Quotes About Leadership

It only matters how many wins you get, and we've got to figure out how to continue to get those wins.

I don't get happy with personal milestones. I get happy when my team wins.

The hardest thing about being a leader is demonstrating or showing vulnerability... When the leader demonstrates vulnerability and sensibility and brings people together, the team wins.

Everyone always says you have to be on the best team, the team that wins. Oh, no, no, no. I disagree with that.

The No. 1 stat is wins. As a quarterback, you get evaluated on winning.

I want to be in a place where they know I'm the best corner in the game and let me play and help the team get wins.

What else does a manager do but push buttons? He doesn't hit, he doesn't run, he doesn't throw, and he doesn't catch the ball. A manager has twenty-five players, or twenty-five buttons, and he selects which one he'll use, or push, that day. The manager who presses the right buttons most often is the one who wins the most games.

As we've always said, in politics the person with the biggest number wins.

We changed the University of Houston in 23 short months more than anybody thought was possible. Not just from a wins and losses standpoint but from an infrastructure standpoint as well.

Gerrard is passionate, and he leads from the front. At times, he has lifted Liverpool to great wins almost single-handedly.

I didn't really want to be the coach who wins but the coach who educates.

I'm not really a money man. I'd rather get the wins.

The team that gets off to a good start wins pennants.

It's rare when a president wins the campaign without winning independents.

Pushing for excellence is a fight. You have to fight to hire the right employees, fight to get the supplies you need, to move line items around. Being a great manager means pushing to get those few extra inches every day. It's almost like a football game - the team that wins sometimes wins by just inches.

Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.

No doubt, if you go through records, Dhoni is India's best captain to date. Beating Sourav Ganguly, he won the Tests, ODIs, and T20s, won both the World Cups. Nobody can deny that, but to give credit to a single person is not good; others should also get credit for winning the Cups.

What I teach our people is that, as a leader, you have four key roles apart from people management. First is to champion the grand vision. Two, install systems and a culture to run experiments. The third thing is to savour surprises. The fourth thing is that even a leader's ideas need to be subjected to tests.

It's not an issue for me if I captain England in 42 Tests or in 50. It's a question of what is best for the team in Test and one-day cricket.

I think there will be one overarching coach for Tests and one-day cricket. I think you need one person in control and in charge of that environment. Also it's important for people to know I am not going to be playing a tracksuited role. The execution of strategy is over to the captain and coach as it always has been.

I want to captain England in more Tests than anyone else.

What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.

Jim Hightower, Ann Richards - there are quite a few intelligent regular Texans.

Westerners know the difference between a talker and the real deal. If Rick Perry wasn't right to be governor of Texas, why should he be president?