Quotes About Leadership

I am strongly committed to evidence-based policymaking across government.

Someone like Boris Johnson is reluctant to answer questions about ambition because then the story becomes all about his ambition. Sure, he's got ambition - that's no secret at all. But also, he's very strongly motivated to try to get the kind of Brexit he believes in.

Yes, I do bring something of my own to the plate. But I strongly believe that a film is a director and writer's vision.

I feel very strongly that the country needs dedicated people who have passion... rather than those who are in politics only for a career.

I strongly believe that producing and directing will not go together. If you want to be producer, don't direct.

While most become star struck by A-list actors, you'll only see me in awe of leaders effecting change. Politician and diplomat Madeleine Albright, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. These are my heroes. These are my celebrities.

I am struck that so many of our leaders in the U.S. forget how strong our country can be.

I was pretty young when my father was prime minister, so it wasn't really a big part of my life. My folks were away a lot, meeting foreign dignitaries and that sort of thing, but it never struck me as odd. If anything it allowed me to get into all sorts of mischief.

We need to go faster on structural reforms in France.

I pushed the process forward by saying, 'We should do this, this, and this right now. Please find the budget for me to find a structural engineer, a mechanical engineer, a civil engineer, so we can do the preliminary work.'

Don't be a bottleneck. If a matter is not a decision for the President or you, delegate it. Force responsibility down and out. Find problem areas, add structure and delegate. The pressure is to do the reverse. Resist it.

Engineering didn't take to me. And what saved me and kept me in college was I ran into ROTC cadets who were in a fraternity called The Pershing Rifles. And I found my place. I found discipline. I found structure. I found people that were like me and I liked.

I try to grow my management team as entrepreneurs, make the structure decentralized.

The church wasn't an organization in the first century. They weren't writing checks or buying property. The church has matured and developed over the years. But for some reason, the last thing to change is the structure of leadership.

As a leader, you sit at a different level of perspective from your team, either with line of sight higher and across the organization structure or connected at more senior levels with your clients and partners.

Every entrepreneur, whether man or woman, should start with a robust business structure.

Young film makers should learn how to deal with the money and learn how to deal with the power structure. Because it is like a battle.

The BJP's central leadership needs to recast the party structure where you openly speak of Hindutva and Indianness.

Any business or club has to have a hierarchy. Everybody needs to know and understand his role in the overall structure. Bayern Munich is no different.

I have been a firm believer in the federal structure of our country as enshrined in the Constitution.

A lot of us have jobs where we need to give people structure but that is different from controlling.

It's not just the war itself. It's what you do after the war and what structure you put in place and how you make that structure work.

But getting your party structure right may also be a precondition for getting your policies right.

Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.