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Quotes About Leadership

Control yourselves. Be orderly. Don't blow any of us up. Am I understood?' A quick nod. 'Aye, sir. Bless you, sir.' Startled, Paran's voice sharpened, 'Bless me?' And from the mob of sappers came a muttered chorus, echoing the corporal's blessing. Paran stepped back, struggled for a moment to regain his composure, and then raised his voice. 'No need to rush – there's plenty for everyone.
~ Steven Erikson
Both Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi never ever stop playing for the team. If I were young today, they are players on which I would mirror myself. Players of this level, play for the team. Players that are the best because they prepared themselves to bet You don't see these players going out, on social media, skipping training to be in parties.
~ Zico
I will be a president in a skirt, but I will wear the pants.
~ Josefina Vázquez Mota
You have got Team Sky leading the way on a professional front. They are quite open and have done everything possible on an anti-doping level.
~ Bradley Wiggins
When you trust and have elevated personnel in each department, then the sky really is the limit. If you don't have that trust in the backbone of the project, you may not know what you're making.
~ Lily Collins
Trump shows no philosophical or moral compass and is so divisive that his negative ratings are sky high.
~ Neil Bush
I did an MBA because when I left Skype, I didn't have a clear idea of whether I wanted to create or join a company. But you don't need an MBA to become an entrepreneur.
~ Taavet Hinrikus
CIOs have to be able to lay out a clear path in concert with the business leader - I used to make the business guy responsible for the apps and force them to answer the question of why they feel they need non-standard apps when they know that's how the costs skyrocket.
~ Mark V. Hurd
It took us 200 years to elect the first Democratic woman to the Senate in her own right, and that's Barbara Mikulski. Six years later, we had a grand slam: We elected four new Democratic women to the Senate. Sen. Mikulski now has some company.
~ Ellen Malcolm
I do not wish to slander his name, I think Netanyahu ran the country well but his time is up.
~ Benny Gantz
I'm a control freak. If you're going to slap my name on something, I would like to control it.
~ Anthony Bourdain
If you want to know how Hillary Clinton could try to distance herself from President Obama's much-criticized foreign policy, listen closely to the words of her former top strategist, Anne-Marie Slaughter.
~ Nina Easton
Peoples will be as before, the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds.
~ Henri La Fontaine
There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon.
~ Pat Oliphant
You know I don't really have faith in politicians - this is quite a sleazy business. But there is no law which says that all politicians will turn out to be scumbags.
~ Zac Goldsmith
Sleazy people are always in this business. They run the business, pretty much. There are a lot of barracudas.
~ Nancy Wilson
I sleep very well, although sometimes it's hard to go to sleep 'cos I'm so excited about the business performance review the following day.
~ Alan Mulally
When Apple introduced its game-changing iPhone in 2007, Nokia was caught sleeping on the job. Although it had actually developed an iPhone-style device - complete with a color touchscreen, maps, online shopping, the lot - some seven years earlier. Astonishingly, it never released the product.
~ Noreena Hertz
I wonder how Colin Powell sleeps at night. I would like to have a word with him because he lied. He lied. He lied to me. He lied to my face through the camera at the U.N.
~ Henry Rollins
No day is similar to another, but usually mail is part of my start of the day. Our company never sleeps: we have business in 180 countries, so there are no real mornings or nights.
~ Hans Vestberg
I want to play for England, I wear my heart on my sleeve, and I give it everything I can, not just for me but for my team-mates as well.
~ Steph Houghton
Politicians in Canada should not put their religion on their sleeve.
~ Elizabeth May
Our public schools are an area where I will be rolling up my sleeves and spending a lot of my time, pushing for political will.
~ Michelle Wu
When I produce a record, I roll up my sleeves; I'm not one of those passive guys. I really get in there and make sure every note is measured. I tell the bass player, 'You have to play it like this,' or I tell the drummer, 'It's got to be like this.'
~ David Foster