Ted Turner Quotes

If you get good ratings, they'll cover you even if you have nothing to say.

Sacks shouldn't be the only thing that determines if you had a good year.

Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.

You need to tell people where they stand. If someone's done a good job, you should tell them they've done damn well. But if they haven't, you should take the same attitude.

Especially for fostering creative, conceptual work, the best way to use money as a motivator is to take the issue of money off the table so people concentrate on the work.

Many founders hire just because it seems like a cool thing to do, and people always ask how many employees you have.

Research indicates that employees have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company.

I do believe that at Microsoft in general good work is rewarded, and I have seen it many times here.

Once you stop thinking about the minutiae of what each part might mean for your career, you learn that if you do a good performance, it's going to be good for you. The work is what matters.

You always depend on what the owners think of the job you are doing.

Federal employees are not rewarded for performance or excellence or results but, rather, for showing up, and often times, they don't even do that.

The difference in being a good soldier and actor is that in the Air Force, you see results, and our worth is defined by numbers. As an actor, your results are based on other people's opinions.

Eventually, I'm going to be judged purely on my own merits.

Personal titles aren't something which motivate me.

You just hope each job is going to be as good as it possibly can be.

I don't tend to go into any job thinking about the audience reaction.

If you discover that a role isn't complex, you can speak to somebody about it and they'll help you push it when you're on set.

My job is to hire the best and brightest employees and empower them to do their best work. As a manager, I am not a mind reader nor an expert at every job function. Therefore, it is incumbent on all hires to feel empowered to tell me what resources they need to do their job.

Sometimes when I'm watching managers on television and I see all that anxiety I realise that I don't miss the job as much as I thought.

It is better to be compared with a very good coach than the other way.

At every club I have been at I have had a test in the first few weeks from the big players at the club. At that moment you define your success at that club, you either win the group or you lose the group.

At Manhattan GMAT, I had done my best to create a positive work environment and culture, and I further believed in rewarding people financially at or above the market rate for a job well done.

I work for the director, and if audience are happy, I have gotten my award. After that, I have to move on.

I think in coaching you just expect it to end at some point by being let go or by being fired. It's just kind of the nature of the business, so I've never really focused on that. I'm just trying to focus on doing the job as well as I can.

I got 'slotted' and started getting offers similar to the role I had in 'Maryada.'