Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.

Millions have been taken from me. If you are not on top of it and you make a lot of money and you trust business managers then yes money will be taken from you.

The Macau casinos have a wonderful business it's taking in money from Chinese businessmen elsewhere who send it through junky companies to casinos to gamble. The growth continues and they have basically western managers and western accounting so we trust the numbers a little bit more.

I'm not a defender of old or new football managers. I believe in good ones and bad ones those that achieve success and those that don't.

Managers have very tough jobs. I always respected their job but demanded respect in return.

Oh the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes.

I'm just happy to be a film where for once I don't have to worry about my hair because my managers are always complaining about my hair looking depressing in my movies. Which is true. I mean it's true.

We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn't always possible for women to become doctors or managers or insurance people. Let them be armed with a true picture of the way we want it to be.

Our managers hadn't had that kind of success - the record company hadn't we hadn't - and the feeling was that the next record had to be even bigger and if it wasn't it would be some kind of failure.

Stop being conned by the old mantra that says 'Leaders are cool managers are dweebs.' Instead follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too!