Quotes About Leadership

My early experiences in animation taught me that following someone else is not a great idea.

I think the Chinese government is doing a great job right now.

Everybody has their detractors. Some people say arrogance, or whatever they may say. I only have one thing in mind, and that's doing a great job for the country.

I have a great job at a great company.

What's great is what Coach Popovich and R.C. Buford and the whole family have done a great job in continuing to build the franchise and still be very, very competitive.

I think my dad's done a great job of letting others have their turn when his term was over and not being out there grandstanding and trying to say, 'Well, this is what I think, and I need to get the news and be on the news and' - he's not like that.

At the end of the day, Coach Belichick does a great job of bringing in people he knows that will fit well.

I think Obama's done a great job.

Diego Simeone has done a great job with a lot of success.

I never wanted Mark Esper's job. I just wanted to see Mark Esper succeed and do a great job as secretary of Defense.

I'm not a great manager; I try to be a great leader. And for me, that's been going through a process of not how to be a great CEO but how to be a great Evan, and that's really been the challenge.

Every great leader knows that his or her role comes with responsibility for those who follow him or her, and in ensuring they provide value in return for their loyalty.

Creating a billion-dollar company is hard, but being a truly great leader is even harder.

I believe that if I don't take care of my family as a great leader and husband and father, I could have all kinds of accolades and awards and a big mantle up there or something with a bunch of statuettes, but if my children don't respect me, if I haven't been a good husband, then that's all a joke to me.

To be a great leader, you firstly have to like people. If you don't like people, at the end of the day they will figure this out and you can't lead them too well.

What I learned from Barack Obama the person is that you can be a great leader and a good person at the same time and that the way to be the best kind of leader is to be decent to the people around you.

Obama is a great leader. He can fire people up and get them to do what he wants.

The sign of a great leader is knowing what you know and knowing what you don't know.

Followship is just as important as leadership. It's very important that you'll know if you're a great leader because you will have awesome followship. And the people behind you will take that burden of responsibility.

I think Unai did a great job and was a great leader, and a fantastic coach.

The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.

Most experts and great leaders agree that leaders are made, not born, and that they are made through their own drive for learning and self-improvement.

Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically.

One of the lessons of leadership worth emphasizing is that you want to get to know other great leaders and take their advice. At some point in your development, it's only people who've been in the seat of having to be leaders who can help you in a deep way.