Quotes About Leadership

I used to think my job as a CEO meant managing metrics and meeting goals, but I've realised now that's it's about managing my board and employees.

I've realised that doctors can only help change a certain number of patients, but a Minister of Health can really change things.

The jobs of manager and director of football are too big for one individual - this I realised very quickly.

Lately, I have realised that when you play at the highest level, you have to play according to what the team demands.

Over time I realised that the most important thing is not the system but the players you have. Then you make a system for them.

Ive been wanting to play Macbeth for quite a long time but then I just realised nobody is going to offer me the role so I have to generate it myself.

I wouldn't have run for office if I wasn't an optimistic person. I'm a realistic optimistic person, though.

As CEO, I believe my most important job is to both define reality and inspire hope for the PayPal team. Defining reality includes being realistic about all the things that could go wrong so that we are prepared to navigate those challenges.

In a system created by Putin, it is only possible for Putin to win. I am realistic about who will become the president.

A big part of managing is managing defeats and assessing where you are. It's making sure that you prepare a group of players and that you create an environment that is a competitive one but that is also a realistic one.

People have been saying that Amar Singh is more of an intellectual than a grassroot politician but we will prove them wrong. We will pick up problems, explore them in a realistic way and present them in parliament.

Our aim is not to die. It is to carry out the revolution, to make a reality of our ideas. We must live, to get them accepted by the people.

David Cameron was a good-looking chap in his day!

I don't have a complacent dressing room, thank goodness.

With my own cartoon, it was just me being goofy by myself, but when it comes to an animated film, you're working with 45 animators and assistant animators. It's a whole different ballgame.

I was Google's first woman engineer.

I am responsible for creating and overseeing the future products that make up Google Advertising.

When you Google someone's name, it matters to me what shows up. Not the lies, but like, did you change lives? Did you do something while you were here?

I've been, like, the mom of Google.

I don't think the GOP is going to die; I think Trump is going to revive it.

When I think about Trump and the GOP, the blood really is on their hands.

It is not true that Trump is nobody's fool. He is the GOP's.

David Cameron has a different style to Gordon Brown.

People don't have to agree with me. They can say, 'My gosh, I can't believe I'm listening to this guy. I can't disagree with him more.' But at least they know that I'm going to fight for things that I believe in. And I don't need to be in formal office to do that.