Quotes About Leadership

Now is the time to act or get stuck with a bland, boring, career politician who will lose to Barack Obama.

There's a difference between a job and a career - if you're the boss you don't stop at six o'clock, you have to worry about everything all the time.

In the business of acting, those are the actors that make the trains run on time, you know? There's nothing without them.

I think it's very, very hard not to go slightly crazy if you're in the top in politics, especially if you're there for a long time.

I grew up around strong women; weak men were pickled and salted. The women wouldn't waste time raising a weak boy.

I've seen, all too often in my career, people coming in to lead agencies and organizations and trying to impose change from the top down. Never works. You never have enough time.

I was able to do something that people cant do these days, which is to have quality time with the guys who were trying to be president and a number of them who got the job.

Eisenhower was a pretty peace-oriented president. Truman was a pretty hawkish. I would argue, if we had more time, I would argue Truman had a lot to do with getting the Cold War going.

I talk to players all the time.

Election night is the easiest time to act like a grownup.

Those who say that we're in a time when there are no heroes, they just don't know where to look.

A week is a long time in politics, and three weeks is twice as long.

I think Donald Trump is a preeminent multitasker, can handle multiple things at one time, and when he's committed to doing something, nothing stops him or gets in his way.

I want Apple to continue to innovate. I want them to be on time. I want them to be leaders. And my big concern with Apple recently has been they can't build what they're designing.

Probably the first time I was a boss was when I was associate dean of the graduate school at the University of Southern California. I was in my early 30s.

Every first time founder waits too long, everyone hopes that an employee will turn around. But the right answer is to fire fast.

Most good founders that I know at any given time have a set of small overarching goals for the company that everybody in the company knows.

I think the best thing you can do is be aware that as a first time founder you are likely to be a very bad manager.

Decisions are made by people who have time, not people who have talent.

I am running because I love my country and Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama are ruining it. It is time to take our country back and I am asking you to join me in this fight.

A wise governor told me a long time ago, political capital you don't get more of by keeping it. You get it by using it.

The paradox is that by the time you get to be senior, the decisions that matter the most are the ones that would be best made made by people who are junior.

You're in charge but don't touch the controls. Recounting what the two Russian cosmonauts tell her each time they leave the Mir space station for a spacewalk.

I can't tell you how freeing it is to have my own label. For the first time in my career, I have total control.