Quotes About Leadership

At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people.

I do think women avoid power. Power assumes responsibility and accountability, and I think many, many women want to have it both ways.

I can tell jokes. I can talk to the audience. I can relax. I can change my songs whenever I want. I can change the tempos. I can change the mood, because I'm in charge.

I don't play too much into the color game, because I don't want to be the best African American quarterback, I want to be the best quarterback.

Things have to be made to happen in a way you want them to happen. Without management, without the intervention of organized willpower the desired result simply cannot be obtained.

As soon as the boss decides he wants his workers to do something, he has two problems: making them do it and monitoring what they do.

Nobody wants to disappoint the boss and get fired. But if the boss hasn't said this is important, it's going to die a slow death in bureaucracy and that explains a lot of the problems.

When you're running a company, creating jobs is the last thing you want to. When you're running a company you want to employ as few people as possible, and yet you inadvertently create jobs.

You have learn to hire a management team, you have to learn how to manage You have to want success so badly that you learn how to manage.

I would say nobody is perfect. I don't know all the answers. I have don't want to run people's lives and run the world and run the economy. So, my qualifications are a little bit different.

Our presidency is a cut above, we all want the president to be the absolutely finest person and best person that we could elect, but even at that, presidents are not supposed to be unapproachable.

The way [Donald Trump] is dealing with this now is to say (paraphrasing), "I don't want these A-listers here. I'm not asking these people to perform."

Barack Obama wants to be the power figure, he wants to be the face of the Democrat Party going forward.

That's what world leadership is: A willingness to point at bad guys and say they're the bad guys and to keep the bad guys from getting worse! That's leadership. Obama didn't want to go there.

The Republican Party is in a predicament that it made itself. It made its own bed, and now they don't want to lay in it.

"Just give your life to us and stop worrying about things," is what Obama's message is, and people don't want to do that.

The time is going to come when [people] are going to really regret this, and they're gonna want to be within [Donald] Trump's orb at some point, 'cause this country's gonna take off.

This country's gonna be rocking, this country's gonna be cooking, this country's gonna be sizzling, and everybody is going to want to be close to [Donald] Trump.

Barack Obama is not the kind of guy we want in the Oval Office leading America. We do not want somebody who doesn't like his own country, for whatever perverted, convoluted, stupid reasons.

The pioneers take the arrows. And when you're at the top everybody is gunning for what you have and what you want, and that's just part of the territory.

I think win the election big, if she can win it, I'd like to see Hillary Clinton 54, 55 percent because I want her to rule the country.

In addition to relentlessly resourceful, you want a tough and a calm cofounder.

I feel more important to just encourage people to get involved, one way or another. If I can inspire some leaders, that would be great. I don't know if I want to be a leader.

I'm the mayor, I can do whatever I want until the courts tell me I can't.'