Quotes About Leadership

Obama might do well to remember that his fast rise from the Illinois state Senate was due in large part to an uncanny ability to make friends and find mentors.

I've had many mentors, but the one that has the most impact was my mother.

Eric Schmidt from Google is one of my favorite mentors. And Eric would always say this very humbling thing that's really true, which is, he would say, 'Good executives confuse themselves when they convince themselves that they actually do things.'

I know I've had many great mentors and role models and guys to look up to; guys I've learned a lot from so I know how to approach being that guy and I've been doing it for a long time.

Some mentors are more challenging than others.

There's just nothing to me so invaluable in my business, but in many businesses, as great mentors.

I don't want a mercenary management team.

The best merchants in the world aren't the ones predicting what's cool next; we're the ones dictating what's cool next.

Whether you like Mourinho's style or not is open to discussion but he has won in different places and this has a lot of merit.

The intelligent ruler makes the law select men and makes no arbitrary appointment himself; he makes the law measure merits and makes no arbitrary judgment himself.

I'm here to govern for everybody and I hope that people judge me on my merits and what I can do.

'The Iron Lady' is not a biopic. Phyllida Lloyd and Meryl Streep coined it 'King Lear for girls.'

I wish I could be as commanding as Meryl Streep.

Don't mess with Sergio Marchionne.

Cleaning up the mess in Washington is gonna take a whole lot of Iowa common sense.

Number One, if there is no America, then the world will be a complete mess.

I want to go to Washington and clean up Kay Hagan's mess.

You don't get a manager's job at a big club unless it is in a mess.

Mourinho was good; a very good family man. If people had children and there were days we had to come in he would let you bring kids in and mess about with them while the training session was going on.

When you are the lead, you feel that if you mess it up the whole film can fall around you.

To President Biden's credit, I mean, he kind of - he says, if you mess up, fess up. And if you, you know, don't have the answer, don't make it up. And I follow that.

Not having an administrator sends the wrong message to the airline industry.

My key message is be innovative, be ambitious; think global and big on day one.

Biden's first day, and Psaki's first day, sent a message that functional government is back.