Quotes About Leadership

You don't have to be a leader of a big organization. You can be a leader of your brother, of a young kid, of your community. That way you affect life, someway, somehow.

If I believe I'm still a young kid, it's hindering me. I am leading the line for Everton so you have to grow into your shoes and carry that weight on your shoulders.

That's what you want to do as a manager, finish the game, get in your bath and think about the kids going home, the young kids going home.

There are a lot of young kids serving in Washington, D.C.: kids that are smart, hard-working, but they've never farmed. They've never run a business. They've never been in the private sector. They went from high school into college and right into Washington, D.C.

You've got these young kids out here that have to learn, but you learn from the guys above you. I learned from the Kevin Faulks.

That's one thing I tell young kids is watch Chris Paul play basketball. He doesn't just play the game. He's trying to beat the game.

We are shaping young kids to be leaders in their communities and also to be healthier.

Galley Molina's a great inspiration and role model for a lot of young kids out there.

People should look up to me. Young kids. I am a good role model. I'll show them how men should really be. And kids can take note from that. I am a good role model. Lots of kids look up to me.

I think, for me, I've realized the responsibility of being a role model for young kids everywhere.

I just talked to a young lady, a freshman at Santa Barbara. She's taking a course, and Moneyball's one of the required readings. This young lady could dream of one day becoming a general manager.

The sudden death of the leading man will cause change, making another man leader. Soon, but too late, the young man will attain high office. By land and sea, he will be feared.

If you're a young man, and you're being coached by someone like Guy Lewis, you're going to become a better man.

When I was a young man, I used to dream maybe someday I could be an alderman. Instead of that I became an attorney general, a senator, a vice president, a Democratic nominee.

Lives that are so conspicuous have a claustrophobic feeling. Once you're in charge of running a country, you're under scrutiny all the time. That's a trap.

Remember: you cannot build a better mouse trap by fixing the old one - NewCo demands active ownership, and that activity is not the sum of doing multiple jobs but, instead, the sum of implementing paradigm-shifting changes that create new industries and solutions.

I feel like it's our job, between me and Jeezy and Gucci - I feel that's who the streets look at as far as trap music. So if it's gonna be saved, we have to save it.

The elite isn't leading anymore. It's trapped.

Find something bigger than yourself and pour every ounce of who you are into it. If that's your family, be the best father on Earth. If you are a cop, firefighter, or a trash man, be the best.

My senior project was about solid-waste management. They nicknamed me 'Trash Queen'.

I don't think Michael Bloomberg would say that his greatest skill is delivering the speech. He would say he's more of a nuts-and-bolts mayor-picking up the trash, dealing with the school system.

We need to understand that in the end, if we're going to make a positive difference in the future, we can't have election cycles where one side, the middle and the right side, they talk trash.

If you believe in democracy, than you can't trash it by being cynical about the people who do democracy: the politicians.

Me and Kobe are always going to talk trash and get into it. But when he talks trash to everybody else, some people tend to shy away.