Jim Boeheim Quotes

When men organize themselves into groups, and they make rules based on common or self-interest, it's always tangled and political.

GM will do what's best for GM, and Delphi should do what's good for them.

I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests.

Fortunately we're not a public company - we're a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.

Never sit at a table you can't walk away from.

Whenever I do a deal I always have the right of approval.

It’s going to take some give and take from the House Judiciary Chairman who doesn’t like to give and only likes to take.

Politics is who gets what, when, how.

People may oppose you, but when they realize you can hurt them, they'll join your side.

I'm not sure what the UFC's agenda is when it comes to me. It's their show, their press. They can change to whatever they want to do at any point. They own this thing. They can do whatever they want.

In no form of government is there an absolute identity of interest between the people and their rulers

We gradually become aware that we live in an environment where there is constant tension between authority and freedom.

We make all the decisions on our records... We have complete veto power.

I am a salesman, I am an executive, I look at budgets, I think about power politics, but then I am also a creative person.

The only way I was going to come back to the Disney Channel was if I was in a position of more power.

The beauty and riddle in studying the motives of any politician is in trying to decide what is idealism and what is self-interest, and often we are left to conclude that the answer is a mixture of the two.

I do not decide who plays.

There's certain circumstances, there's certain situations, there's certain decisions that have to be made based upon the business and you can't take that personal.

I love having the control over the end result and not having to go through some committee to get something approved. I feel sorry for people, like actors, because unless you're Woody Allen or Mel Gibson, they don't have much say in the decisions that affect their work.

Corporations, like nations, do not have friends. They have interests.

If I was to become a manager, I would not want someone else to be signing the players for the team that my job depended on.

All decisions at the Garden I make on my own.

The label does what's good for the label. Always.

It's not everybody that can handle firing Denzel Washington or coming to blows and saying, 'This is what's happening because I said so.' Usually, it's the reverse.

Too many members of the U.N. benefit from the status quo and won't make decisions for purely altruistic reasons.