Quotes About Leadership

I want to work with the teachers' union. But as I said out there, we have to put the kids first and we are letting down a generation of California children. It's not acceptable.

A common mistake among those who work in sport is spending a disproportional amount of time on "x's and o's" as compared to time spent learning about people.

My all-time heroes are Thurgood Marshall and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., two men who had to really work to achieve what they did. And I had the privilege of meeting them both.

What you want, as an actor, is a great leader. I can't bear it when I work with a director who is wishy-washy and says, "What did you think?"

A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern. The art consists in making others work rather than in wearing oneself out.

The successful leader must plan his work and work his plan.

I want to direct and work with the youngins and the fabulous actors of today.

Your job as a leader is to try to inspire them to do more work than they've ever done in their life under conditions that they can't imagine.

My work with churches has led me to the conclusion that the single most important element in having an effective and life-changing ministry is to capture God's vision for your ministry."

We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions.

It is vital that government leaders and financial leaders take heed and broaden their horizons, working to ensure that all citizens have dignified work, education, and healthcare.

Business leaders take things far too seriously, and forget that most of the time people spend in their lives is at work, and it should be fun.

In business, as in life, all that matters is that you do something positive.

Allowing my people to have a good work-life balance by working flexibly is very important to me.

Certainly dog driving is the most terrible work one has to face in this sort of business.

The head governs, the heart assists, the body acts.

The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.

The buck stops with me, but I can tick off dozens of very good senior executives that are responsible for hundreds or thousands of people who work for me.

The important aspect shouldn't be whose administration it is, the important aspect should be how does the state of Wisconsin work, what can we do to move Wisconsin forward.

If you work in an urgent-only culture, the only solution is to make the right things urgent.

You know, there has never been a 24-hour period in five years when I have not responded to e-mail at Facebook. I am not saying it's easy. I work long hours.

The things that hold women back, hold them back from sitting at the boardroom table and they hold women back from speaking at the PTA meeting.

The work of a Prime Minister is the loneliest job in the world.

The beatings will continue until morale improves.