Douglas Costa Quotes

If I look myself as a manager, I have lot more to learn.

My biggest thing is, I'm learning what it's like to carry myself in a personal way and also a professional way: how I can be a leader and do multitasking.

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.

Rotary provides training at all levels so that those who have been selected for leadership positions have the opportunity to learn and apply leadership principles to their jobs.

I learned hard lessons, and I've taken that lesson and it's helped me become a better business person and a better leader.

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

At the international level, one has to keep working hard and develop new skills. International cricket is all about improving yourself.

I think everybody has a moment in their career where you have to test whether it was right or wrong. We've all been there. I've looked back at performances of my own, where only you know if it is something you want to repeat. As long as you know when it's not right that you don't repeat it all the time.

I must say, I am a 10,000-times better director because I am in therapy. I'm serious. I can understand more the actors. I can manipulate them more easily.

I did an internship with Mike (Shanahan) and the Redskins last summer and I knew after a week and a half that it wasn't for me. I think I knew that going in, but I wanted to make sure.

I’m an executive now. I have to be a bigger leader, more responsible leader, more careful about how I say things….

Throughout my career, I've been someone who's led... and solved problems we had.

Through process and preparation and going through all of the interviews, I've learned a lot about myself and my skills.

You're well-spoken, or you're very analytical, or you're a great team-builder, or you're great with relationships... Playing to your strengths is always something good to build on because you're trying to develop a foundation to keep growing, as a professional and as a leader.

Every manager can improve.

As you progress in your career, your character progresses and evolves.

My father and I talked every day. He coached me on how to cold-call companies I wanted in our portfolio, how to network at public events, to cultivate senior journalists at important outlets, and how to run a profitable P&L. But, more or less, he allowed me to make my own mistakes.

I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.

Over the years I think I have developed a better understanding of being a goalkeeper - and I mean on and off the pitch. I mean how to deal with certain situations, how to prepare myself for games, how to read the game. I think I needed to leave Arsenal to do that.

If you're going to be a professional you continue to grow.

You get better at the thing you do by having to explain it to someone else. That, I think, totally makes my work stronger.

I needed to focus on what is good for my career long-term and when you decide to do something - you stay true to yourself.

I think when you have kids, it definitely makes you look at things from a different perspective, but I think that the biggest thing it's done is it's made me look at things from a different perspective from a professional standpoint in how you analyze things and how you look at things and how you react to things.

At a certain career level, it's no longer about whether you are the smartest subject-matter expert in the room.

I'm someone who takes on information quite well, so there's maybe a path into management. But I see what successful managers have to go through to get to that level - it's a completely different ball game - so I think I'll cross that bridge when I get there.