Quotes About Leadership

In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings.

I don't aspire to have high approval ratings. I aspire, in light of my two predecessors, to be the most honest governor I can be. I'd rather focus on honesty than popularity.

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about the ratings of Congress. I really don't.

I like to be at the top of the ratings.

For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.

A lot of coaches could ration out their time. They could delegate. They would make time for their family. But when I was coaching I would almost laugh at those guys. I knew we were working the extra hours to get an edge on them.

Kim Jong-un is not a rational person.

We would like the rest of the world to look up to American democracy. So when there is this kind of folly taking place, it makes it difficult for other rational nations to look up to American democracy.

My job is making irrational people do rational things.

I was a choir director for my high school. Of my friends, I was the more rational one, because I was the choir girl!

I believe there are two types of business people - risky and rational.

It is rational Republicans who want to pull the plug on the Trump presidency.

It's hard for anyone or any situation to rattle me, as a quarterback and a person.

My own view would be to let Saddam bluster, let him rant and rave all he wants. As long as he behaves himself within his own borders, we should not be addressing any attack or resources against him.

Raven's always trying to do the best she can for the group. Aside from the couple of mistakes she's made, she's always been a protagonist.

'Raw' wants to be the better brand; 'SmackDown' wants to be the better brand. A bunch of alphas on both brands.

The goal is become the top person on 'Raw,' the example on 'Raw,' the John Cena, the ultimate workhorse of 'Raw.'

Ray Santos is one of my personal heroes. I model my life on people like him.

When you come off a losing season - one of the worst seasons in all of basketball - and get guys like Ray Allen and Kevin Garnett, two perennial All-Stars, we felt like we had a championship team.

I truly believe that we're about to enter a second golden age of design. The first one was in the '50s and '60s, when designers like Raymond Loewy, Charles Eames, George Nelson and Dieter Rams were shepherds of the brands they were working with. They had influence over the products and how companies communicated and promoted themselves.

I'm not part of the friends-and-family club; I'm not part of the pay-to-play club; I'm not looking to get re-elected. I'm not looking to go to another office and fill my campaign coffers. I don't need any friends in Albany except the people of the state.

I don't care about getting re-elected; I care about saving the country.

Any time a president is re-elected, he has a little more political clout to get things done.

In order to get re-elected, Obama told us Al Qaeda was on the run and all but defeated.