Quotes About Leadership

I am reproached for allegedly preparing my children, my eldest son, as a successor. I swear to you I have never discussed this idea, even with my family or with my sons.

There are so many little girls who follow me and look up to me. I'm their role model, so I have to make sure I'm always being professional and not putting any swear words out there - just really putting positive things out there on the Internet.

I swear to formally assume the national executive powers as acting president.

Basically, if you become president, you must swear to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution and what the Constitution says.

There are two rules in politics. They say never ever be pictured with a drink in your hand, and never swear.

There are some great video clips of me swearing, screaming at players, but I was also the biggest cheerleader in the league.

If I'm cussing at you, swearing at you, calling you demeaning names, are you really thinking about that last play? Am I really helping you get better? Or am I just making myself feel good by demeaning you? I've really never understood it.

The Senate could use more people who had to sweat for a living and fewer of the politicians who made this mess.

In every team, you have to win the respect of your team-mates, working a lot and really sweat blood.

An artist or a writer can boast about working for himself, but it would be highly irresponsible of a director to say such a thing as the sweat of many people is involved in realising his dream and he should respect that.

I don't like sweating the details, and I'm pretty disorganized. To be a better leader, I need to stay on top of these shortcomings, and being reminded really helps.

Remember one thing - that Sweden is performing better than the rest of Europe.

When I was growing up in the United States and Sweden, I never thought about becoming a politician.

In the sweep of history, George W. Bush will be seen as one of our greatest presidents because of the decisions he made to keep us safe after 9/11.

Some people are a natural administrator. They actually enjoy doing it. I find it a chore. I'm not a details person. I go for the big sweep.

I do think a founder has special permission to make sweeping changes across an organization.

George W. Bush has much to evaluate: he has presided over the most sweeping redesign of U.S. grand strategy since the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

What I did in New York was bring people together, an overwhelmingly Democratic state. But I was able to get Democrats to support the most conservative sweeping policy changes in any state in America.

Both San Francisco and New York are taking bold, sweeping action to reduce emissions, make our infrastructure more resilient and improve the health of our people. We are also leading the charge against those who continue to deny the existence of climate change.

I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance.

Mitch Hurwitz was like a father figure to me. He was so sweet, and he's just so smart.

It is an oftentimes dangerous world, and not all of the people in it are nice, sweet and benevolent. It is the nature of man to behave otherwise, and we must find leaders who can show us a better way and still maintains a balanced view.

When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.

Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.