Victor Chernomyrdin Quotes

Every manager must be prepared to face every situation.

You need to carry out very careful pre-feasibility and feasibility studies before you enter any crisis situation.

Early in my career, I sometimes found it difficult to make the tough people decisions - I had to learn that. In business, you want to listen. You want to learn. You want to make sure you're not proceeding without information. But if you wait too long, you can actually hurt an organization even more.

Twenty-eight years in business and you understand the importance of problem solving and the importance of efficiency, because if you don't become efficient, you don't run a business well, and you are out of business. And I think some of those principles could be applied to leadership in Washington.

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

The military has to think in terms of worst case scenarios. In a sense, they have to play the pessimist.

When you're a leader at any level of any scale, leaders are defined at times of crisis.

There is a lot to managing, and with almost four years under my belt, I believe I'm ready.

As a manager you're going to have some bad times, some really bad times. If you're going to walk away, then in my view you do not have the make-up to be a manager or a leader of men.

As CEO, I believe my most important job is to both define reality and inspire hope for the PayPal team. Defining reality includes being realistic about all the things that could go wrong so that we are prepared to navigate those challenges.

That's the art of leadership. To make sure that what shouldn't happen, doesn't happen.

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.

Too many managers manage by what the postgame press conference is going to be.

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

Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.

As leader of the effort of the Iraqi Survey Group, I spent most of my days not out in the field leading inspections. It's typically what you do at that level. I was trying to motivate, direct, find strategies.

Rotary provides training at all levels so that those who have been selected for leadership positions have the opportunity to learn and apply leadership principles to their jobs.

I describe management as arts, crafts and science. It is a practice that draws on arts, craft and science and there is a lot of craft - meaning experience - there is a certain amount of craft meaning insight, creativity and vision, and there is the use of science, technique or analysis.

A wartime C.E.O. may not delegate. They make every decision based on the next product release. They may use a lot of profanity.

If I look myself as a manager, I have lot more to learn.

Managers are important: they are leading the company and guiding and have to provide vision and manage the daily business.

A CEO needs to build their own team.

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

Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.

Had Rumsfeld said at any time 'get me a report on what's going on', he could have had it. You're right, it depends on choices that we make, which parts of the world we want to be in immediate contact with.