Quotes About Leadership

I don't think I'm a very good businessman. I act too much with my heart.

Good work is always done in defiance of management.

Reading a book about management isnt going to make you a good manager any more than a book about guitar will make you a good guitarist, but it can get you thinking about the most important concepts.

The extraordinary business does not require good management.

I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.

A good leader is always looking for people smarter and more experienced than they are. If you are the smartest one in the room, then you are stupid.

Having a personality of caring about people is important. You can't be a good leader unless you generally like people. That is how you bring out the best in them.

And I think that a woman as chancellor can also serve as a good example,.

I don't think it's a good idea to plan to sell a company.

Good ideas are the backbone of good government.

You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job.

When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.

The quality of a good leader therefore is his vision, tenacity, and his capability.

Good businesses can survive a little bad management.

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Entrepreneurs are great at dealing with uncertainty and also very good at minimizing risk. That's the classic great entrepreneur.

People are not in a good mood when any politician's face appears on television.

I always thought I could coach. I just thought people were poor judges of good coaches.

Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.

Young people in the business have grown up and made the wrong decisions, or bad decisions, and haven't been good role models. To be someone that people look up to is important to me.

To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.

To have a successful team, you have to have great players of course - but you have to have good personalities and good people as well.

On a good team there are no superstars. There are great players who show they are great players by being able to play with others as a team.

[Good managers] know that people have 'good' sides and 'bad' sides and that the secret of good management is in magnifying the former and toning down the latter.