Quotes About Leadership

But in this Congress, accountability is just a catch phrase, usually directed elsewhere. Demands to personal responsibility or corporate accountability abound, but rarely congressional accountability or fiscal responsibility.

Presidents often disappoint, but first ladies rarely do.

As a company grows from 25 to 50 to 100 to 200 to 500 to 1000 people, the characteristics of who is the very best talent in leadership roles will change. It's rarely the case that your leadership team at 1000 people is the same leadership team you had a 25 people.

Politicos talk a big game about bringing jobs to devastated cities like Detroit, but rarely succeed.

A great idea can't succeed without a great operator. But rarely can a great operator squeak by with a bad idea. So, as pithy as it sounds to say 'It's all about the people,' I only invest when I think I have found the right team for the right business.

Quite often, people who build big businesses don't believe anyone else can run them, and you end up with an old rascal in their 70s and no one to take them on. I could name several - and I won't - who put themselves in that invidious position.

It isn't that I was born thinking I had to be president. I'm getting a lot of encouragement to run from people across the country. I don't believe this is a rash decision.

As a woman leader, I thought I brought a different kind of leadership. I was interested in women's issues, in bringing down the population growth rate... as a woman, I entered politics with an additional dimension - that of a mother.

I think it's natural for any manager to want to grow his business. The question is at what rate, and in what direction, and in what format?

My work with Combate Americas, in particular, has been incredible because the company keeps growing at an incredible rate.

It is not for me but for the people to rate the central government.

The reason why we have 19 percent women in places like Congress is because we don't run at the same rate as men. And I think one of the things we're starting to realize is we have to step into the arena.

It's not my job to rate managers. My focus is on me and my team.

The Center for American Progress rates Maryland as the best state in the nation for women. I couldn't agree more.

I've been president of Brown and chancellor of Vanderbilt, where they have very high completion rates.

The corruption doesn't cease, the crime rates don't come down, no matter which party comes to power.

Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.

I'd rather be the king of kids, than the prince of fools.

Bill Clinton left office with a more than 60% approval rating.

When I ran the first time in 2001, they called me 'The Latino Mayor.' By the time I left in 2013, with a 58 percent approval rating, half the people liked me, half the people didn't. I was everybody's mayor. There was never any criticism that I was just for one group.

Truman has become the patron saint of failed presidents because he left office with a 27 percent approval rating, and people were saying, 'To err is Truman,' yet look at what he did: the Marshall Plan, the creation of NATO, the Truman Doctrine.

Approval ratings matter for politicians, largely for good reason. A leader with plummeting approval ratings ought to take note of the needs and hopes of his people.

I am not interested in ratings by Freedom House or whatever.

She's leaving when the president has one of the highest approval ratings on record. From here, it can only go down. And when it does, you know who they're going to blame. They're gonna blame Andy Card!