Quotes About Leadership

What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where it's like a coach-player relationship.

I love to have the ball. That's why I play soccer, and we have a great coach who has this kind of view, he sees everything, and I just want to help as much as I can, on the pitch and off the pitch.

I'm enormously proud that I can do a deal with the National Women's Soccer League to showcase the power and passion of women athletes as positive role models, not only for my daughter but also for my son.

I have been involved with U.S. Soccer for 30 years, and I don't remember one senior woman in the organization that you would deal with on a daily basis in a position that was making decisions. That is a huge issue. How many times do you hear, 'There are no women around?' Well, they are fishing in the wrong pond.

I wasn't a cheerleader in high school, but I was the leader of my soccer team.

What soccer and coaching gave me was sort of a stage.

My biggest dream from the moment I started playing soccer was to join the national side. I was privileged to be part of the team and to serve as its captain and there's no greater honor.

My best season at New England was probably my first in charge. We reached the final of the Major League Soccer Cup in 2002, losing in extra time against Los Angeles Galaxy.

Policy makers who have never served in the military continue to use the military to lead social change in this country.

I'm sure my father would applaud the explosion of youth activism that has emerged in response to the gun violence pandemic. I'm certain my parents would agree it is gratifying to see young people leading social change projects in a multiracial coalition.

I want to be a role model and an advocate for social change.

We can't continue with this social democracy here in Brazil.

Your economic and social development is linked to the kind of regime you have.

I acted on my core beliefs on social issues as governor.

My son Emilio is running for Congress to continue the fight for social justice.

Barbara Castle should have been Labour's - and Britain's - first female prime minister. What a role model she would have been: passionate, fiery, and absolutely committed to social justice.

I'll say this, the mayoral position - because of COVID, because of the 24-hour news cycle, because of social media - it's been elevated.

When I talk to CEOs, they're not educated about social media.

The creative destruction that social media is currently unleashing will change more than technology or the leader board of the Fortune 100. It is driving a qualitative shift in the nature of relationships between brands and their customers.

Without question, CEOs, executives and employees in companies in the United States and around the world have rallied to face the challenge of a social media marketplace.

Donald Trump is an extremist leader who came out of nowhere. He's self-financed, recruits through social media, attracts his followers with a radical ideology to take over the world, and is actively trying to promote a war between Islam and the West.

As I review the great history of our nation, community organizers have been at the center of so many of our great social movements.

We make interesting companies and real businesses. It's not social networks for cats.

My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.