Quotes About Leadership

I saw Al Foster with Miles Davis the other week. It was beautiful. But, the whole thing was, Al Foster played as well as everybody else, but all of them were quite brilliant under Miles Davis' direction.

When you play with Miles, you are on your own, and then it's you who decides what to contribute.

I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.

I went out to the desert where Cleopatra camped out with her mercenary army. It's a desolate outpost. Nothing has changed since her day. You realize how far she had to travel. Not only is it a good 150 miles against the current, you can't take a ship.

Miles Davis is a major influence of mine in terms of the way that I am as a bandleader.

I am a leader, so leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.

Female politicos mostly represent a rather militant faction.

Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.

Most people associate command and control leadership with the military.

I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro.

Military leaders aren't made. They are born. To be a good leader, you have to have something in your character to cause people to follow you.

To avoid a military conflict, Saddam Hussein has no other choice than to leave the country.

My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel.

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.

It's clear that the United States has more to give the world than military bases.

Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.

I've never met a general yet who could milk a cow.

Will Generation X and the Millennials do a better job running the world than the boomers have? Let's hope so.

Above all, we want Millennials to realize that they can have an impact on the world and that, in the course of empowering others, they can also empower themselves.

You can't build a strong future for millennials or young people just based on social media. If so, they'd be all secure with Mr. Trudeau, who is very good at social media.

Charles Miller cannot bring down my government.

From Rebecca Miller, I took the idea that the director needs to arrive every day an hour ahead of everyone else and walk through the entire day.

22 million new jobs under President Clinton. 3 million lost under Bush.

My first choice was to work it out with Larry Brown. I needed Larry and I gave him 50 million bucks. This is a situation that I'm in and I'll handle it and I'll make it work.