John Catsimatidis Quotes

People don't do what you expect but what you inspect.

There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.

What gets measured, gets done.

If I'm paying people, and they're not handling my business right, I have to check them. 'Cause sometimes you're nice, and people don't jump on what they're supposed to do, but if you go in there screaming at everybody - 'Look, why aren't my posters up?' or 'Why wasn't my single out on this day?' - then they jump right on it.

DoMode' is get out here and do your job and do work.

The sooner you learn to finish things, and as a matter of course finish your creative endeavors, the better. It took me a long time to learn that.

I'm terrible with my workout regime and following it strictly. I'm terrible with a healthy diet and following it strictly. I'm terrible on the weekends about getting up at reasonable hours and all of those things. But, when it comes to my work and the discipline it takes to get to work on time - I hate unprofessionalism.

Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.'

When I first went to work... I had over me an impetuous, hustling man. It was necessary for me to be up to the top notch to give satisfaction. I worked faster than I otherwise would have done, and to him I attribute the impetus that I acquired.

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.

I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.

Having deadlines helps because people are constantly breathing down my neck, and tapping their toes waiting for pages. So I just have to work nine to five. If I didn't have deadlines then I might be more of a golden hour kind of guy, writing from eight to noon and calling it a day, but that's just not the way I work right now.

Now, when it's time to get down to business, I get down to business.

If you are having fun on the set, you are not getting things done.

The whistle is always waiting to be blown, and in some ways, it gets me to do better work.

You always hear about delegation, but people make the mistake of delegating and not following up. I give authority, but I stay in touch. Otherwise it doesn't work.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

I have a strong work ethic.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Great leaders state out loud what they intend to do and in doing so, they get things done.

I always got my work done before playing.

I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time.

Fire people who are not workaholics.

I'm a person who believes in close monitoring and knowing what everyone on the staff is doing.

I have a good work ethic.