Quotes About Leadership

You don't really want nonagenarians as heads of organisations which are trying to do something useful.

Debating clubs among boys are very useful, not only as affording pleasant meetings and interesting discussions, but also as serving for training grounds for developing the knowledge and the qualities that are needed in public life.

I am a son of my nation. It does not matter whether I am prime minister, a soldier, or a policeman. The main thing is to be useful to the people, that I can look into people's eyes, and that people see that there are real benefits from my activities.

Most consequential choices involve shades of gray, and some fog is often useful in getting things done.

Specialized management courses are useful but should come well after the complexity of management and business are understood.

When you work for somebody who is very technical, and understands and has creative solutions to your problems, it spurs you along and stops you making excuses for things. And I found that very useful.

Putin is sometimes described as a revanchist, seeking to recreate the Soviet Union. That is a useful shorthand, but it is not really accurate.

It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world.

Am I as experienced, or mature, or smart as others CEOs? No probably not, but there's something, I think, very useful about having a founder as the CEO.

I loved my time in Congress, but people who spend all of their time planning to run for office have very few useful skills to deploy when they finally get there.

When I was CEO, and I'd listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration from it. And a lot of things in hip hop are very instructive for being in business. Particularly, hip hop is a lot about business, and so it was very useful for me in any job.

How do I use my platform? How do you join in a way that is useful and not distracting and not shining a light on you?

Persuasiveness is really just about getting your ideas across without being forceful. It's a skill that can be learned and is useful for anyone who works in a team environment.

Technology can be useful to organise a large number of people online and offline against the common goal of getting a particular dictator out of power. But at the end of the day, somebody still has to run for president with a different last name and deliver for the population.

Those of us who work in politics can only make ourselves useful if our heads are filled with things that we can contribute to the political space.

One of the things I love about Fox News is that it looks at something and tries to figure out how it can be useful in the journey and bring everybody else along and lead the way.

I think it's very useful when you want to be the team who create. You need to create this superiority at the back when you build up using the goalkeepers.

Circulation of the ball is important, but it's only useful if you can give it to someone who can make the difference.

I want to be useful for the team, depending on whatever position the coach chooses for me. That's the spirit I've always had.

The democracy we are constructing must be able to show its usefulness and relevance.

If two men on a job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, then both are useless.

When people say the U.N. is useless, I ask the question, which U.N. are we talking about? We have the U.N. that is a secretariat led by the secretary general, and we have a U.N. made up of member states who give us our mandate.

If I am incompetent, I am useless, the people of India will see that.

I think we were all initially swept along with the Obama win, but he's proven to be simply a set of teeth, and useless in every other regard.