Quotes About Leadership

When you explain to people what you're trying to do, as opposed to just making demands or delegating tasks, you can build instant trust, even if it's just for that short time you're on the phone.

It doesn't really matter if you are left behind the back, but what matters is your capacity to pull and push everyone by your way to get to the front.

Now is the time to show maximum responsibility. It is not the time to pay off old scores nor for sterile partisan recriminations. It is time to re-establish a climate of calmness and mutual respect.

Like Lyndon Johnson, President Obama understands that timidity in a time of troubles is a prescription for failure.

The best way to be productive is to have a great team. So I spend more time than most CEOs on human resources. That's 20 percent of my week.

Leadership can not be measured in a poll or even in the result of an election. It can only be truly seen with the benefit of time. From the perspective of 20 years, not 20 days.

It's really necessary for the United States to continue to give strong leadership to the Middle East peace process, supported by European countries at the same time.

There was a time when the United States government earned the trust of its people. There was a time when most people believed that the United States government was protecting them.

If you're waiting for encouragement from others, you're doing it wrong. By the time people think an idea is good, it's probably too late.

There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.

It is for us and our time...to say the right makes might.

I ... ran for Legislature [in 1832] ... and was beaten-the only time I have been beaten by the people.

I did my homework, of course, by inhaling as much literature as was available to find, so that when it was time to shoot I could hopefully exhale [ Harriet Tubman ].

It is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program.

I look at Rafa Benitez in his time at Liverpool, he had difficult periods and the same goes for Brendan Rodgers in the same job now. These difficult periods come and you have to accept that.

I have a hard time imagining a country or a government where I would say, "Oh, this is good," where I could live under a government that I respect for a day or a week, even to see what it feels like.

As a wife, daughter, friend, and the founder and CEO of LearnVest, my schedule is anything but simple. But I learned early on how to meticulously manage my time.

Never make a personnel judgment the first time it comes up.

It's never a good time, when you're the president of the United States and your own party is finding lots of different ways to distance themselves from you.

Boards without women - blacklist those suckers. It's 2011. They've had the time - it's significant that they don't have women.

I run my household. Not all the time, well, sometimes.

It's time to sleep your way to the top.

If you want to be a real entrepreneur you have to be the cause, you have to be the creator of someone else's new realty. Which eliminates time, space, motion, and friction.

I would say I'm 90 percent collaborative in everything I do, and 10 percent of the time I just make the call.