Quotes About Leadership

What differentiates leaders is the ability to recover following a mistake. I make mistakes all the time, but I cop to them, apologize, and move on. Contrition is powerful.

We really must recover our financial performance and take Nintendo back into the position in the marketplace where it is well appreciated.

As a captain, you don't have to worry about playing well, or recovering, or injury. As captain, you know the match is in the hands of the player, not you.

We could have a political movement going if it had been properly organized but the Monarchy's done itself enormous damage possibly beyond the point of long-term recovery.

The larger the disaster, the more necessary it is to have the government as the principal driver of recovery.

Some of the best comedies now are led by women who are very involved: 'Parks and Recreation.' 'Veep's' incredible. I love 'Girls.'

My name is Harvey Milk and I'm here to recruit you.

How do you recruit a player if you don't really know what it is that you are trying to do? How do you convince a player of the way you want to play if you don't have clarity yourself over why you want to do it?

We need candidate schools to recruit more young African-Americans to run for office and more diverse law enforcement communities.

I joined the board of Etsy when it was just three founders, and I helped recruit the COO and CTO, Chad Dickerson, who later became the CEO.

We must continue to recruit progressive prosecutors to run in local elections, support those who do, and hold them accountable if they win.

I always felt like, one of the niches is if you can recruit the SEC, you can be a head coach in the SEC.

If the team needs me to recruit somebody, I'll be here. I'll be doing that.

I'm not embarrassed about how we recruit, how we treat kids, and how we coach them.

I sleep so easy knowing that I never once lied to a player, never once lied to a recruit, and never once lied to any coaches or administration. Those are the people I care about.

Clubs need to take more ownership on how they recruit managers.

Recruiting is the hardest part of any business, but in charity, it is 10 times harder.

The classic problem as an entrepreneur is that they have a hard time delegating. But that's really crazy. Recruiting other executives is critical, so is dealing with customers and dealing with regulators. Those are functions that only the top founders can do.

I'm not bothered when other VCs start hiring great designers or start recruiting. That's the direction I'd like it to go.

I might not have a conference championship or a national championship as a head coach, but I had the recruiting factor.

I don't know if I'm different from everybody else, but there's really only two things to me that are really, really important - recruiting good players in the program and developing those players once they get here.

I've missed the association with players and coaches but haven't missed the recruiting and the travel.

What most teachers need is very strong leadership and motivation, and when it comes to recruiting teachers you want to have the biggest possible pool possible.

I've said this about many people, but when you were recruiting against John Beilein you knew it was a fair fight, a real fight and he was going to do it the right way. I have a lot of respect for John. He's a heck of a coach and he will do a great job in Cleveland.