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Quotes About Leadership

Before you can inspire your players to "win," you have to show them how not to lose.
~ Bob Knight
Coaching is leadership, and leadership is leadership, whether in a gym, an office, a classroom, or a family.
~ Bob Knight
Not a title, because how do you give a title to someone who ran an organization that no one was supposed to talk about?
~ Bob Mayer
To keep the officer corps from becoming filled with sycophants who would support a particular party or person over the country, in 1802 he ordered the establishment of an Academy to train a professional cadre of officers that would draw its cadets from across the country and across the strata of society.
~ Bob Mayer
Wake Up Winners are wide awake; they are alive. Every day you will find them in the marketplace making things happen. The real winners are not just dreamers. Although they have dreams, they are doers: They realize their dreams. They are the bell ringers, always attempting to wake others up to the numerous opportunities life offers. If
~ Bob Proctor
Trump is the wrong man for the job.
~ Bob Woodward
Cohn concluded that Trump was, in fact, going backwards. He had been more manageable the first months when he was a novice.
~ Bob Woodward
Real power is—I don't even want to use the word—fear," Trump told us. "I bring rage out. I do bring rage out. I always have. I don't know if that's an asset or a liability, but whatever it is, I do.
~ Bob Woodward
Let that analysis sink in: Twenty percent of the president's staff think they are "saving the world" from the president.
~ Bob Woodward
In a small group meeting in his office one day, Kelly said of the president, "He's an idiot. It's pointless to try to convince him of anything. He's gone off the rails. We're in crazytown. "I don't even know why any of us are here. This is the worst job I've ever had.
~ Bob Woodward
Tillerson said, and the floodgates gushed open. "The president can't make a decision. He doesn't know how to make a decision.
~ Bob Woodward
When Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un amped up the rhetoric, he was warned, "Twitter could get us into a war.
~ Bob Woodward
Kelly seemed to be just trying to keep the ship from sinking. At a senior staff meeting in early 2018, he announced with pride, "I now know that I will not be the shortest-serving chief of staff. I've now surpassed Reince." Priebus had served 189 days, the shortest tenure of any White House chief of staff in history.
~ Bob Woodward
Kelly said of the president, "He's an idiot. It's pointless to try to convince him of anything. He's gone off the rails. We're in crazytown. "I don't even know why any of us are here. This is the worst job I've ever had.
~ Bob Woodward
He's a fucking moron," Tillerson said so everyone heard.
~ Bob Woodward
This degradation of the American experiment is real. This is tangible. Truth is no longer governing the White House statements. Nobody believes—even the people who believe in him somehow believe in him without believing what he says.
~ Bob Woodward
Republican senator Bob Corker had told reporters "the president has not yet been able to demonstrate the stability nor some of the competence" needed to succeed in office.
~ Bob Woodward
The important thing is the presidency, Nixon continued. If need be, save the presidency from the President.
~ Bob Woodward
Eventually Porter developed a routine and would bring in two to 10 decision memos for him to sign each day. Trump liked signing. It meant he was doing things, and he had an up-and-down penmanship that looked authoritative in black Magic Marker.
~ Bob Woodward
And is there anybody in charge at the White House who was doing anything but kissing his fat butt all over this?
~ Bob Woodward
Bannon recalled, "that this is the real deal. This is a guy totally unprepared. Hillary Clinton spent her entire adult life getting ready for this moment. Trump hasn't spent a second getting ready for this moment.
~ Bob Woodward
I guess you're right," Trump said several times. "We could do that." But then he ignored most reviews or vetting and did what he wanted.
~ Bob Woodward
Do you want this job?" the president asked McMaster. "Yes, sir." "You got it," Trump said and shook McMaster's hand. "Get the media. Get the cameras in here." He wanted a picture with his latest general who looked out of Central Casting.
~ Bob Woodward
Cohn concluded that Trump just loved to pit people against each other.
~ Bob Woodward