Quotes About Leadership

It is not about gender, it is about experience, leadership, and vision.

I'm always asked about how women get on in the boardroom and my answer is always, 'Never acknowledge that you are a woman. Your gender is not the point.'

Leaders talk about gender equality but it is not seen during selection of candidates. They will talk about winnability and a woman candidate seldom fulfils the criteria unless she is from a political family.

I want to go where I can be of the most service to the general enterprise.

General consultant to mankind.

I would love to be a general manager just for the challenge.

I have to let the general manager do what makes the most sense, or I can't hold him accountable.

To be a general manager in the NHL, you need to be smart, tough and ruthless.

My football do-over is when I went to Seattle and had both jobs as coach and general manager.

And sometimes when you're a general manager for the first time, you're going to make some mistakes. The key is, did you learn from those mistakes?

I'm generally risk averse, and most great entrepreneurs I know are as well.

If you over-react to a crisis legislatively it generally ends in disaster.

I caddied for Dwight Eisenhower and Omar Bradley long before they became generals or president, for that matter. Just between you and me, Bradley tipped better than Eisenhower did.

To generate positive creative friction, you need people who'll tell you 'No.'

We can create opportunities to generate value by working across the entire breadth of Boeing.

We are the generation that brought the bomb in. We have got to be the generation that should take it out.

The generational change in our government should not give hope to the adversaries of the revolution. We are continuity, not a rupture.

I just want to give back and kind of be a resource for younger generations.

We know that the next several generations need a better world to live in, which can only be a post-Obama World.

We've flown the president since Eisenhower, and we're going to continue to fly the president for generations to come. This is something we're very proud of.

I don't want to see a president of the United States saying things which change the character of the generations of Americans that are following.

We will write a new page of history, one that is positive for this country, so future generations can be proud.

I'm not a genius. I need other people to get the perfect information. When we have this, we will decide to sign or sell a player.

I think the American system is incredibly well developed. I think the founding fathers were geniuses.