Quotes About Leadership

It's great to have a great past and history. But it's even greater to have a good future. So the most important history is the history we make today.

I just coach the way I was coached when I was young, in my formative years. I grew up under demanding people, that demanded things from you, expected you to toe the mark.

I was always told I had to be an example to my siblings. I was told to toe the line. So I had to behave.

A high-profile player has to toe the line and I try to lead by example. A lot of guys appreciate that, and it is an advantage to have somebody as captain whom the players feel they can look up to; somebody whose door they can knock on to talk about anything on cricket or life.

I don't subscribe to this view that the far-right is somehow in control of the Conservative party from top to toe.

Keeping people on their toes is the best way to get the best out of people.

I try to not to step on any coach's toes as far as what I'm telling the young guys or what I'm trying to give them.

I'm very confident with who I am and how I lead, and I'm a problem solver and like to keep myself on my toes.

At the highest level, a discussion can be good sometimes to get everyone back on their toes.

It is impossible to get anything made or accomplished without stepping on some toes; enemies are inevitable when one is a doer.

It's part of the captain's job to keep people on their toes.

It is important to challenge your major players. You need to keep them on their toes but there are ways of doing that. Sometimes you have to be a shoulder to cry on. You can't be constantly at them.

Sometimes I am the 'philosophical professor, or I can do the voice like thunder if necessary... or if I want to keep the lads on their toes I might sit back and give them a thousand-yard stare.

I don't want to step on the DP's toes. That's the first lesson I learned when I started directing with other cinematographers.

For acquiring companies, the excitement is almost always about where they are going - that is, their strategy for gaining greater growth and productivity. But when mergers fail, it's often because no one focused on who they are - that is, their culture, which is critical to successfully bringing different groups of people together.

I think good governance and good politics can go together.

A good chef has to be a manager, a businessman and a great cook. To marry all three together is sometimes difficult.

The governor should be a public servant, who listens, brings people together and governs with compassion.

Teams need the opportunity to learn about each other's capabilities and develop productive routines. So once we get the right people on the bus, let's make sure they spend some time driving together.

By nature, I am a unifier. I am a builder of consensus. I don't believe in sloppy compromise. But I do believe in bringing people together.

Reagan was all about America, and you talked about it. Obama is, 'We are above that now. We're not just parochial, we're not just chauvinistic, we're not just provincial. We stand for something.' I mean, in a way, Obama's standing above the country, above - above the world. He's sort of God. He's going to bring all different sides together.

Representing a company with the largest and one of the most diverse groups of associates in the U.S., and an even more diverse customer base of tens of millions of customers, we believe we should stay engaged to try to influence decisions in a positive way and help bring people together.

Us boss chicks have to continue to stick together and change the game.

Democratic, Republican members of Congress get along fine. But what you have is this institutional Hatfield and McCoy sentiment coming from our constituents, where the base of both sides doesn't want people to get along. But the majority of Americans, I feel, the majority, they are in the middle. They actually do want both sides to get together.