Mike Phelan Quotes

I have an assistant who's very good at email, so I don't struggle with it.

I had a career for 25 years in Australia before I ever came to the United States.

Over the years, I've worked with just about everybody.

'Time' was a glorious place to work in the years that I was there, from 1959 to 1964.

I did some internships, worked on some campaigns, and then moved to D.C.

TNA has been extraordinary to me, nothing but professional.

I've always worked.

I've been an assistant to a folklorist and a teacher. There may or may not have been some sandwich-making at a certain sub chain in my past as well.

I started at an agency called Intertalent. You copy scripts, you pick up people's dry cleaning, you take their dogs to the vet, you deliver packages, you do whatever they want you to do.

We believe that two people who have worked together for more than 10 years and been in the company for more than 15 years would be able to work very well as a team.

George Perles at Michigan State was the first coach that gave me responsibility as far as being a coordinator. I learned a lot from that experience.

I got put into leadership roles very early in life from fifth grade, sixth grade. I always ended up being the quarterback or the leader of the sports teams, and it's kind of benefiting me now.

To be honest, more than what I prepare, it's the directors who do the bulk of the work, researching, collecting data and all that. I like to see myself as a processor: they feed me with the data, I give the output.

I was always very detail-oriented, and in the time I spent in different roles - the elected official, the campaign manager - I had a tendency to want to push the creation of the product and really work on the critical path that would get to product.

What makes us really, truly successful over the long term has a ton to do with our social interactions and the influence we do or don't have with other people.

You go and find work wherever it is, and you learn from it. No matter what the experience is, you can always file something away as knowledge.

I have stocked shelves, waited on tables, and bartended. I have been a salesperson at many levels. Each giving me a unique view of what made a company successful and, even more importantly, what made a company fail.

I've been doing stuff for ABC for a long time, since 2004. I've had several deals with them. Like, 'Life on Mars,' that was a large event for me in my career.

I had the privilege of working with so many great actors over the years.

My strengths, I think, are that I deal really well with people. I like people. I'm fascinated by how they work so I'm good at handling situations between departments on set or pre-production or post.

I have spent half of my career at Milan.

When you are young in this industry, it's difficult to know when to speak up.

U.P. is a big state. I don't have enough leadership experience for such a big state. I requested the party for two experienced associates to help me and work with me.

I enjoyed working at Fox. I met wonderful people who respected and mentored me. I learned a lot and made life-long friends. The network is an important part of our media landscape, and I want it to thrive.

I had a lot of different jobs.