From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English history must have taken a different turn, and that was William Pitt the elder.
No company should depend on one person no matter how that person is smart or genius, whether it's Apple or News Corp, or Citibank or any other company in the world.
I never thought of myself as the leader. The most important person, perhaps.
Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.
All the sudden, I was part of the 'No Man's Land' thing, and there was a bundle of core writers for that, but somewhere along the line, I became the go-to guy after that initial arc.
I'm very much in favor of focused responsibility, and so in the main areas that I'm worried about, I try to have a single person who is basically the key person in that area.
I'm a good beginning key.
Anyone who critically analyzes a business learns this: that the success or failure of an enterprise depends usually upon one man.
Roy was just another bureaucrat to me, but I realized very soon that without Roy this thing would have died.
One figure can sometimes add up to a lot.
We offer more than a program; we offer a man [Richard M. Nixon] to carry it out.
I heard of the word 'rainmaker.' It means one particular star who could make a company or project rich and successful. Someone that makes it rain with money. I thought it was a really good concept, so I took over that idea to become the rainmaker.
David is the show. There are other writers, but it's David's vision.
