Quotes About Leadership

This is a global effort we're going to have to lead to overcome this jihadist effort. It's more than Osama bin Laden. But he is going to pay, and he will die.

We have to overcome the practice of male domination - even though it's changing, and changing in Liberia quite drastically.

When I was 28, running products for a company I'd co-founded, the CEO called to say that I had a problem with the board, that I probably couldn't overcome it, that I'd have to leave the company.

When the world faces its biggest challenges, it looks to Britain to show the strong leadership needed to overcome them.

In politics, exhaustion and attrition need to be overcome, not indulged.

Back in the day, what motivated me was overcoming myself. Now I believe in being a leader. I've done it all - I'm good. Now, it's about setting an example for others to follow. I can't just talk it - I have to live it.

What basically happens is that when a company becomes great, and I'm being a bit rude here, people think they're some kind of genius. So now we can move into all sorts of other businesses because the net bottom line is, it's because we're just geniuses. They become overconfident and expand too far.

I tell my engineers that they should not overload me with information.

That's something that's so often overlooked in this game - the dynamics of the locker room.

You know, you don't need a leader to sort of administer something that's going very well. In fact, in one sense, an overly ambitious person in that circumstance can probably screw it up.

We're not going to change overnight that we have a majority of all white male leaders.

People don't just show up in the C-suite overnight.

Great leadership and great companies aren't built overnight, and they're not built without capital. And capital can sometimes be counter-productive to building a great culture.

You need to have discussions and make sure you guide players towards the collective spirit. It can't be done overnight.

Let me just say this - sometimes being a trailblazer is highly overrated.

To me, leadership is helping people do their best. If you define leadership that way, I don't think it's overrated.

We can put our head in the sand and continue to lose jobs overseas and to other states, or we can say, 'You know what? We are not going to lose another job from California, and we're going to be the very best place to start and grow a business.' So I'll be the chief sales officer for California businesses.

When I see the crumbling roads and bridges, or the dilapidated airports, or the factories moving overseas to Mexico, or to other countries, I know these problems can all be fixed, but not by Hillary Clinton - only by me.

I respect the Congress's oversight responsibility.

I don't have a directorial overview, which sometimes is very helpful.

Some days, I get overwhelmed and a bit breathless... I've probably cried at work, but I'm limited with my crying: I'm the boss; I'm not really allowed to cry at work.

After the 1960s and '70s, there were real doubts about whether a mortal man could handle the country's highest office. It had destroyed Johnson, corrupted Nixon, and overwhelmed Ford and Carter.

Overworked managers are doing things they shouldn't be doing.

If you've got decent people under you, there is probably nothing you can do to improve their chances of success more dramatically than to get yourself out of their hair occasionally.