John Landgraf Quotes

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.

Don't be a bottleneck. If a matter is not a decision for the President or you, delegate it. Force responsibility down and out. Find problem areas, add structure and delegate. The pressure is to do the reverse. Resist it.

The leadership qualities that you have to have to be a producer on a film is something I learned being a captain on the team.

That's all managing is: just coming up with the right questions and getting the right answers.

Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank.

You need to have proper management if you're going to move forward.

Any Idiot can point out a problem .... A leader is willing to do something about it! Leaders solve problems!

My job is a decision-making job, and as a result, I make a lot of decisions.

The leader of a company needs to have a decision tree in his head - if this happens, we go this way, but if it winds up like that, then we go this other way.

A leader gets things done.

The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.

I think I'm a great organizer. Not that I'm organized, but I'm a great organizer of other people.

Problems are good, as long as you solve them quickly.

Governors have to balance budgets. And they have to make decisions. And they have to do things that sometimes aren't popular. And they also have to bring people together to try to solve problems.

In Washington, one man could do what ten of them do. Things kinder run themselves, anyhow.

A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.

I must have assistants who will solve their own problems and tell me later what they've done.

Good leadership is hard to measure on a daily basis which is why so many default to doing what's easy to measure instead.

In Washington, as we learned from the White House transcripts, a president may speak of kicking butts, call a problem a can of worms, decide not to be in the position of basically hunkering down, anticipate something hitting the fan, propose to tough it through, sight minefields down the road, see somebody playing hard ball, claim political savvy, and wonder what stroke some of his associates have with others.

When I hear a company is being run by a team, my heart sinks, because you need to have that leader with a vision and heart that can move things forward.

Management is clearly different from leadership. Leadership is primarily a high-powered, right-brain activity. It's more of an art it's based on a philosophy. You have to ask the ultimate questions of life when you're dealing with personal leadership issues.

No job is more vital to our society than that of the manager. It is the manager who determines whether our social institutions serve us well or whether they squander our talents and resources.

Directing is such alchemy, it's so easy to fail. And I've seen people who are great at their jobs because everybody has a go. Editors, DPs, actors, craft services guy, everybody wants to try it out but it is such a diffuse but necessary set of skills that you never know which one this person might lack.

Managers are never 100 percent in control. You're at the mercy of the players. When you're a player, you're driving. I'm the navigator. I hardly ever think about driving anymore, unless there's two out in the bottom of the ninth.

If Moses had operated through committees the Israelites never would have got across the Red Sea.