Quotes About Leadership

New Zealand, by the way, where I was ambassador, has had two women prime ministers - one from either party.

Bumble is the perfect fit for New Zealand, a country that has always been a world leader when putting women first.

When I was very young and came into politics, I basically thought ideas would do the trick.

The trick to playing Steve Jobs? I don't know.

There's always room for quality players in a team. The trick as a manager is to figure out how to bring the best out of your team.

Football is all about repetition. The trick for a coach is to be innovative when you ask for it.

Coaching in the NBA is a tough trick.

Leadership is not a basket of tricks or strategies or skills that you pull out. Leadership begins with the quality of the person.

Machiavelli had some cold tricks for people who wanted to be demagogues and wanted to take over the world.

Obama hasn't lost his standing because of tricks played by the Republicans. He hasn't lost his standing because the media's not fair to him. He hasn't lost his standing or his approval number because the media spent four years attacking him like they did George W. Bush. This is all on him.

People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.

It's a very tricky relationship, the cinematographer and the director as a woman.

I don't have any tricky plays, I'd rather have tricky players.

When I'm in a tricky situation I often think: 'What would Beyonce do?' It helps.

Yugoslavia was a kind of superpower. Great movies. Beautiful novels. Great rock-and-roll. We became a superpower in basketball. The problem is that people needed to identify more strongly with it after Tito and his awful, tricky way of leading the country.

It's a very tricky situation to be in when you're actually friends with someone but they're also your boss.

I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.

Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness.

Putting people before profits is how we've tried to operate from the beginning.

I can remember the first time I tried to drive into the garage of the world headquarters of Ford in a Camry. It was almost like they wouldn't let me in. They said, 'Why do you want to do that?' I said, 'Because we are going to make the best cars in the world, and we need to know everything about the competitor's car.'

The book is actually called 'A Mentor Leader, a Different Way to Lead.' It really talks about my experience in the way I tried lead our football team, things that I learned from, basically, the coaches that I played for and my parents about leadership. And it is a little bit different, counter to maybe what society says about great leaders.

Martin Luther King, Jr. tried to live his life serving others.

I was very careful to send Mr. Roosevelt every few days a statement of our casualties. I tried to keep before him all the time the casualty results because you get hardened to these things and you have to be very careful to keep them always in the forefront of your mind.

I have never tried to fiddle my role as leader of the city of Sheffield, as an MP or as a minister.