Quotes About Leadership

Never burn bridges. Today's junior jerk tomorrow's senior partner.

No one leads the orchestra without turning his back on the crowd.

I often feel like the director of a cemetery. I have a lot of people under me but nobody listens!

Whose merchants are princes.

The way to stop financial "joy-riding" is to arrest the chauffeur not the automobile.

I'd start a business again in a heartbeat. Indeed, I hope that one day I may get the chance to do so when my mission here in Washington, D.C. is complete.

If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management.

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.

Management by results - like driving a car by looking in rear view mirror.

First we build people, then we build cars.

Our objective is to position Nissan in the top rank of the car industry. Until we get there, there will be no rest.

Cotton Owens was leading and daddy was second. They came up on me and I moved over to let them pass. Cotton went on, but daddy bumped me in the rear and my car went right into the wall.

Man, coaching is a hard job, and it requires a lot of time... I hear stories from coaches who tell me that players call them in the middle of the night not knowing where they parked their car.

Those who want luxury cars should buy them at market rates and not ... abuse public funds.

Why would you hand the keys to the car back to the same guys whose policies drove the economy into the ditch and then walked away from the scene of the accident?

I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.

John McCain said that Sarah Palin is still a force in the Republican Party. Then he got in his car and backed over his mailbox.

There are four different cars filling the first four places.

On the dance floor, as much as you say, 'Ladies, you are the car. He is the driver. You can only go where he takes you,' they still try to be in control.

You never want to concede a place, but when you're leading the race or fighting for a podium position you can find ways to make your car very wide!

It is always a great honor to be the driver of your own car, to be the boss of your own fate!

I was Europe's last chance.

Two heads are definitely better than one and by sourcing ideas from each other, you have a better chance of coming up with a strategy that will allow your business to overcome a setback or challenge.

Perhaps the challenge is to invent the political structure that will give conscience a better chance against authority.