Quotes About Leadership

When I checked into SEAL Team One many years ago, one of the things that I noticed was there was this old guy, who was younger than I am today, who I decided that I was going to be like. I wanted to emulate what he was doing, and one of those things was he got to work before anybody else.

Individuals move and shift from one party to another simply on their aspirations for office.

The achievements we forge in this place and in our nation will not be those of one person or one party.

I think it's important to not just have one party rule.

The BJP is going to do well. We will be the number one party as people have blessed us.

One thing my dad's always told me about leadership is when all hell's breaking loose, everyone's looking at you to see how you're handling it. If you're frantic and out of control, they're going to be frantic and out of control. If you're calm, cool and collected and doing the right things, they'll follow you.

One thing I always do in the huddle, pre-snap, is make eye contact.

Of one thing I am certain: we are foolish if we think we will achieve change by sending the same crowd of people back to run our government again and again.

One thing I like to tell founders is the more you talk, the more you have an opportunity to say something that people don't like. Talk less, and it will probably be better.

Prescott Bush was himself a president of the U. S. Golf Association at one time - 1935 - before he became a U.S. senator from the state of Connecticut.

We went bankrupt one time and lost everything. When I tell that story at my Women's Leadership LIVE conferences, people are shocked. I mean, our house was auctioned off and the car repossessed in the driveway. We had to start over again.

I feel like team meetings should happen one time a year, and that should be it.

My deep belief in one word? Dominance.

In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king.

I don't see myself as a one-man show.

I'm not a one-man show. I was never that in my life, and I never want to be that.

Fighting corruption is not a one-night affair.

I can't tell you how many thousands of small moments that I've had with employees in our company that have been nothing more than a one-on-one. I'll see the baggage-services person, he or she is by himself. I'll pull them off to the side and have a 15-minute conversation about their history, their life, that kind of thing.

Sometimes people think it's what you say when you're in a huge group that makes you a leader. But sometimes it's the one-on-one conversations you have with guys individually, just getting to know them. I think I've done that a lot. Not intentionally - it just happens.

Even in a crowded room, likable leaders make people feel like they're having a one-on-one conversation, as if they're the only person in the room that matters. And, for that moment, they are. Likable leaders communicate on a very personal, emotional level.

I want it to be one-sided. I don't want to take any bumps or bruises: I want to go out and dictate all aspects and go out the way I came in. I'm looking to dominate and dictate.

Benchmarking is an ongoing exercise in any company that aspires for leadership.

A president who is concerned about an ongoing criminal investigation is almost inevitably going to do a worse job as president.

Donald Trump's racism is of course an ongoing feature, not a bug.