David Droga Quotes

I don't really think of myself as a businessman at all. That's why I have the 'chief creative officer' role.

So I don't think of myself as just a musician at all, I think of myself as an artist.

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

I love being creative. I love acting, but I also love directing because you get to have a vision for the whole and bring that vision to fruition.

Men of routine or men who can do what they are told are not hard to find; but men who can think and plan and tell the routine men what to do are very rare.

Maybe I'm a dream artist, as they call it.

One quality that a director needs to acquire in Hollywood is to understand the system and figure out how to work within the system to express one's own ideas.

Managers are the most creative people in the world.

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

The person who knows "how" will always have a job. The person who knows "why" will always be his boss

I know this: Jerry Jones is unique, he's as cool as James Bond and he has a command of his business. He can step into any arena and succeed.

The characteristics of successful business people, whether they are male or female, are very similar. It's about determination, it's about enthusiasm, it's about strategy, it's about communication, it's about integrity. And sometimes men and women display those differently but fundamentally they are the same qualities.

I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember.

While a lab Director can get done the things that he regards as important, he has the more important job of bringing out the best ideas of the broader scientific community.

My parents always pushed creativity on us, but they made it seem like the fun thing to do.

I've had a bit of experience at lots and lots of different arenas as it were, some of them completely creative, some of them quite technical. The interesting thing is, is that I found that the technical arenas actually are also very creative or can be very creative.

I think the job of leadership is to expand what can be talked about and to get consensus on the nature of the problem, and that is most of the job. Because once you do that, once you have diagnosis, treatment options are obvious.

There are people that go ahead, that see problems before the rest, that take decisions before the rest.

We allow people to be creative. We set a direction, we set the vision, we set the strategy, but within that framework, we allow our people to be as creative as they want to be.

I'm not a designer, I'm a creator.

Well, the first quality of being a good leader is you have to be able to follow. See, a good leader can't just be the leader all the time, I have to be able to follow.

The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.

You need to have extraordinary wisdom to be the forerunner.

Great CEOs are not just born with shiny hair and a tie.

I love the experience of getting to direct because I can have all of the fun of helping shape the show, but I don't have to actually do it, so I don't have to deal with the nerves.