Quotes About Leadership

If, for some reason, we make some big mistake and IBM wins, my personal feeling is that we are going to enter a computer Dark Ages for about twenty years.

I find more and more executives less and less well informed about the outside world, if only because they believe that the data on the computer printouts are ipso facto information.

Why have computers? Politicians are far more calculating.

The computer actually may have aggravated management's degenerative tendency to focus inward on costs.

Managing senior programmers is like herding cats.

Man should rule with computers, not vice versa.

My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education.

Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

I just think it's good to be confident. If I'm not on my team why should anybody else be?

Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.

I believe that the confidence of Hungary in me is not shaken by misfortune nor broken by my calumniators.

The 3Ss of Winning in business are speed, simplicity, and self-confidence.

Style is when they're running you out of town and you make it look like you're leading the parade.

I've always been supremely confident in my abilities. But the biggest confidence boost is when the guys around you, you feel like they have confidence in you.

A great man is always willing to be little.

Confidence is believing in yourself. Arrogance is telling others youÂ're better than they are. Confidence inspires. Arrogance destroys.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

Do I shout, belittle or swear? No. I have sufficient confidence within myself to control my environment just by my presence, just by working hard and leading from the front.

The team should have implicit confidence in the captain's decisions.

I'm playing one of the principal roles, which gives you more clout and more confidence.

I placed the Marines where the hardest work was to be accomplished, and I never once found my confidence in them misplaced.

Eighty percent of American managers cannot answer with any measure of confidence these seemingly simple questions: What is my job? What in it really counts? How well am I doing?

The trust of the people in the leaders reflects the confidence of the leaders in the people.

Confidence is everything in this business.