Quotes About Leadership

I will fight against the division politics of revenge and retribution. If you put me to work for you, I will work to lift people up, not put them down.

We shouldn't leave the work of politics to people who run for public office.

I believe I am a work horse. I believe that that is what our country needs. We need a president who will roll up our sleeves collectively as a nation and tackle the problems that we confront.

I think my husband did a pretty good job in the 1990s. I think a lot about what worked and how we can make it work again, million new jobs, a balanced budget.

I'm bored, I'm the chairman of the board.

You can't be an entrepreneur and work in a public company anymore.

I still feel that the kind of leader I want to be is one that spends time understanding our work in a way that allows me to translate it for policymakers and people who have real access to resources.

A director on a film really sets the tone of how people go about things, so everybody is happy to be at work and everybody does their best.

Presidents always - not always, but often have bad conversations with counterparts. They just don't go out and embarrass their counterpart by talking about it. They find other ways to work it out.

It's great working with directors and with somebody else's vision.

It's much easier to work on other people's music and play in other people's bands as a guitar player instead of being the main songwriter and singer. That's a really big job to do that.

I've tended to work at fast-growing companies that improve the way business gets done.

My advice to women directors is just to make the best work possible.

Transferring successfully to the next generation means producing work that's as good as or better than the work of the first generation that founded the agency.

Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up.

Occasionally [Donald Trump] says things that are too strong and upsets people, and I think he'll work to do better on that.

My role models are Bettie Page and Mia Kirshner. Every day when Mia comes to work she raises the bar for us all.

If you can create an environment where people are invited to do their best work and the best ideas always win, then the project itself will win.

You can work with me—or you can wade through the blood and bodies after I'm done.

I think that Minnesota is different because we are proving that tri-partisan government could work, that you do not need to necessarily be a Democrat or a Republican to be successful at governing.

Wait. You work for me?" "I prefer to think of it as managing your incompetence.

I'm so excited by women right now, not just in America but globally. Women really are coming into their own. We're standing on the shoulders of forty years of hard and messy work.

I hope President-elect Trump will work with me and with the rest of the Senate to try to keep more jobs here in America.

I don't believe in political strategies. I believe only to do good for the people.