Ottmar Hitzfeld Quotes

Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term.

In order to have your short term policies accepted, you have to have your long term policies understood.

As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term.

It’s quite difficult to find the time for strategic thought.

One of the things you get caught up as a coach is thinking short-term.

If I focus on the short-term goals, then the long-term goals are going to be in my favor.

If the short-term decisions you make damage the long term, you should resist those. But there are many short-term decisions that you need to make to be a successful manager.

The greatest thing about a coaching position is this: You just worry about the day in front of you.

You always need enough results to buy you time to do things over a longer period of time.

Everybody overestimates what you can do in a day and underestimates what you can do in months of work.

I must first be sure of the type of football that I want played in the long term. It's up to me to build this identity.

I want to take a long-term view. Being distracted by short term things can be dangerous when you are making cold, calm, long-term decisions.

As a head coach you need a strong leadership group behind you and that is exactly what we have with Stuart Webber and our board, we know exactly what direction we want to head and what is possible.

The biggest thing as a head coach, you want to make sure you exhaust every option.

I used to spend my time more on process than strategy. Now, I prioritize my time around strategy, people, and process.

After every major tournament or challenge, I'll always sit down and say 'how does the future look? How does the next six months, year, four years look?'

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success

A clever man should handle his interests so that each will fall in suitable order of their value.

I love the values football can teach. It gives young people a sense of how to defer present gratification for future success, it teaches self-discipline, it teaches teamwork, it gives them a bonding experience that can be hard to find somewhere else, it teaches the ability to process large amounts of information and apply it in real time.

What's important now? - To evaluate the past, focus on the future, and tell you what you have to do in the present

Men who think in lifetimes are of little use to statesmanship.

We cannot accomplish as much as we think we can in one day and we can accomplish more than we think we can in a year. Isn't that true?

I think the biggest single thing that causes difficulty in the business world is the short-term view. We become obsessed with it. But it forces bad decisions.

Long-term planning is often undervalued by our indefinite short-term world.

If you don't have a plan, days turn into weeks, weeks turn into months, months turn into years, and before you know it you're looking back saying, I should've had a plan.