Rick Bragg Quotes

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.

Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.

Once we get them in the studio, you interview a person the same way you would interview another. You ask them a question. You let them answer. You try to listen closely and then ask a follow-up.

I don't talk a lot when I interview. My job is to get out of the way.

You've gotta understand - when you interview someone, it's not an interrogation. It's not the Nuremberg Trials.

In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.

I'm going from doing all of the work to having to delegate the work - which is almost harder for me than doing the work myself. I'm a lousy delegator, but I'm learning.

I like doing interviews. I really do.

I think the long interview has an important life.

I have nothing against interviews. I don't pursue them. When people I work for deem it appropriate, I'm perfectly willing to serve.

It is harder to lie in an interview. A good interview - and it can be polite - is not a one way street like a candidate controlled ad. An interview is not programmed by the candidate and so the candidate can't be exactly sure what will be asked.

I have a hard time with interviews, because I'd rather hear about the interviewer.

Rather than the President telling someone to do something, I'll tell the guy. If he wants to find out something from somebody, I'll do it.

Don't be the schmuck on the other side of the table. Don't get an interview with the guy. Be in the room with him while he's being interviewed by someone else.

I love taking time with an interview. Time with an artist relaxes them; it makes them want to be there and answer all your questions.

I'm not a good interviewer.

Because I come from the place of interviewing, I know how to answer a question giving you what you need to hear and not a minute more.

I have spent a long time being asked questions in interviews, so I've experienced it on the other side but I'm really not afraid to ask any question myself.

I never do formal interviews. I don't use a tape recorder. I take notes but occasionally.

Your instinct when someone is busy is to give them the least amount of work so that they can do it.

As captain you're involved immensely. You get worked up, you get carried away. It slowly dies down once you're a player. You realise you've to take the back seat.

A lot of times, going into the interview, you have an idea of maybe what you want to talk about. And the people you are interviewing have an idea of what they want to talk about.

The best way to handle responsibility is to break it down into smaller parts. Take care of one small thing at a time.

Interviewing is tough, especially if you don't know what you're looking for.

We accomplish all that we do through delegation - either to time or to other people.