Quotes About Leadership

Honestly, if I could be anything, I'd love to be a small-business authority type of person.

I think the 20-year-old me from that time, if I could have been managed under Jurgen Klopp, I'd have benefitted.

I don't know if I could have made it as an NBA player. But I knew I could make it as a coach.

If I could achieve half as much as Broony's achieved in his career, I'll be delighted.

If I could have my kids be great when the lights are on, whatever the moment is, to be accountable and then fix it, they're going to be fine.

Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.

Being a role model was part of my life and I could either ignore it or take responsibility. I chose to take it.

People like me who are reform-minded ignore the people who say, 'Just criticize and don't do anything and let's win by default.' That's ridiculous.

When you're a leader, you cannot ignore parts of your constituency, even if you know they're not going to vote for you.

In all the difficult decisions that I made through the course of running Loudcloud and Opsware, I never once felt brave. In fact, I often felt scared to death. I never lost those feelings, but after much practice, I learned to ignore them. That learning process might also be called the courage development process.

The best entrepreneurs know when to ignore sage advice.

Feedback for leaders is often nuanced and difficult to deliver. That said, hearing you are passive-aggressive from 10 different people described 10 different ways becomes hard to ignore.

As a nation, we face a choice. With parts of the world on fire, can we ignore the despair beyond our borders? Or do we use our global influence and leadership to confront these challenges head-on?

We have to be able to show Canadians that our strength on the economy doesn't mean we ignore all other issues.

I've learned how to measure what I say. Al Sharpton in 1986 was trying to be heard. I was a local guy and was like, 'Y'all are ignoring us.'

I'm completely free of the ill effects of factional influence.

For 11 years, I was mayor of Tirana, our capital. We faced many challenges. Art was part of the answer, and my name, in the very beginning, was linked with two things: demolition of illegal constructions in order to get public space back, and use of colors in order to revive the hope that had been lost in my city.

The Democrats are fighting for illegal aliens. Donald Trump is fighting for American citizens.

We all know Illinois has big challenges. And under Gov. Rauner, things have only gotten worse.

Small ideas won't help Illinois' future.

I'm running for governor because I think we need to change things in Illinois.

Did I say that the President's entire job is image management? Of course not.

I want more girls to be able to see themselves behind the camera creating images we all enjoy, and I want to call attention to the fact that women directors are here all over the world.

Ideas control the world.