Paul Scholes Quotes

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

The way you delegate is that first you have to hire people that you really have confidence in. You won't truly let those people feel a sense of autonomy if you don't have confidence in them.

When I finally got a management position, I found out how hard it is to lead and manage people.

I am a director. I'm the one who can order men around.

When you're the CEO, you take responsibility.

I have told the PCB that I want total independence to work with a free mind and pick the best players, and they have assured me it will be done.

When you're a director, the job itself forces you to take charge.

When you're a leader and a manager, you have to make decisions which are right for your group to achieve the primary objective. Sometimes those decisions will be criticised.

I had the best teacher there can be in man management or managing a football club.

I have never been afraid of being in charge, whether I have been coach, manager or caretaker.

I am better when I have control. I am not a power freak. But my point is that I need to feel that I can manage the team and have a direct, clear line through to the owners. Once that becomes hazy, for me, there is a problem.

I like to be the one in charge of everything.

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.

Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

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

I've managed stations.

A CEO needs to build their own team.

I have had the privilege of serving as city comptroller, and I lead 750 professionals in the office, have appointed eight deputy comptrollers... no one has criticized my management of these 750 professionals.

I've got to let the people who are in the business run the business. I can help them think through their decisions about products, about partners, about hiring. But in the end, the decisions are theirs, and so is the responsibility.

I think my best work is when I'm kind of in charge.

Showing leadership doesn't mean every employee will run the organization; that would lead to chaos. Businesses do need someone to set the vision and then lead the team to it.

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

Why do I want somebody to tell me what to do, tell me what I'm doing wrong? I want to be the boss.

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.

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