Quotes About Leadership

If you exclude your talent base from the benefits of hiring and deploying and making women successful, you're going to do less well than businesses that do a better job on that front.

If you are in a hiring position, hire someone that is nothing like you. We keep looking for the commonalities, but find someone with commonalities that are nothing like you.

The company has grown so by hiring the right people, and a key person responsible for finding the right people is Ann Marr. Ann is responsible on both ends - finding the people and retaining them.

If you're hiring a manager for two to three years, you need to get it right.

Coach Saban's a great coach; he does it his way, and I have to do it my way. I have to cut my own cloth.

Having someone from Washington, California, or Chicago come in as a verifier, it shows the Hispanic community that Hispanic leaders support me.

Do I think police chiefs, many of which are African-American or Hispanic, wake up and say, 'Let's systemically oppress African-American communities?' No, I don't. Are there instances in which that happens? I'm sure there are.

I can't tell you how many resumes we get from business schools across the country from black women and black men and Hispanic women, men, etcetera, who say I'm interested in working for your company because they can see someone at the top who looks like them.

I didn't realize the president was such an historian.

Historians are going to look back on rising China and say America, at least under the Bush years, did not get that wrong.

Unless you're playing a historical figure, a writer or director can change their minds. And sometimes your job is to make them change their minds - to make them believe that you're the one that can do it.

Our historical responsibility does not end at the Austrian or European border.

Historically, Jose Mourinho is not a manager who chops and changes his team and he's not big on rotation.

Historically, America has answered to a higher authority.

I don't think the American people, if you look historically, elect angry candidates.

Black women have historically had the most to lose and have therefore been the fiercest fighters for justice.

It is not I who have been consigned to the bedroom of history.

I let the American people down.

Charles de Gaulle

You can't destroy America by destroying our elite. Think about America's elite. Think about it down through history. Destroy our elite, and about half the time, you're doing us a favor.

I'd always thought leadership was a CEO or president or person in a position of power. And honestly, to me, that meant a man - because that's what I was reading about in history books growing up.

Most history books are about power.

You've just got to deliver the first blow. In football, you're going to get hit. Don't let someone deliver the hit to you. You've got to deliver the hit to them.

I play the way it's most effective for the team. They used to say I hit the ball too many times.