Bill Laswell Quotes

I suppose I was always attracted to the producing function - trying to put things together and make things happen.

The leadership qualities that you have to have to be a producer on a film is something I learned being a captain on the team.

Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.

Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

Leadership is inspiring people. Management is keeping the trains running on time.

The thing that helped me most when I started my own business was my experience as the president and PR director of student associations in college. Because of that I knew how to create and run an organization and how to really make things - even hard things - happen.

To get things done, you have to get people together.

Time management is a big part of the director's job.

If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team.

The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.

Leadership means forming a team and working toward common objectives that are tied to time, metrics, and resources.

And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.

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

Regarding managing people, I am lucky to be surrounded by good, smart friends, some of whom own their own companies or have worked in ones and can lend experience.

Good management has helped me find much of the success I've got.

My job as a director is to communicate, and I want to communicate to all.

I believe in MWA - management by walking around - so I spend as much time as possible traveling and visiting franchise partners. You only learn by walking around and meeting people.

I would like to be a manager, to organize everything in training, see if my philosophy could work, and give it to the team.

I'm very much a leader in a lot of the work that I do or that I've done in my career.

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

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

My job involves a lot of different skills now - I'm as much entrepreneur and management consultant as anything else these days - but IA is still my favorite part of the work I do.

In recent years, more and more of my time has become absorbed by administrative work for the research council of ETH-Z of which I am presently the president.

To me, success in the job is setting a vision, guiding an organization through change - which is exactly what I did at Digitas, and I'm very proud of that - and bringing people together and with you. That, to me, is what it takes to be successful.

Effective management always means asking the right question.