Quotes About Leadership

Oprah Winfrey gives you the stage? Shut your mouth. I said, 'I'm sorry for taking over your show.' She said, 'No, that's why we have you here.'

I think I'm decisive, and I like to get things done quickly. So if that comes across as intimidation, I'm sorry to hear it. But it's more in the interest of getting things done.

I'm sorry: I'm a businessman. I'm not a politician.

I am sorry to be leaving the post of secretary of state for Scotland.

I think it's time that we said to people who are incapable of acknowledging that they've ever got anything wrong: 'I'm sorry, you've had your day.' Unelected, unaccountable elites, I'm afraid it's time to say, 'You're fired. We are going to take back control.'

Have I made mistakes in my many years of political activity? Of course! I am sorry and regret them.

I'm the manager of Cardiff City Football Club, and I'm not to lay down and feel sorry for myself.

I'm going to be direct with the players. If they don't like it, then I'm sorry.

Donald Trump proved you need a businessman to run things, not just someone who is a career politician. I'm sorry, but to me what do they know?

Andrew Symonds went on TV to criticise my leadership. I'm sorry, but he is not a person to judge anyone on leadership.

If you want to work as a head coach and to lead a group of people there is no option to feel sorry for yourself or to complain about fate conspiring against you.

It had always been about America, but now, sorry, they lag behind us. English football's time is coming.

I think most people realize that our problems are our government, not me and you individually, except that we can - must have some sort of responsibility, because they're in there and they were elected, so we have to defend ourselves on those lines.

I would not want to live in a country that would have me as a leader in any sort of political bent.

The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc.

I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities.

In my position when things are going well it's pretty easy to say that I'm sort of the guy that fixes everything. But if things are going bad then I'm the one that gets all the blame. In the end, we all do it together.

The country has sorted itself ideologically into the two political parties, and those partisan attachments have hardened in recent years. It will take an extraordinary event and act of leadership to break this partisan divide. I thought 9/11 might provide such an opportunity, but it was not seized.

At a certain point, you have to take the rearview mirrors off the bus and focus forward, and that's what we've sought to do.

Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.

It is no secret that I believe my son, Attorney General Beau Biden would make a great United States Senator - just as I believe he has been a great Attorney General. But Beau has made it clear from the moment he entered public life, that any office he sought, he would earn on his own.

Politics in Slovakia had long been a battle between egotistical men. Caputova sought to be the anti-ego alternative.

I personally believe that the office of the President of India is not to be sought. It is to be offered.

Since Kennedy's death, the nation has not seen, in any of his successors, his cosmopolitan intellectualism or the oratorical eloquence with which he sought to lead the nation by the power of his words.