Neil Jordan Quotes

Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

The most important thing for a director is being able to communicate.

Leadership is inspiring people. Management is keeping the trains running on time.

If the vision is not right and if the right group of players is not together, it doesn't come together.

To get things done, you have to get people together.

There's no way a director can communicate with every single person on the set and yet they need to motivate and instill an ambition to want to do their best work.

True leadership isn't about having an idea. It's about having an idea and recruiting other people to execute on this vision.

A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here's where we are going to go, here's why we need to go there, and here's how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor.

My definition of an executive's job is brief and to the point. It is simply this: Getting things done through other people.

I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it won't be successful.

Fundamentally, what you're trying to do when you're directing is get a group of people who most likely have never met, unify them, and make sure that we're all clear on what we're marching towards.

For every manager, it is important to explain your ideas. It's very important the club understand those ideas and are ready to work together.

Good direction is often based on the ability to communicate.

The Leader will be a person with the management skills to coordinate the activities of the Team, and to assure that the Team remains faithful to the objectives of the incoming President.

To me, leadership is about encouraging people. It's about stimulating them. It's about enabling them to achieve what they can achieve - and to do that with a purpose.

If the right people do the right things, we can walk, we can have a future. But if people don't put time into it to make it run in a right way, I don't think your team will work.

Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.

Leadership is an active role; 'lead' is a verb. But the leader who tries to do it all is headed for burnout, and in a powerful hurry.

I feel that a great coach is one that has a vision, sets a plan in place, has the right people in place to execute that plan and then accepts the responsibility if that plan is not carried out.

Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.

Even in an organization that's doing something big and bold, there's the mundane, day-to-day execution work of keeping it going. But people need to stay connected to the boldness, to the vision, and stay plugged in to the main vein of the dream.

Great leaders help their people see how they can directly impact the company's objectives and their own personal goals.

Turnaround or growth, it's getting your people focused on the goal that is still the job of leadership.

I never thought being the producer was being the dictator. It means being the director and being the coach. It's a way of keeping everybody focused on the goal, and also having final say. Everybody can be in the same car, but somebody has to drive.

Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.