William Mapother Quotes

He who has great power should use it lightly.

Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.

Power without abuse loses its charm.

Certainly I shall not be one of those who, having gained power, do not wish to use it.

The fellow that has power is the one who uses it sparingly ... I had more power when I went into office than when I went out.

You may give give a man office, but you cannot give him discretion

The position of power and having to make decisions that you don't necessarily want to make is always good conflict and good drama.

When somebody promises to do something, you have to think about whether that's something that you would be willing to see happen because the powers are simply too vast.

Vadim was both my teacher and my husband. I placed myself entirely in his hands.

Power should be reserved for weightlifting and boats, and leadership really involves responsibility.

Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.

Gotta watch out for directors.

I'm very excited to see where the characters and their relationships go. But in the end, it really boils down to the people who have more power than me, who control the money.

He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

It is a universal and fundamental political principle that the power to protect can safely be confided only to those interested in protecting, or their responsible agents - a maxim not less true in private than in public affairs.

My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

The great irony of management is that the higher up you go, the less actual control you have. When you are but a humble coder, you make the computer do exactly what you want; when you're a manager, you only hope that people understand what you want, and then trust/pray that they do it both correctly and in a timely manner.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

To be honest, the fact that people trust you gives you a lot of power over people. Having another person's trust is more powerful than all other management techniques put together.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

So I still seized the power, but I felt that if I officially made myself the boss, in black and white, it would be too intimidating for the other producers and the other men who worked on the show. In other words, I had the power, but I gave them the title.

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.