Quotes About Leadership

As Mike Tyson says, everybody has a plan until they get hit in the mouth. The one thing we know about American presidential politics is you're going to get hit in the mouth.

When Uganda got debt relief in 1999, the first item President Museveni bought was a presidential jacket for himself.

In Africa through the 1990s, with notable exceptions in Senegal and Uganda, nearly all the ruling powers denied they had a problem with AIDS.

I don't care how ugly the stats look. If we're out on top, that's all I care about.

Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.

I liked it when we had ugly politicians who droned on about issues.

Preseason football is hard to evaluate. It's never going to be clean for the quarterbacks. You have to overcome the ugly plays and be productive. It's a component of leadership that is necessary. The guys that make it in the league survive that.

Before becoming a college president, I helped over a dozen organizations find strategies to get through some very ugly crises.

Politics is an ugly and thankless role.

In the cut-throat political system we have in the UK, you have to be prepared to put your head above the parapet and be confident in your ability to get the job done.

In establishing democracy, we have to be sensitive to the regional and national context. Democracy also means to guarantee the rights of the minorities. That's my job as a king. We have for example a Jewish ambassador in the US and a Christian in the UK.

The UK's most forward-thinking employers already know they need to attract, retain and promote the best talent - both male and female.

I will be very involved in Ukraine.

Ukraine is a big country. It is 45-46 million people. It has got a lot of modern industry; it also has a lot of very key resources. There is no reason for it not to be one of the leading countries of Europe.

If Trump's talking to Putin can help end the bloodshed in Ukraine or Syria, it would appear to be at least as ethical an act as pulpiteering about our moral superiority on the Sunday talk shows.

The goal of our actions is and will remain a sovereign and territorially intact Ukraine that can decide its own future.

Putin could no more survive returning Crimea to Ukraine than Bibi Netanyahu could survive giving East Jerusalem back to Jordan.

My goal in politics from the very beginning has been, and will be, the goal of giving Ukraine a chance to finally secure a firm footing in the world as a competitive, independent and real European state.

Right now, my full concentration is on politics in Ukraine, and I feel that the people need me there.

In the worst of our recession, bars were making money. Every bar can make money. If they're failing, it's not because of the president or Congress or Ukraine. It's because of them. And if you own failure, then you'll own success.

We are trying to make politics more open. It became a Ukrainian tradition to make decisions behind closed doors.

If you don't have the necessary inner balance, leadership can demolish you. Today, if you are a CEO by the time you are 35, you must have ulcers. By 45, you must have diabetes. By 55, you must have had a bypass. People say they have had three bypasses, as if it is a qualification.

My father put it right when he said: 'I don't get ulcers. I give ulcers.'

This is the ultimate team sport, and I really feel that the quarterback position is the epitome of that.