Quotes About Leadership

I'm Machiavelli's offspring, I'm the king of New York, king of the coast, one hand, I juggle them both.

I run New York City!

From those to whom much is given, much is expected. I have been given much - the love of my family, the faith and trust of the people of New York, and the chance to lead this state. I am deeply sorry that I did not live up to what was expected of me.

When I became mayor of New York City, I had a $2.4 billion deficit. And everybody wanted me to raise taxes. I said, 'If I raise taxes, I'll drive people out of New York City, and then I'll be raising taxes again.' So what I did was I cut expenses by 15 percent.

The mayor of New York is the chief executive of the city. It is a complex organization and it requires the requisite skills to understand how to be the leader of the people and manage the government of N.Y.

What's more important than who's going to be the first black manager is who's going to be the first black sports editor of the New York Times.

The politicians of New York have everything that is necessary to make proper decisions and they will have to live with what happens afterwards. The worst scenario is the politicians covering their eyes and turning it over to the FBI.

I've taken the leap of faith to stop punching the company time clock and start working for myself. I'm now the CEO of Starfish Media Group, my production company, in New York City.

The New York Yankees' organization - they train us well from the get-go. They tell us how to handle everything.

Dick Grasso would be a superb mayor of the City of New York. He loves the city.

I think if you had to choose between running a tabloid and being president of the United States, of course you'd run the tabloid, especially in New York.

In the governments, as we've witnessed in the past, they had to hide. Because there's a lot of concentration on the friends-and-family club... We're not about that. That's not the government of the future of the State of New York. What's gonna pull this state out of the doldrums that it's in right now is an honest and open government.

To every New Yorker - and to all those who believed in what I tried to stand for - I sincerely apologize.

When I took over 'The New Yorker,' there was a very, very good, smart staff in place.

I always loved the Yorkshire members and was passionate about playing for the county, but the people who were running the club made it at times unbearable for me. The rulers had a history of doing what they wanted and sacking players seemingly on a whim.

You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.

You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead.

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

You can't pee like a puppy if you wanna run with the big dogs.

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.