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"I was a window dresser for Burton's once. What really put me off was the area manager coming round and saying, Charles, I think you're a natch at this."
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"Great leaders understand the importance of assigning the right people to the right positions. If you put the wrong person in the wrong place, no matter how talented or earnest they are, they will never reach the peak of their potential. Their strengths will be underutilized and they may never measure up to your expectations. Reassign to get the best out of others and the situation."

"The masters and overseers were so good at employee development, in their absence, the employees still achieved the company's mission."

"Management: An art of handling conflicting Egos to meet a common objective, be it political, organisational or societal in nature."

"Leadership is relationship."

"All of those things had been talked about, suggested, rumored, as a manager and as a member of the Knicks organization, I couldn't allow myself to think that way or believe that."

"Successful people carefully manage their energy and associations, they are gatekeepers."

"You can be stern and forthright, and that's my management style, but when you lose it totally, that's a sign of weakness."

"Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented."

"It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them."

"A manager has his cards dealt to him and he must play them."
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"It's a question of keeping one's eyes and ears open and watching how other people play the game. They're watching me too, to see what my attitude is like."

"A handful of older, romantic leading men, like Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson, and Robert Redford are still landing parts."

"Your senses are reeling all the time. Finally you find something to write and the very next day you go out and see something else which totally contradicts what you've written and every conclusion you've come to."

"If I talk about Charles Dance I am talking about something else, something I operate and wind up and have to make an impression with and use to transmit someone else's screenplay."

"A car to pick me up every day, a chair with my name on it, everybody being very polite... what can you do except sit back and watch it all, try to take it all in?"
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