Quotes About Leadership

I recognize out of the box that I am not the establishment candidate. There's nothing about me that would have anybody draw the conclusion that I am somehow preordained for anything.

No one man can rise above the masses or the condition of his people.

America may be in a dour condition, but it is not going to elect a dour president.

Sometimes you need to encourage them sometimes even to comfort them, let them know I trust them. Sometimes you need to tell the truth, being more aggressive. That's management. I need to put the players in the best possible conditions.

But I can't take responsibility for criminal conduct of somebody inside the company.

Conducting is way over my head.

I really want to get better at conducting.

The conductor has the advantage of not seeing the audience.

Conductors start getting good when everybody else retires.

I was different from most young conductors today.

Composers are not all good conductors.

I've always been accused of moving around too much when I play concertos. Sometimes, conductors ask me which of us is leading.

I played with the best conductors of the world.

If you're a coach, you've got to have a lot of confidence in what you're doing. Your egos are so large that you know it all anyway if you're a coach.

Without being the most confident person in the world, I think I am the right person for Liverpool.

Young conductors who are confident enough, they very often have success.

I am confident that I can serve my country without being involved as the president of the country now.

I think no commander ever is going to come out and say, 'I'm confident that we can do this.'

During the Clinton administration, America's image was that of a strong, confident and kind world leader.

Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict.

When you decide you're going to be a public servant, you should not be able to take on interests that conflict with the city.

Politicians have conflicting values but not conflicting knowledge.

People have Plato's form in their mind of what a leader is, or what a C.E.O. is, and it is a bunch of elements that I really don't conform to at all. I've given this a lot of thought, and I came to the conclusion that I don't care.

I think the thing that you've seen with Donald Trump is that he doesn't - he doesn't look to the past and say, 'I've got to conform to these precedents.'