Quotes About Leadership

No one is going to stick their head out of the trenches for someone they don't respect or trust. You can get shot doing that.

I love my country. It's just the government I don't trust.

Trust comes before strength, and it becomes a conduit of influence. Your strength is a little bit threatening before people trust you.

I don't trust a system where Putin makes all decisions.

By staying neutral, I end up being somebody that everybody can trust. Even if they don't always agree with my decisions, they know I'm not working against them.

When people in positions of trust mislead us - either recklessly, negligently or intentionally - that impacts the republic.

How do you trust a prime minister who said one thing before the elections and does exactly the opposite after the elections?

I think Canadians want to get a feel for the people who will serve them... and, for me, I think that Canadians will trust people who trust them.

One of our most noble political tasks is to open up trust.

The way you build trust with your team is around super-clear communication in that instant when they say, 'I will be sad if you don't do X.' You have to say, 'We're not going to do X, and here's why, and believe me, you'll be much sadder later if I let you go do it and you spend a bunch of time on it and nothing ever happens.'

Trust me, I've been to countries where there's no government. And our government's pretty damned good.

I love to be directed. They can trust me and go.

I think that winning creates chemistry, as opposed to other way around. I've been on a lot of friendly teams that couldn't win, trust me.

If you will trust me with your vote, you can count on me to take those values to Washington.

I think it speaks a lot to Coach Kidd and my teammates to trust me as a rookie to make plays down the stretch. When they put that confidence in you, it's hard not to try to make plays.

My teammates trust me; they know I make the right plays. I'm not a selfish guy.

It means a lot to me as a quarterback if my receivers think I'm a good quarterback. It doesn't really matter what everybody else thinks, but it means a lot to me when I feel like those guys trust me.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

As a dancer, you really try to stay true to whatever the choreographer/artistic director is giving you. So, now the shoe is on the other foot and I have to trust everyone else - I have to trust the dancer. As I was trusted as a dancer, I trust my dancers.

One piece of advice that always stuck in my mind is that people should be respected and trusted as people, not because of their position or title.

Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.

I put those people in place. I trusted them. I had no idea they would do anything like this.

I'm eternally grateful to fate and the citizens of Russia that they've trusted me to be the head of the Russian government.

When individual members of the team are highly disciplined, they can be trusted and, therefore, allowed to operate with very little oversight.