Quotes About Leadership

I think what's happening here is, there's a group or maybe one person who is saying this is gonna be the definition and this is what we want to get the kids to do now.

What's happening internally is eventually what will take AOL back to being a growth company.

Essentially, you have to be aware of a crisis happening: 'Can the company go on if I get hit by a bus?' That's, I think, how you build a great company and something that can scale.

I don't feel like my life happens to me. I feel like I happen to my life. I feel that I'm in the driver's seat.

After the first ball is bowled, it's only chaos. What you are trying to do is you're trying to manage the chaos. It's not like a script that happens.

When the manager comes in he cannot say, 'This is something I want to do.' It is an environment that the manager creates and it happens over time.

For 60 years, I was the most controversial figure in the country, and suddenly, I'm the most popular man in the land. Truth be told, I don't know when I was happier: then or now.

As far as my leadership style is concerned what makes me happiest is fulfilling my potential and helping others realize theirs. If you have really done that then the rest of it is actually very simple.

I am a collaborator with everyone who agrees that I need to be in control. I happily collaborate with my loyalists.

I'm still number one, so don't forget about that. So I still can have a happy ending.

I'm happy people look at me as a role model.

It's a hard job to become president.

Being the front guy is a hard job.

That's the hard thing about this sport. You don't have a guy over you telling you what you have to do. 'You have to do this, you have to do that.' So at the end of the day, I'm responsible for myself. So what I do is I put people in place around me to help keep me accountable.

You read these management books that say, 'These are the hard things about running a company.' But those aren't really the hard things. The hard things are when you have to layoff half your company, or you have to fire your best friend. Or you have to figure out a way not to go bankrupt.

The thing that helped me most when I started my own business was my experience as the president and PR director of student associations in college. Because of that I knew how to create and run an organization and how to really make things - even hard things - happen.

Ann and I were the main writers in Heart. We had the leadership role, and the guys in the band sometimes had a hard time with that.

LeBron is the best player in our league, but some people have a hard time playing with him.

I learned in an extremely hard way that the accountability falls with me.

Basic training was hard, but I made it - because I wanted to be the best me. Sometimes you have to learn that being the best you is being the second best you. I learned the hard way that the army doesn't want people who always come first. Otherwise, there would be only one person in the army.

Cristiano Ronaldo is more of a professional, hard-working guy. Ronaldo is the example you follow.

If people think the boss is manipulating them to get them to work harder, it backfires.

It's definitely harder being a dad than a coach.

It is much harder to retain your position at the top than to get to the top.