Quotes About Leadership

You got to have people at the top who respond to and are selected by presidents.

It's always been my expectation to be the top guy, the face of the company, the one with all of that responsibility. But that should be everybody's goal. I didn't get into this to just be in the middle of the pack. If you want to do that, go work in a different line of work. This isn't the place to camouflage yourself.

There I was on the front page of the 'London Times' as speaker of the House with an animal on top of my head. I liked it, but it was not what my staff thought was appropriately dignified.

I just want to go out on a high note, go out on top, and lead my team.

There is no shame in taking pride in achievements or position. But nobody gets to the top alone.

It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.

Everybody on top has a ton of haters.

Knowing whose advice to take and on what topic is the single most important decision an entrepreneur can make.

Talking about stepping down in five years is frankly not a topic of particular actuality now.

I feel like the business side came more naturally to me along with the product design side, but managing and effectively leading large organizations of people is something that is perpetually challenging and the topic on which I am constantly looking for good advice.

I think it is a mistake for candidates, or once they get elected in office, to be dwelling too much on the topic of markets.

There are two big benefits from moving conversations from a mode where you're addressing individuals, or groups of individuals, to addressing a channel which is a topic, a project, a functional discipline, or whatever.

One of the topics I'm most passionate about is servant leadership - the greatest leaders recognize that they're here to serve, not to be served.

I have hundreds of poems memorized. Mostly by others, but also my own. I use the poems when I lead retreats for management groups on topics like creating teams, or coming up with a more entrepreneurial system, or creating more excitement.

Europe needs an engine, and the Franco-German motor has provided that when the two nations have converged on important topics during critical periods. But that partnership shouldn't be a directorate for other EU members.

A president, like a college freshman, can't know in advance which questions he'll have to answer or what topics he'll have to master. He has to be flexible, supple, and responsive. He has to be comfortable with multiple-choice.

I think we just need to stick to our knitting on the topics and the subjects the American people care about.

Of course what is talked about in the U.N. General Assembly is very important. Officials, the leaders of nations, appear there to speak of the most important topics - what they perceive to be the most important topics.

To be looked up to as one of the Americans that's supposed to carry the torch, go to the major championships and get medals, that's a huge honour.

He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.

A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy.

I feel like it's my job to carry the torch.

When former President Carlos Salinas de Gortari passed the torch to Zedillo, he knew that economic difficulty lay ahead but believed that the Yale-trained economist's impeccable technical credentials would be enough to maintain Mexico's stability.

You've got to have new stars and you need people to pass the torch to build those stars.