Rocky Carroll Quotes

When you're the director, you kinda do all the work.

I don't think I know enough about acting to direct. You need to be a slight megalomaniac, not where you want to take over the world, but where you want to make every single decision and the buck stops with you. It's an awful lot of stress.

Directors never give you anything.

A director makes 100 decisions an hour. Students ask me how you know how to make the right decision, and I say to them, 'If you don't know how to make the right decision, you're not a director.'

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.

When you're the CEO, you take responsibility.

It's not everybody that can handle firing Denzel Washington or coming to blows and saying, 'This is what's happening because I said so.' Usually, it's the reverse.

The Leader will be a person with the management skills to coordinate the activities of the Team, and to assure that the Team remains faithful to the objectives of the incoming President.

I like working as a director most.

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

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.

If I'm a leader, I have a mission.

I want to deploy the leadership to meet the challenges that face us and to restore America's greatness.

The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive.

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

Clearly, every company needs a leader. That's an important part of being the CEO of the company.

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.

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.

My feeling is if you're going to be a leader, you have to carefully assess where people are and where people want to go.

In my opinion, the most important thing in governance is management control.

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

One mediocre general is better than two good ones.

I micromanage the selection of the cabinet.

[Describing her role:] It's like running a big corporation and a little country at the same time.