Quotes About Leadership

The key to success for everything in business, science and technology is never to follow the others.

If you don't have a strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy.

You can overcome wrong technology. Your people have the initiative, they see the problem, no big deal ... you can't overcome bad culture. You've gotta change whoever is in charge.

In this era of world leadership, the metal detector is the altar and the minicam may be god.

Pixar is the most technically advanced creative company; Apple is the most creatively advanced technical company.

If you're in command, it's always your fault.

It's frightening to think that you might not know something, but more frightening to think that, by and large, the world is run by people who have faith that they know exactly what is going on.

Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is allowed.

A good government had to guide its people, sometimes gently, sometimes strictly, just as parents did. It could allow certain freedoms, but in a style that suited the country.

I learned about opening moves and why it's important to control the center early on; the shortest distance between two points is straight down the middle.

Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.

I had been hired to prepare the mountain for the people instead of the other way around.

as had been the situation on other commercial expeditions, I had been hired to prepare the mountain for the people instead of the other way around.

Sitting with Ricki [Abrams], talking with Ricki, I made a vow to her: that I would use everything I knew, including from prostitution, to make the women`s movement stronger and better; that I`d give my life to the movement and for the movement. I promised to honour-bound to the well-being of women, to do anything necessary for that well-being. I promised to live and to die if need be for women. I made that vow some thirty years ago, and I have not betrayed it yet.

North Korean rulers do what they are doing not because they are "evil" or driven by some delusionary ideologies, but rather

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all credit for doing it.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.

El secreto de mi éxito fue rodearme de personas mejores que yo.

CEO Harry Stonecipher

Have you noticed how some project teams are efficient, with everyone knowing what to do and contributing fully, while the members of other teams are constantly bickering and don't seem able to get out of each other's way? Often this is an orthogonality issue. When teams are organized with lots of overlap, members are confused about responsibilities. Every change needs a meeting of the entire team, because any one of them might be affected.

As a programmer, you are part listener, part advisor, part interpreter, and part dictator.

We frequently hear software development leaders tell their staff, "We should operate like Netflix" (or one of these other leading companies). Of course you could do that. First, get yourself a few hundred thousand servers and tens of millions of users...

People find it easier to join an ongoing success. Show them a glimpse of the future and you'll get them to rally around.

At Group L, Stoffel oversees six first-rate programmers, a managerial challenge roughly comparable to herding cats. • The Washington Post Magazine, June 9, 1985 So