Quotes About Leadership

When I was interviewed after I got hired to replace Walter Alston, a future Hall of Famer, I was asked: 'Don't you feel pressure on you?' I said: 'Want to know something? I'm worried about the guy who's going to have to replace me.'

As you know, I'm not on SnapFace and all that, so I don't really get those. I'm really just worried about getting our team ready to go.

Ralph Reed is deeply ambitious and always was so. There was a time when he... in one of my interviews, he said he pondered running the Ross Perot campaign, and he wasn't sure he wanted to do the Christian Right thing; he was worried that it boxed him into a corner.

I'm not worried. I'm in control.

Before, I was a little bit skeptical about women coaching, because I don't know if maybe they are different, and not every woman can be strict to take the best out of you. I was worried about this, but so far I see that some women can be much stronger than men, actually.

CEOs are worried they're going to get fired any minute. They're worried about their portfolios.

I don't know in the world why anyone would consent to be a king, and never to be left to himself, but to be worried and wearied and interfered with from dark to daybreak and from morning to the fall of night.

You can get the best out of people if they're happy and not worried or not frightened that they're going to make a mistake.

I was worried about my mom more than I was worried about the president. And then I was worried about the president, and then I was worried about myself.

Running for attorney general troubled me. Because I was worried I would simply become just a figurehead and that's not me.

I think great bosses hire great people. 'A' people hire 'A' people, but 'B' people hire 'C' people; they're worried they might be shown up... they're concerned that that person might make them look bad.

Sadly, far too many politicians in Washington lack the courage to do something to fix our problems. They are worried about the political implications of making the hard choices we so desperately need to cut spending and shrink government.

If you're the CEO of a publicly traded company, you're worried about quarterly returns.

I was elected to the Senate in 2010 by people worried about our country, worried about our kids and their future.

My whole life, I've never worried about being No. 1, because that's the guy they've got to get out of there.

The United States should stop being the 'empire' and be concerned about other countries. You've got to be more worried about your own people.

I'm just worried about what I'm doing. Case has played well, and Case is doing a great job. But at the same time, I'm not going to concern myself with him.

I think a lot of times people look at me and say, 'Well, we can't possibly hand a show over to her to run.' It seemed like executives would be worried about me controlling a room and having power, and I'd say, 'Oh, I can control a room. I can give an order like nobody's business.'

Comey worried that the pressure from Trump to end the Flynn investigation or remove the 'cloud' of the larger investigation would 'infect' the investigation if he let others working on the case know about it. You don't need to believe the particulars of each exchange to see that this mode of management was not productive to a larger purpose.

When Barack Obama won in 2008, in 2009 I voted for his team because I think that - that the American people wanted him to have his team. But don't think I wasn't worried about it. Really worried.

I'm often the one in my gang of friends who's worried about how we're going to get from A to B. I'm the one running around saying, 'Is somebody going to do something about it?' Everyone else is bit more chilled.

I'm not worried about a 'blue wave,' I just think Republicans have to act like Republicans and govern like Republicans.

I'm not too worried about points and all that stuff. It's about making the right play.

I think I was 24 when I went to USC with Pete Carroll. Pete believed in people and never worried about their age. I learned that from him.