Ray Harryhausen Quotes

I think management is about just that - managing people via man-to-man skills.

A good director has to be a captain - he has to work with a lot of people every day.

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

Well, the first quality of being a good leader is you have to be able to follow. See, a good leader can't just be the leader all the time, I have to be able to follow.

There's no way a director can communicate with every single person on the set and yet they need to motivate and instill an ambition to want to do their best work.

I like being a leader in real life.

I'm not really a management-type person. It doesn't suit my personality to be bossing people around.

In running Wilson Sonsini, it's all people-to-people skills. Those people-to-people skills translate into diplomatic skills.

If I have one skill as a manager, I can make things extremely clear.

You can't manage by memo. You can't stand up there and just send out edicts. I think you just gotta really personalize your relationships.

Leadership is an individual sport, one that has to be fine-tuned to each of the people that reports to you. Leaders also need to provide the direction, energy, encouragement and inspiration for each person who reports directly to the leader as well as for the overall organization.

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

I can lead my team.

I've always tried to be a leader.

When you're at the lower levels in the organization, you need to win and be right. But as you move up, you need to let other people win and be right, and become a manager and delegate responsibility.

Good direction is often based on the ability to communicate.

I'm a leader.

Luckily, as a director I can just tell people what I need and I don't need to tell them how to get it.

I'm very much a leader in a lot of the work that I do or that I've done in my career.

To get things done, you have to get people together.

Most management systems have to do with establishing trust and getting people to cooperate. They're not really about expertise or science.

Every film you work on is different, and that's part of what it's like for anybody who works on a film, is to learn how to work with others. Learn from top to bottom. Actors have to learn how to work with the director and the director has to learn how to work with actors, and that's not just those two departments.

Leadership is influence.

You can lead a team in a lot of different ways. It can be talking to somebody who is down or, during the course of a game, looking to penetrate and then dropping the ball off to someone else for an easy bucket.

A good leader should focus on making sure everyone is being given the tools to do their job, not just expecting - poof! - that they're going to produce great work.