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Quotes About Leadership

You've got to coach worrying about your entire team: whether that gets you a championship or whether that gets you fired. I think it allows you to coach free. You're coaching with freedom because you know you're doing what you think is right.
~ Doc Rivers
I don't want people to spend their nights worrying about getting hit by asteroids. But I do want them to encourage their political leaders to invest in the insurance, which will allow us to prevent it from happening.
~ Rusty Schweickart
Trump doesn't go a day without worrying me. It seems like every day there's something new.
~ Maz Jobrani
There seems to be a sense in the British media that prime ministers enjoy going to war. They do not. The decision to send British soldiers into battle is the worst and most stomach-churning senior politicians have to take. It makes them wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat worrying if they have done the right thing.
~ Jonathan Powell
I think running the country is a little more important than worrying about the BCS title game.
~ Reggie Miller
I have to spend my time worrying about poor families at the expense of helping businesses, or vice versa. To me, I really see that's the bridge I need to build.
~ Eric Garcetti
I went into coaching never worrying about what I was coaching for other than trying to make sure that I can prepare my team, select my team, have an amazing staff around me.
~ Jill Ellis
My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.
~ George Washington
Corporate culture matters. How management chooses to treat its people impacts everything - for better or for worse.
~ Simon Sinek
When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!
~ Chinua Achebe
There are dictators a bit worse than me, no? I'm the lesser evil already.
~ Alexander Lukashenko
One thing worse than an America that is too strong, the world will learn, is an America that is too weak.
~ Michael Mandelbaum
It came to me that the one thing I could do was cook. And I figured I couldn't do any worse than the people running these places around town.
~ Colonel Sanders
I hesitated, too, because for better or worse, I have been one of the principal architects of New Labour and I have worked closely with Tony Blair and the team for nearly 20 years.
~ Peter Mandelson
There's nothing worse than finding yourself in a situation, a very demanding piece of work, and knowing that you're not a true ally to the person who's in charge of all that.
~ Daniel Day-Lewis
Empty threats are often worse than saying nothing at all. It's like leading from behind. Eventually, no one thinks you're leading at all. And after a while, no one is even listening.
~ Kathleen Troia McFarland
I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
It is aspiring tyrants who say that 'civil liberties end when an attack on our safety begins.' Conversely, leaders who wish to preserve the rule of law find other ways to speak about real terrorist threats, and certainly do not invent them or deliberately make them worse.
~ Timothy D. Snyder
There is only one thing that gives me hope as a Republican, and that is the Democrats. It's going to be hard to do a worse job running American than the Republicans have, but if anybody can do it, it's the Democrats.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
How would Elvira run the state of California? Well, there isn't much I could do that is worse than what Arnold Schwarzenegger has done. Running it into the damn ground. If I was running the whole nation? I would have free Netflix movies for everyone.
~ Cassandra Peterson
The more people involved in making a movie, the worse it is, generally.
~ Catherine Keener
Virtually nothing Barack Obama has done has left America or the world better since he became president. Nearly everything he has touched has been made worse.
~ Dennis Prager
I had worked for George Bush as a speechwriter, and I read a lot of White House memoirs. They all have two themes: 'It Wasn't My Fault' and 'It Would Have Been Much Worse if I Hadn't Been There.'
~ Christopher Buckley