Quotes About Leadership

You cannot just allow your team to stink.

Practices for me, when your team is not going really well, it can stake a lot of stink out of the air.

When I'm stirring a saucepan, I don't say to myself, 'Now the chancellor is stirring a saucepan.'

When I founded Stitch Fix, I wanted to create a company that I would want to work at for the rest of my life.

John W. Snow was paid more than $50 million in salary, bonus and stock in his nearly 12 years as chairman of the CSX Corporation, the railroad company. During that period, the company's profits fell, and its stock rose a bit more than half as much as that of the average big company.

The day I was announced as CEO, I think the stock dropped another 20%.

We're very much focused on full shareholder-value return. We have to get our stock moving. But I won't do something in the short run that I don't feel is right for the long run. That, I've watched many CEOs do.

I know it's a stock answer, but besides acting, I'd love to produce and direct.

If you want to make short-term profits from the stock price, then I am a very bad president. But I don't think I'm so bad for maximizing the long-term value of Nintendo.

The guy that just arranges things so that the stock market holds up is nobody in my - in my estimation.

The stock market has an insidious effect on C.E.O.s' moods, because of its impact not just on their companies but on their own bank accounts.

I won't lie, I stole a lot of ideas from Giampaolo.

I have not committed any crimes. I have not stolen any money. I have not looted state resources.

I make the decisions nobody else has the stomach to make.

Churches need to be intentional about reaching the next generation by creating templates for young people to see that there is a stepping stone for leadership in this church.

We're looking for people who want to be part of something bigger. We don't want people who see us as a stepping stone.

By 1993, the Stone Roses had become this huge, beautiful cruise ship just floating about in the middle of nowhere with no captain.

General McChrystal wanted to be on the cover of 'Rolling Stone.'

When you look down in history, whether it was The Rock or Stone Cold, they are the perfect example that you can be given the ball, but you then have to run with it.

I've worked with Terrence Malick, Werner Herzog, Olive Stone and David Gordon Green, and Damien Chazelle on 'First Man.' When you have someone at the helm like that, they're gonna make something great.

In a nine-piece-band is one guy gonna call up eight guys and have a 45-minute discussion about every decision? No. So things are a lot more democratic in Stone Sour. Plus, we're closer and it's a lot easier to communicate. In Slipknot that's the big problem - communication.

Pioneers will always get the stones, when everyone later gets the accolades.

While the Beatles always had George Martin around to clean up their act, the Rolling Stones had Andrew Loog Oldham to coarsen theirs.

It's good fun, making a solo album, because there's perhaps songs that wouldn't get used for the Stones or any other kind of outfit that I'm working with. It's just nice to be the boss.