Quotes About Leadership

Politicians and the government have become too interested in short-term gains. Of course, if you look at the direct financial returns in the short term, human space flight is expensive. But they need to look longer term.

We can't have a third Obama term, which is what electing Hillary Clinton would do.

I absolutely think that David Cameron should stay, whatever the result of the referendum, and I hope that he will stay for the full second term which he was elected to serve.

We are going to serve our full term; there will be no snap election, and we are going to do our best to ensure that 2016 is going to be a good economic year.

It's important to keep your long term perspective and communicate well both externally and internally.

Steward for the long term. It's not always easy, but you do it.

A lot of campaign lexicon is very militaristic - even the term 'campaign.'

You have to build businesses for longer term.

I can see both sides of term limits, and I think, in different positions, term limits make more sense than in some others.

We need term limits desperately in this country.

Term limits aren't enough. We need jail.

With big productions, you can sometimes get lost with the terminology and all the different departments.

That really makes you feel good when guys are using some of your terminology and some of your plays in a different country.

Most people have a very strong sense of organizational ownership, but I think what people have to own is an innovation agenda, and everything is shared in terms of the implementation.

See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome.

There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everybody go along to get along, but that's not going to be very helpful for us in the long run, in terms of solving our problems. And somebody has to be courageous enough to actually stand up to, you know, the bullies.

I was with the former president for over 54 years. I don't regret that; I feel very proud. It was necessary. It is history. Each step where we worked together was a privilege, and in terms of history, that was necessary.

We owe a lot when it comes to women in terms of innovation, in terms of education, in terms of progression in life.

In any merger, when you have large organisations coming together, there will be challenges in terms of culture.

The 22nd Amendment should probably be modified to say two consecutive terms instead of two terms for a lifetime.

The England captaincy job, after 50-odd games, has found out what kind of leader I am in terms of a person. It's made me feel far more confident in terms of talking to a group in any situation. But it has taken me a long time to feel like I've been doing it naturally.

I have been a professor, and I have been a policymaker, and as a professor, you think in terms of truth or absolutes.

I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.

I have climbed every step of the football ladder, from kicking a ball about in Munich's Olympic Park to becoming a junior at Bayern, signing professional terms, establishing myself in the first team and taking the captain's armband.