We made some mistakes. We had some managers we didn't like and had to get rid of, and that cost some money. Stuff like that. But overall, we did really well.

I didn't plan on rock-n-roll. I wanted to learn jazz; I got to know some people doing rock-n-roll with jazz, and I thought I could make some money playing music.

In The Doors we have both musicians and poets, and both know of each other's art, so we can effect a synthesis.

We made some mistakes. We had some managers we didn't like and had to get rid of, and that cost some money. Stuff like that. But overall, we did really well.

Most groups today aren't groups. In a true group all the members create the arrangements among themselves.

I really hate it when I see other bands selling their music to commercials.

When I play with my band around the U.S.A., the most requested song is 'Peace Frog.'

Good managers have a bias for action.

English football has just had a transfer window imposed for the first time, so it will be interesting to see how managers cope with the squads they have until it re-opens.

Of the 25 songs we've recorded there were 24 that we wanted to have on an album. That wouldn't have worked. So when one of our wise managers suggested the idea of considering two different album, it cleared the way for us.

Some studies show that women can be better money managers than men because they tend to be more conservative and do their homework. Men tend to take more risks without the research.

Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.

Oh, the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes.

Is puppy love the reason so many Americans are blind to the incompetence and waste of Republicans - who at a minimum are supposed to be good money managers - running Iraq reconstruction?

Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form.

He's one of those managers you'd give your left leg to play for.

The owners and managers were too stupid to realize we had brains.

I lost agents and managers because I turned down big movies that were smutty.

Managers, regardless of salary, should not be allowed to earn or use comp time. They are expected to work as many hours as needed to get the job done - especially at these salary levels.

I know a lot of people on the field - players, coaches, managers - are glad that I'm gone.

Millions have been taken from me. If you are not on top of it and you make a lot of money, and you trust business managers, then, yes, money will be taken from you.

Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.

We must have the time to create strict rules so that property is not sold by Communist managers for a low price. They often get payments under the table to sell to the first bidder. This does not build public support for a market economy.

These managers all know their onions and cut their cloth accordingly.

We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise.

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.

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.

Cameron was able to get an inside look at professional football from the standpoint of athletes and agents and general managers that few people have ever seen.

I make decisions based on my work, not based on meetings with my business managers, who I don't like to meet.

The way I was brought up by my parents and guided through my football life by the influences of various managers means that in some ways I am black and white.

I've never wanted to play bank managers and real people particularly.

What I find very interesting about the mutual funds managers is that here are people who are the new masters of the universe. They're managing billions, yet they're subject to this quiet daily tyranny of numbers.

The staff, stage managers, ushers all behaved as if they respected the actors.

My style is to keep folks in place who are good managers and want to win.

The most cowardly thing in the world is blaming mistakes upon the umpires. Too many managers strut around on the field trying to manage the umpires instead of their teams.

It's difficult working with very rich actors, because inevitably they become a little spoilt, and the managers and agents tend to control things more than is healthy.

Always be nice to bankers. Always be nice to pension fund managers. Always be nice to the media. In that order.

If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to rotate twenty times as fast, everyone else would get twice as much done since all the managers would fly off.

I was often misquoted. I was supportive of my managers, even though they all may not think so.

The Macintosh having shipped, his next agenda was to turn the rest of Apple into the Mac group. He had perceived the rest of Apple wasn't as creative or motivated as the Mac team, and what you need to take over the company are managers, not innovators or technical people.

We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.

All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.

Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.

Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.

Managers don't have as much leverage as they used to have. We can't really be the boss.

We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn't always possible for women to become doctors or managers or insurance people. Let them be armed with a true picture of the way we want it to be.

We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies.

Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds.

But we didn't have the financial structure, like the right attorneys, the right managers, the right accountants, and we were going against the grain of what black entertainers is supposed to do.