Quotes About Leadership

I just want Texas to be number one in something other than executions, toll roads and property taxes.

But obviously captaincy is a long process. It takes its toll as time goes on.

All the negatives, the flags for the personal fouls and silly stuff after the play, that takes a toll. People don't want to be a part of that.

Even when every Tom, Dick and Harry was calling for my head, I still felt I could get better at being captain.

I'm a Tom Brady guy to the fullest. I love the way he manages the game, his mindset. He always works with less. He doesn't always have the best receivers, but he's going to make it work.

Tom Browkaw said it best. He said NBC could survive without him or the rest of the news division, but not Nancy Fields.

Obviously Tom Brady is a great quarterback.

And Evie was the grown-up now. She was in the line of grown-ups behind the child.

was a team player only until he was handed the ball. And then he simply had to run with it. The sort of man who could not hand it off, as he ought to, the sort of man who would risk the game to score a point. The wrong sort.

The punishing conditions helped birth the protest and reform groups' remarkable solidarity. But those conditions were not experienced by—or even visible to—other classes. And the nation's leadership did everything it could to thwart egalitarian tendencies. Between 1914 and 1945, however, the industrialized world and much of its periphery suffered a series of disasters that were absolutely generalized.

Leadership matters. Different leadership pushed the United Kingdom and the United States in a different direction. It might have nurtured egalitarian tendencies in Germany, too.

The five chairs of the power committees," for example, "must contribute $500,000 [each] and raise an additional $1 million" for congressional campaign funds. Big donors thus get to choose not just who runs for office, but who, once elected, leads.

For example, executives and HR departments should not offer the vice president of Enron a string of government jobs in the public-private international development and infrastructure industries after his company's debacle.

By 1940 'America first' had been entangled in America's political narrative for decades. Charles Lindbergh and the America First Committee of 1940 were not the beginning of the story of 'America first'. They were the end–until Donald Trump resuscitated the term.

Together he [Girolamo Savonarola] and his archenemy Lorenzo [de' Medici] would have been the stuff of gargoyles. One could almost imagine the diptych in which their profiles confronted each other, their noses as powerful as their personalities.

With Edward's death imminent, questions of whether a woman could succeed were irrelevant. The only question was, which woman?

Go into an open area with your puppy and have the leader tell the players when they can start to wiggle and dance! If your puppy begins to get excited, instruct "Wait." Repeat "Wait" in a strong voice as you stop abruptly. Toss a toy for your puppy to reward their self-control!

Rather than console them, courageously face the distraction; reward your puppy for following your lead.

Weak men who fall into positions of power are dying to give it up to anyone who will take it. The poor player would throw the ball to someone on the other team just to be rid of the worry of what to do with it, of the dread that he would have to be a man of action for a moment.

Weak men who fall into positions of power are dying to give it up to anyone who will take it.

Although Mar would be quite pleased to be consort, Skjaldwulf didn't want to be wolfjarl. He wanted Isolfr, and he would take the damned job that went with it, if he could win it, if that was what it took.

I thought you were trying to prove to the board you're responsible?' 'I'll use a condom. Does that count?

Folks, this government isn't too big to fail, it's too big to succeed.

To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.