Quotes About Leadership

I love the ability to work with very good managers, and to provide the right incentives for them, and truly become a partner with that management, and make that management take a long view.

I have a lot of common sense. I know what needs to be done and how to approach it. I have an ability to work with people on large enterprises.

Sometimes I think of myself as a little bee. I go from one area of the studio to another and gather pollen and sort of stimulate everybody. I guess that's the job I do.

Involve people in the problem and work out the solution together.

We must follow the rule: Better fewer, but better. We must follow the rule: Better get good human material in two or even three years than work in haste without hope of getting any at all.

If you're going to get into big time religion, these are the games you have to play. You go into it as a business and you work it as a business.

The only place where compensation comes before service is in the dictionary or anywhere the government meddles.

You must work well with others and be loyal to your team. Disloyalty is the worst of all traits. I seldom use the words "You're fired!" in business, unless somebody is really scum and stole from me.

I enjoy doing motivational talks with businesses and other organizations. I really enjoy being with people and encouraging them in the work they do.

Footballers are more likely to work better if they get a pat on their back from the boss. A knife in the back is never the answer.

If you fail to honor your people, They will fail to honor you; It is said of a good leader that When the work is done, the aim fulfilled, The people will say, "We did this ourselves."

Make sure you are the boss. I don't think I would encourage executives that work for me to blog. There can be only 1 public vision for an organization.

It doesn't matter what party you come from. The key thing is that you work on behalf of the people rather than on behalf of the party.

If you have the ability to work with people smarter than you, always try to be the least smartest person in the room and surround yourself with talent, because iron sharpens iron.

A poor leader will tell you how many people work for them. A great leader will tell you how many people they work for.

If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.

I've been promoted to middle management. I never thought I'd sink so low.

If you work for a team, you have a different view, if you own a team you have a radically different view.

The aim should be to work on the method of management.

In and out of government, I've always been willing to take on complicated, sometimes unpopular, issues and work them through to have a solution.

I sort of kept my hand in writing and went to work for the Sierra Club in '52, walked the plank there in '69, founded Friends of the Earth and the League of Conservation Voters after that.

How can you have a director that doesn't go to work with the crew every day and talk to them?

In the execution of Presidential decisions work to be true to his views, in fact and tone.

By putting people around me who will calm me down and slow me down and make sure I work through an issue.