Quotes About Leadership

It was easy for Sanford to have a bully pulpit as governor. It's another thing to be in the trenches, having to face leadership, and say, 'No, that's not a conservative position, that's not what we're doing.'

Look at all of United's successful teams under Sir Alex Ferguson and their captains were all big personalities: Bryan Robson, Steve Bruce, Roy Keane, Rio Ferdinand, Nemanja Vidic. You would follow them all into the trenches.

There is a lot of noise out there. I don't want to follow the trend - I want to create the trend.

We trendsetters, not trend sweaters.

Being one step ahead of a fashion trend is not so important to me. What matters is to always forge ahead.

For years, Republicans have effectively outsourced their thought leadership to the loudmouths at the end of the bar. But perhaps the most extreme example of that trend has been the issue of guns, where the party has ceded control to a gun lobby that has built its brand on absolutism.

Normally, Indian companies follow the trend set by companies abroad. There is usually a long lag period.

I think it is very important to learn to say 'No.' I think it is sometimes important for brands or the creative director to learn to say, 'This might be on trend, but it is not right for us.'

Someone gave me great advice. That when you're looked on as a pioneer, or you start a trend, you're not always going to benefit from it.

Faith in technocrats over politicians is not a trend from which Britain is exempt.

You cannot change strategy due to a trend.

Whether you lead an early-stage startup or a well-established company, it is critical to challenge yourself and your team to prepare for the next disruptive force - be it a shift in the market, a new consumer trend, or a competing innovation.

I've always felt that's something I'm capable of doing - setting up a trend.

My goal is to spread ideas. Trends always start at the top.

My advice to young film-makers is this: don't follow trends, start them!

Successful artists don't follow trends; they create them.

Trends can tyrannize; trends are traps. In any creative industry, the fact that others are moving in a certain direction is always proof positive, at least to me, that a new direction is the only direction.

I like to believe that I got my business knowledge from my dad. He was able to see trends a long way off. And my mom is very good with people and emotional.

Girls always make our music go. They set the trends. It starts with the ladies.

California starts a lot of trends.

Whether they're for good or bad, all trends in the United States start in California.

I'll let others worry about what is trendy. When I was a player I wasn't a fashion item, I was someone who got the job done. I hope I'm like that as a manager.

If Bush and Blair are eventually put on trial for war crimes, I shall not be among those pressing for them to be hanged.

Most people don't go back to trial work after being in management, but I couldn't do anything else.