Quotes About Leadership

One of the joys of working with boys is that you get your pay as you go along. You can observe the results of your leadership daily... Such satisfaction cannot be purchased at any price; it must be earned.

'Lead with LUV' is the first book I've ever done that's just a pure conversation between my coauthor and me.

Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective, and to be effective you often have to be ruthless and not bound by ideology or the same morals that we pretend to hold ourselves to.

It's really hard to compete with Apple on pure coolness, and if you do, you're probably going to use some of the things they pioneered.

In the end, as a manager or coach, you have to keep your heart pure and do your best as a manager or a coach.

Politics is a pure meritocracy. That's why Gordon Brown's cabinet had two brothers and a married couple in it. They just happened to be the best people around.

When a club legend becomes your manager, he automatically gets the attention of the players, purely because he had been there and done that.

A deck of cards is built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it, a lackey to those above it.

I did say that in-group, authority and purity are necessary for the maintenance of order, but I would never give them a blanket endorsement.

I am my own man. I governed as a conservative, and I govern effectively. And the net effect was, during my eight years, 1.3 million jobs were created. We left the state better off because I applied conservative principles in a purple state the right way, and people rose up.

I think if you're president, color goes away completely: you're president and it doesn't matter if you're white, green or purple.

Andrew Strauss captained me through my purple patch.

I think a black man, purple man, Martian man can run the country... as long as he does right by the people.

For a firm to be exceptional, it has to be led by purpose. Our purpose is to make an impact that matters.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Chick-fil-A is what it is today because of its people, purpose and product.

The purpose of a politician is to be a leader. A politician has to lead. Otherwise he's just a follower.

The Democrats have prevailed because, at heart, we have embodied a great idea, which is that an elected government can be the instrument of the common purpose of a free people; that government can embrace great causes and do great things.

If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians.

The public needs to know that any Government has a sense of purpose.

Think about all the great leaders. Think about Obama. Think about Clinton. Think about Nelson Mandela. Think about all the people that we know who are very successful in business, in politics and religion. What are they? They tell purposeful stories. They move people to action by aiming at the heart.

We should draw deep into Madiba's wisdom. We should draw deep into Madiba's style of doing things in an orderly manner, in a purposeful manner, in a way where we focus.

The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.

I know that I often take risks, but it is always for the purposes of the team.