Barry Diller Quotes

Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

Reading a book about management isn't going to make you a good manager any more than a book about guitar will make you a good guitarist, but it can get you thinking about the most important concepts.

A manager is an assistant to his men.

I knew nothing about managing when I started.

The key to being a good manager or a good entrepreneur is to pick the right people. Pick the right people, and they'll make you look good.

That is good to have a manager who is very clear.

As a goalkeeper you need to be good at organising the people in front of you and motivating them. You need to see what's going on and react to the threats. Just like a good manager in business.

The true genius of a great manager is his or her ability to individualize. A great manager is one who understands how to trip each person's trigger.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

I've never seen myself as a manager. As a manager, you have to put all your time into the job, and that would be difficult for me.

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.

Leadership and management are not synonymous.

I try to help people with management stuff a lot.

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.

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

Good leaders need a positive agenda, not just an agenda of dealing with crisis.

Decisiveness is the one word that makes a good manager.

Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.

I'd never managed anyone before, so I don't have a lot of experience. But I'm lucky - I have a lot of team members who have a really honest relationship with me.

I think directors should be confident in their leadership capabilities. I think directors should be confident in what they want to do.

Over the past several years, I've been more in a managerial role.

My definition of an executive's job is brief and to the point. It is simply this: Getting things done through other people.

A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.

Management is different from leadership..