Quotes About Leadership

I think that the larger and more complex the business gets, I have to listen twice as much as I speak.

The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.

When I see all the boys in the top jobs across our leagues, I'm like: 'Oh my God, the only woman sitting on top of the pile and I'm only there twice a week!' It's brilliant!

Leaders are people we as followers want to regard with awe as the fullest flowering of our own possibilities.

Building human-centered organizations doesn't imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don't want to be nannied.

Old fashioned as it may seem to some, it is my duty to serve my country. And I didn't seek this job but I want to do it, and I will do my very best.

Money wants no followers.

It's nice not to have to worry about constituents, now, I simply do what I want.

He says all the right things, like it's Jeter's team. I want to correct him on that - it's my team.

I believe in open government. I've always believed in open government. I don't e-mail, however. And there's a reason: I don't want you reading my personal stuff.

Nobody really likes to be lectured a lot. And, therefore, if you want to be an effective person, what you don't do is scold the person publicly all the time.

If you've got somebody in harm's way, you want the president being -- making advice, not -- be given advice by the military, and not making decisions based upon the latest Gallup poll or focus group.

You know, I guess I'm like any other political figure: Everybody wants to be loved.

I want you to know that farmers are not going to be secondary thoughts to a Bush administration. They will be in the forethought of our thinking.

You might want to comment on that, Honorable.

So I analyzed that and decided I didn't want to be the president during a depression greater than the Great Depression, or the beginning of a depression greater than the Great Depression.

I'm forever a former president and I understand that, but at this point in my post-presidency, I don't want to be involved with politics.

I am not the German Tony Blair. Nor am I the German Bill Clinton. I am Gerhard Schroeder, chancellor of Germany, responsible for Germany. I don't want to be a copy of anyone.

I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.

I firmly believe that Harper's Bazaar is the star. I am there to make it the best it possibly can be, but there should be no confusion. I want to put Harper's Bazaar front and center.

It's not good to be in a situation where people don't want to direct you or don't want to question something.

A president can be as strong as she wants to be.

The kind of power I want is the power to persuade. But I do not want the power to tell other people what to do.

There is nobody that wants to win more than George Steinbrenner.