Quotes About Leadership

I definitely had very strong male figures in my life, who, when I look back, clearly laid the foundations to who I am.

Dennis Lindsey - if there's anyone who's most responsible for the winning culture in Salt Lake, it's him.

Dr. Buss set the bar high for the Lakers.

The Lakers have always been on the forefront and anywhere LeBron has been, has been on the forefront.

I know the Lakers are gonna make decisions for the Lakers.

Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director.

In GOP land, apologies and resignations are never enough.

Let Rahul Gandhi become PM if he can. We experimented with Narendra Modi and look where we have landed. Let's experiment with Rahul Gandhi, or anybody. It can't be worse than this.

My favorite way to do business is the Landmark Education Forum.

I'm very tough. Come to a council meeting, and you'll see it.

Much responsibility rests upon the shoulders of the song leader; it is not infrequently within his power to make or break a meeting.

I arranged the first meeting between Ariel Sharon and the settlers.

I can't count the number of times I've sat in a meeting where it's been 20 men and me.

It is important to have face-to-face meetings, so when the players have things on their mind we talk. It is important to have a good relationship with your players. If they like you and love you - and the other way around - you will be successful.

These two staples of work life - meetings and managers - are actually the greatest causes of work not getting done at the office. In fact, the further away you are from both meetings and managers, the more work gets done.

I can remember having meetings with my coaches when things were going bad. I told them, 'Hey, we've got to be positive. This is the time we need to step up. You've got to make sure they know everything is going to be okay. Keep teaching. Once they see you are down, you lose them and that can't happen.'

I feel like I'm part of history being made. I leave Apple board meetings thinking, 'I've got to do a better job.'

I know in the business world, some women won't speak if there are men in meetings for fear of being seen as too assertive.

I hate having people sit in on meetings.

I don't do meetings.

Board meetings should not be for the benefit of the board. They should be for the benefit of the CEO and the senior team.

The relationship between me and President Mandela right at the beginning was not a very well-established relationship. It was based on two meetings.

I can't tell you how many meetings I open up with, 'My voice is last.' I don't want anybody to hear my opinion before I hear everybody else's opinion.

The fact is that a woman who aspires to be chairman of the board - or a member of the House - does so for exactly the same reasons as any man. Basically, these are that she thinks she can do the job, and she wants to try.