Quotes About Leadership

The biggest thing is bringing energy and leadership on both ends of the floor. The player I want to be, and know I can be, that caliber, does so.

I think one of my main things is I lead by example. I'm not going to be just talking, talking, talking and sitting on the side saying you have to do that or this. I'm going to be the first one over there in practice, diving on the floor, whatever it takes to really get it going.

When I get to Washington, the people of Florida are going to know I'm not going to spend my first year having fundraisers to pay off a campaign debt.

I'm going to make up my own mind as to what I think is in the best interest of our country and Florida.

I'm going to be the coach at Florida as long as they'll have me.

We follow the rules and some guys make some mistakes and we gotta correct those mistakes. We follow the rules and we do it the right way at Florida and we have to do a better job of correcting some of the people making mistakes.

My father was the Florida state director of The Nature Conservancy.

If you don't let people flourish in their jobs, why are they going to stay?

One of the early lessons that I learned in leadership is that it's the leader's job to always go against the flow.

I'm just going to continue to make good plays. Making the right decisions, good decisions with the ball so my team can play with a great flow.

The model a lot of companies use is a very pyramidal model which sort of designates that all creativity, all wisdom flows from the top. We think that's the absolute wrong model.

We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.

I like to work in a team. And for that you must have a structure that covers everything and that there is fluid communication.

If you look at the CEOs of some the most successful companies in the world like IKEA, they never fly first class. They always go economy.

I tell my employees that we're in the service business, and it's incidental that we fly airplanes.

I would rather not to have to fly across the country at all, but obviously, as a federal party leader, I do.

If I still had my legs, I would be in line for a battalion command, and instead, I'm flying a desk.

I never enjoyed being the star-man because as soon as you become the focal point of the team, you assume an extra burden of responsibility.

I am who I am, and I'm focused on that, and being a great CEO of Apple.

My brothers can be a little out of control sometimes and so somebody has to be able to keep them focused.

Apple is always focused on out-innovating itself... and that is something I am very proud to be a part of.

The focus to me was always just being the best that we can be. Just being trendsetters and only focusing on us.

There are a lot of folks who endorsed me that I would not want to see as president.

Take responsibility. Step up and step in. Because at the end of the day, folks, we are our behaviors.