Quotes About Leadership

Anybody who thinks that they should lead the country should go ahead and put their hat in the ring. I am not among them. And I want to be unequivocal about that. There are no circumstances. I don't want to be coy about this.

Authority is never without hate.

I think our Founding Fathers, they would disagree, but they weren't disagreeable. They didn't hate each other; they didn't want to kill each other off.

Some loved me, some hated me - but they all followed me.

I think that both men, Bush and Blair, will be damned in history. Both men have made their respective countries the two most hated countries in the world.

I will never do as a coach the things I hated people doing to me when I was a player.

There were days when I hated politics. But I fought against hating the people on the other side because we were all in the same business - the business of building our country's future.

Hatred for Obama... has more to do with race than anything else.

You cannot do politics by breaking the society into pieces or creating hatred.

The children of Israel will not grow up in a state where some of its leaders sanctify hatred. I won't let hate win.

The way I see it hatred, racism and bigotry are like embers that, over time - with honest debate, leadership, and a firm commitment to our moral and democratic values - can be extinguished.

I was never a ringleader, but I was willing, when asked questions, to give my opinion. And when you say things quite bluntly, it's very easy for people to hang their hats on that.

The great thing about being a lead is getting to go to work every day and have fun.

If you're going to coach, you need to have fun coaching.

I have a fantastic team, and it's much easier having children, because that creates a natural limit.

A lot of young guys, I'm just trying to show them the way, make sure they have successful careers and I'm having fun doing it.

Famine has wreaked havoc in Ethiopia for so long , it would be stupid not to be sensitive to the risk of such things occurring. But there has not been a famine on our watch - emergencies, but no famines.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

The director needs to have a vision and clarity in his mind. It's not enough to know the story, he or she should have the knowledge and efficiency to execute it articulately.

You certainly don't want to market the president as if he or she were a box of breakfast cereal.

Every citizen has to figure out what kind of government he or she wants.

Then I usually leave the choice of the second assistant director and any other assistant directors to the first assistant director, who will choose because he or she is responsible for the conduct and the efficiency of the second assistant directors.

If a leader comes to office in a seemingly fair election and tolerates dissent, he or she qualifies for our seal of approval.

It's through a leader's actions - what he or she does and says on a daily basis - that the essence of great leadership becomes apparent.