Karren Brady Quotes

General Petraeus is not a miracle worker. He can not be successful unless the president creates greater confidence within his own team about the decisions which the president has himself made.

I would only ever be involved in a reality show that was about real life and had lots of action.

Then again, they're not scripted and I feel it's virtually impossible to be anything but yourself when you're in front of the cameras and cooking so there is a measure of truth in what you see.

As all entrepreneurs know, you live and die by your ability to prioritize. You must focus on the most important, mission-critical tasks each day and night, and then share, delegate, delay or skip the rest.

I've never been on one of these shows where you have to make alliances and be a team player.

I like to study the question or the problem or the opportunity in hand, work with the team to come with the right answer, make a decision, and act upon it. Some people have said that, actually, today they pretty much like their bankers dull.

A spontaneous interview feels differently than anything else you see on television.

A lot of what I do is running businesses rather than buying stocks. My worst decision is probably when I know I have the wrong chief executive running the business, and I keep on waiting to make the difficult decision of replacing him.

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.

But the best teams I've encountered have one important thing in common: their team structure and processes cover a full range of distinct competencies necessary for success.

Successful organizations, including the Military, have learned that the higher the risk, the more necessary it is to engage everyone's commitment and intelligence.

I’ve worked as a leader for many years and I’ve always trained myself to be prepared for the worst.

Our managers need to have a strong integration of managerial skills and technical understanding. One cannot substitute for the other.

Dad was an outstanding leader. He'd bring in top thinkers from a wide array of fields - how to fix the Detroit schools, for example. I watched him in these meetings. He listened and probed.

I think that the larger and more complex the business gets, I have to listen twice as much as I speak.

'The Amazing Race' has always been the gold standard of reality television to me. It's smart, it's funny, and it's entertaining as hell.

When you are the manager, you want to win.

The most important thing is that you can make tough decisions, discipline people when you need to, but also create a spirit to get the ultimate thing you're aiming for, which is winning enough games.

Analysis of opponents is something I like doing.

I like 'The Apprentice.' I think it's a cool show to watch.

'Bigg Boss' is one reality show which is a completely different format and pulls you out of your comfort zone.

Celebrity Apprentice' was something where you don't know what you're going to do the next day. Every two days, somebody goes home, and you don't know if the next day you've got to be the project manager or what's going to happen, so you can't really prepare. You really have to be on top of everything.

That is what a good manager does - you study and think and discuss, and you come up with a model of playing.

As a manager you're going to put out the player you think is going to best help you win the game.

Being a Navy SEAL and sniper taught me all about risk management. Take away all the risk variables under your control and reduce it to an acceptable level. The same fundamentals apply in business.