Quotes About Leadership

I tell you very openly: it's much easier to be the heavyweight champion of the world than to be the mayor of Kiev.

From the beginning of my administration, I have made it clear that I will budget openly and honestly with the people of Louisiana.

American power in the world relies on these ideals of openness and critical debate.

I'd like to direct more operas.

A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator.

I would like to see whether my supposed successors can really operate the government without causing a crisis.

I think, I want to see a Republican Party that has more folks that, that look and sound and operate like I do.

People invest in businesses that they believe have the leadership, mission and team to grow and operate profitably.

I had a rule - I didn't have a lot of rules - and one of them was we're going to operate from a mutual respect. I won't embarrass you, and I don't expect you to be embarrass me.

If you don't operate it as a business, you aren't going to be around very long.

Obviously I've got a great team of people within the company. You can't operate all by yourself. We have a good board of directors and a big bench, and they can make decisions if I'm not around.

I don't buy this thing that our industry is responsible for all the ills of the world. We have great people at JPMorgan Chase. We operate with a lot of rigor. Our clients are happy with us.

FCA is a culture of leaders and employees that were born out of adversity and who operate without sheet music.

Most audiences are being attracted to '12 Strong' because of what they might expect to see from a movie like this, which is that the Americans arrive, they march into the camp, they take it over, and take charge. It's like, 'Everything's going to be fine now. We're here.' That's not how these guys operate. They're very different.

When I'm in the huddle, it is my huddle, and I mean, that's how it needs to operate.

Dealing with Jazz at Lincoln Center and its board of directors, who are so great, and then seeing how these Rock Hall guys operate, it's like: 'Really?' It seems like they're total amateurs when it comes to doing shows and contracts.

To make our state operate more like a business, we must get a handle on all of our assets and liabilities.

As I looked across the company, there are three things that keep coming up that we need to work on: culture, our operating rigor, and capital allocation.

I love doing deals and operating companies.

I see the government operating the way the founders intended.

Football has done so much for me, given me friends, family, given me life lessons that now I can use in the operating room or just as a leader.

I am an African American public official operating in an environment dominated by Caucasians. That is not too dissimilar from what I had to do in Mississippi to get elected and stay elected. I try to show them we are all in this together.

As I have conveyed before, ultimately I would like to lead a team's basketball operation and be a part of a successful franchise.

It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation.