Quotes About Leadership

I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.

I feel the UPA government has realized that it is not coming back to power.

I think I went into poli-sci because I knew there was a stage, plus I thought I wanted to help people, and I realized in poli-sci that if you want to be a politician you're either born into it, or you've got an amazing brain, which those are rare - and I don't have one.

No, most of our political elite has not realized that the world is flat.

I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on.

That's the really neat thing about Dan Quayle, as you must have realized from the first moment you looked into those lovely blue eyes: impeachment insurance.

After failing four times and after working for other people and realizing that nobody paid attention to the food like they should have, we wanted to just pay attention to the food and service.

Service is key. And as I have more on my plate, and I have more ambitions and more goals and things I want for myself, I'm realizing more and more how important it is to be a servant.

I beg. I call. I badger. I cajole. Part of the secret is everyone has fun and that's really motivating.

Far too often in the political realm, we demonize success; we demagogue against it. What we should be doing is incentivizing success.

I don't see myself in the political realm.

Leaders in the realm of religious activity are to be judged by their praying habits and not by their money or social position. Those who must be placed in the forefront of the Church's business must be, first of all, men who know how to pray.

In the political realm, when I say I'm going to give everything, that means I'll represent the people to the best of my ability.

Only a few act - the rest of us reap the benefits of their risk.

Government leaders need to ask themselves if they are positioning their country to reap the full potential of the digital economy.

As part of any new leadership organization, you come in with a team. You come in to assess. You come in to rearrange.

George W. Bush said the reason the Oval Office is round is there are no corners you can hide in.

There is no reason why EPA's role should ebb and flow based on a particular administration or a particular administrator.

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.

I'm the non-executive chairman of nine or so major companies, and on the nine companies, it's a little trying because you jump from one industry to another, as the case might be. But one had the reasonable knowledge of those nine activities, and it's been an exciting job.

We are giving the citizens of Poland a sense that a reasonable and predictable government is ruling here.

I knew that Chelsea was a club that changed its manager reasonably often.

If I were the president, I would be very concerned... and I would do what was reasonably necessary to find a way to get my people confirmed.

When I was with the Giants, I played for Dusty Baker, and I love Dusty to death. I think he's a great manager and great person, but he platooned me. His reasoning was to get everybody in the lineup. It wasn't that I couldn't play every day.