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"It's not just buying the company. Sure, we picked the right companies, and we picked the right management and, most importantly, we've given them the right incentive to perform."
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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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"If we can just take a few companies, and use those as models, as examples, to show the rest of corporate America how they can become more competitive, that's what I'd like to do and that's what I hope to do."
"It's one of the most important things at the end of the day, being able to say no to an investment."
"I want people who will stand up to me. People who are not afraid to say exactly what's on their minds, even though that's probably not what I want to hear. That's what I want."
"If you build that foundation, both the moral and the ethical foundation, as well as the business foundation, and the experience foundation, then the building won't crumble."
"If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing."
"I love the ability to work with very good managers, and to provide the right incentives for them, and truly become a partner with that management, and make that management take a long view."
"One, I love the creativity. I love the ability to create a capital structure that is appropriate for a company, no matter what field it happens to be in."
"The trouble, in my opinion, with corporate America today, is that everything is thought of in quarters."
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