Quotes About Leadership

It's a special thing to be a public company.

I wanted a CFO with public company experience; I needed an HR department, new office space, and a board which could help me grow the business. Insight, the private equity firm I chose, helped me with all that.

Being a public company certainly doesn't stop you from taking a really long-term time horizon, but it does make it more difficult.

I challenge the leaders of public education to stop issuing mandates from the state office and to focus on empowering schools and delivering resources to the school level.

Anyone that chooses to be an actor or politician is making a choice to lead their life in the public eye.

The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.

Hillary Clinton's progress as a public figure and politician can, in fact, be indexed perfectly by her relationship to Henry Kissinger.

I want people to see me as the entrepreneur, the boss, the public figure, the person who motivates.

I'm a public figure. It's up to me to take the initiative to explain things. It's my responsibility.

I think it's pretty clear when you make a choice that's against all public health information and data out there, that it's not based on what is in the interests of the people you are governing. It is perhaps in the interest of your own politics.

Improvements in global public health must begin locally, and must be driven by leaders who will learn the hard lessons from COVID-19.

Ben Carson was appointed to be the HUD secretary. He knows nothing about the mission of HUD. He doesn't care about people in public housing. He believes that if you are poor, it is your own fault. And he doesn't know the difference between an immigrant and a slave.

There's no doubt that usually a president's public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.

TDP is always very assertive for public interest.

I just want people to know that whatever decisions are made on any issue, I'll make them according to what I believe is in the public interest and my own conscience.

Every day, no matter how tired my father was, he'd put me in the car and drive me to Schaumburg Public Library, and he'd read to me from books about Dr. King, Mahatma Gandhi, Eleanor Roosevelt.

There's no other job in public life that is like chairman of the Fed.

Politics and public life are not for the faint of heart. It has been and always will be a noisy and cantankerous place.

You don't know how long you have in public life... I want to make the best of it while I've got the role.

Negative personal attacks have no place in public life and serve to erode public confidence in our basic institutions of government.

Many people in public life are not good campaigners.

I am a big fan of seeing more women in public life.

I've been in public life for long enough that I know you just have to live your life normally.

On the whole, my disposition is to say yes, unless I've got good reason to say no, and I think that's being in public life.