Chris Lilley Quotes

I don't like to talk too much about differences between managers.

Luckily, as a director I can just tell people what I need and I don't need to tell them how to get it.

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

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.

I think management is about just that - managing people via man-to-man skills.

I like being a leader in real life.

I can lead my team.

I've always tried to be a leader.

When you're at the lower levels in the organization, you need to win and be right. But as you move up, you need to let other people win and be right, and become a manager and delegate responsibility.

I'm a leader.

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

Leadership is influence.

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

You can lead a team in a lot of different ways. It can be talking to somebody who is down or, during the course of a game, looking to penetrate and then dropping the ball off to someone else for an easy bucket.

A good leader should focus on making sure everyone is being given the tools to do their job, not just expecting - poof! - that they're going to produce great work.

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.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

That's why I never became a director. I never had patience with people.

The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.

I've always been a leader. Every team I've played on, I've led my way.

The great irony of management is that the higher up you go, the less actual control you have. When you are but a humble coder, you make the computer do exactly what you want; when you're a manager, you only hope that people understand what you want, and then trust/pray that they do it both correctly and in a timely manner.

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

I like to make everything my friends are involved in a little better. I should have just become a manager.

If I have one skill as a manager, I can make things extremely clear.

You can't manage by memo. You can't stand up there and just send out edicts. I think you just gotta really personalize your relationships.