Quotes About Leadership

In politics, every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.

I am considering running for Senate, as well as other opportunities.

Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.

There are many people that frankly cannot get themselves to oppose Barack Obama. They make a lot of excuse for him.

I always wanted to be the person to whom people looked forward to give opportunities. As opposed to always being the person who wants to work with others and who is always the backup: where it's like, 'If nothing works out then OK, let's get this person.'

Mark Carney is one of the enemies of Brexit. He has opposed it consistently.

The fact is, I'm opposed to coalitions.

As you get older, I think everyone feels that, no matter what the job: to try a hand at running the business as opposed to simply being an employee.

I always look at it that I work with my employees as opposed to them working for me.

As opposed to journalists, politicians cannot make do with questions. They must also offer answers.

I don't think it is ever enough for a governing majority to simply be opposed to things. We have to be for things.

Obama tried to make deals with Republicans, and I don't think he realized he'd have such an insanely opposing Congress.

In 2014, we were opposing President Xi Jinping. Five years later, we are opposing Emperor Xi Jinping.

Having captained India for long, it is habitual to discuss with my mates and assess the bowling changes, the bowling changes, the field setting that the opposing captain would do.

I've been around Congress long enough to know there are issues we may never see eye-to-eye from the opposite aisle, but we should all agree that our job is to move America forward and benefit the people.

A candidate is not going to suddenly change once they get into office. Just the opposite, in fact. Because the minute that individual takes that oath, they are under the hottest, harshest light there is. And there is no way to hide who they really are.

I don't want anybody, whether it's my grandchildren or any of our employees' grandchildren, to have to apologise for working for Ford Motor Company. In fact, I want the opposite. I want them to look and say, 'What a difference we made!'

Making those around you feel invisible is the opposite of leadership.

There's no wobble in Bush. If anything, the opposite. Right after hello, the next words out of his mouth are: I've never been more convinced that the decisions I made are the right decisions.

I went from such a testosterone-driven show to the exact opposite, because 'Friends With Better Lives' is run by the ladies. I imagine it's close to what being married feels like.

Some magazines are run from the top down, where the editor-in-chief decides what every article is going to be and who's going to write them, and then they're doled out. My idea is to do it the opposite way, to do it from the bottom up.

I haven't been in Washington long, but I have learned that it is a place filled with people who say one thing to get elected and do the opposite once they get there.

People like Mo Ali, Jos Buttler, Ben Stokes, Joe Root, they are looking to take attack to the opposition and that's when they play their best.

It's our job as Liberal Democrats to be an effective opposition - and an increasingly tough one as well.