that my whole career.

If a man can't manage his own life, he can't manage a business.

As all entrepreneurs know, you live and die by your ability to prioritize. You must focus on the most important, mission-critical tasks each day and night, and then share, delegate, delay or skip the rest.

Managers are important: they are leading the company and guiding and have to provide vision and manage the daily business.