Marcus Aurelius Quotes

There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog, waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there.

One has to have the strength of character to say the time has come to move on... unless you are a king.

It doesn't affect my authority if I change my stance on something. If I have to reconsider a decision, I will.

Precedents are treated by powerful minds as fetters with which to bind down the weak, as reasons with which to mistify the moderately informed, and as reeds which they themselves fearlessly break through whenever new combinations and difficult emergencies demand their highest efforts.

While I'm leader, nothing will be off limits - there will not be one policy, one rule, one way of working which cannot be changed.

One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he's the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong.

Entrepreneurs have a great ability to create change, be flexible, build companies and cultivate the kind of work environment in which they want to work.

Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men.

Rulers come and go; governments end and forms of government change; but sovereignty survives.

Each age must … contend anew with the question of power and accountability.

A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.

The people are difficult to govern: It is because those in authority are too fond of action [change].

When you empower people you sign up for a life of uncertainty and change.

I started to fight with the men. I raised my voice, and they started listening to me.

Different times require different types of men.

Let nothing prevent you from changing your previous decision if after consideration you feel that the previous decision was incorrect.

A statesman gains little by the arbitrary exercise of ironclad authority upon all occasions that offer, for this wounds the just pride of his subordinates, and thus tends to undermine his strength. A little concession, now and then, where it can do no harm is the wiser policy

Leadership can change its mind; leadership can open its eye. Leadership can even be replaced.

I don't want the power. When a project is given to me, and I say yes, I'm gonna oblige everybody who has the power to try to make it work.

Leaders are not dogmatic. They are principled and know that change is never easy, but when it's necessary, they must lead.

If you're going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.

I like to think I would adapt to the way that any manager who came in would want to play.

AAP is like a start-up. You do roles you would have never imagined.

I've always said I would never say never when it comes to politics.

Sometimes I am the 'philosophical professor, or I can do the voice like thunder if necessary... or if I want to keep the lads on their toes I might sit back and give them a thousand-yard stare.