Quotes About Leadership

Your goals should be to have the system work for you instead of your working for the system! Be the hammer - not the nail!

If we believe in a democratic system, we have to accept the will of the people.

On healthcare, climate change, nuclear disarmament, gun control and countless other issues, President Obama consistently made difficult choices and put the national interest over his own political interest to do what was right. All the while, he resisted the politics of cynicism in a system that too often encourages it.

I counted on sixty days only, but I held out for 133. I didn't go into power, but to get power I borrowed some power from the President and made him sign a number of decrees and give me enough power to create a system capable of handling crisis situations.

Only a cheap politician, greedy for political gain, would try to single out one individual for blame. The fault lies not with the individual but with the system, and that system is Richard Nixon.

I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.

I came into American politics and into this political system proud of politics and the way we make decisions.

I think that's the responsibility of the CEO and the CEOs below me: to make sure that we're constantly putting people in places where they have the opportunity to develop into those careers but also having a rewards and recognition system that allows a great programmer to stay as a great programmer.

I have run a general election campaign pregnant and ran Ed Miliband's leadership campaign commuting to London with a new baby so I already have my system set up.

Under the French system, you have to take into consideration that every five years, the president is directly elected by the people. He's the one that has the legitimacy.

Business is the systematic playing of games.

If we're going to change leadership, we need to do it in a very systematic and organized way.

Trump is a systemic stress test.

This is about systemic, institutional corruption, not personality. To ask the Democratic leadership to clean things up would be like asking the old Soviet bureaucracy under Brezhnev to reform itself. It ain't going to happen.

The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic change was possible.

I know John Lewis was a man of deep faith and I pray that his spirit will always guide us as we continue the work of systemic change. He charted a path for us. May we all commit to walk in his footsteps.

True enough, Trump is a formidable foe, and systemic inequalities and disparities are worsening under this administration. But they existed long before that. And I want to lead, organize, and legislate to disrupt these disparate outcomes.

It's the reckless ideas put forward by the NRA's leadership, and pushed through by fearful legislators, that have allowed systemic gun violence to expand, wreaking havoc on communities of color for decades.

What's important at the grocery store is just as important in engines or medical systems. If the customer isn't satisfied, if the stuff is getting stale, if the shelf isn't right, or if the offerings aren't right, it's the same thing. You manage it like a small organization. You don't get hung up on zeros.

Like feminism, I want to create systems and structures for the equity for all people, especially girls and women.

She's called the secretary, but as far as I can tell she basically runs the school.

I have a call from Wade Trainer on the office public line." "Put him through." The voice of the militia leader came over the speaker. "Is Jack Brandt there?" "Yes," Jack growled. "I guess you're not so smug now." "I never was smug. Get to the point.

However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.

It's not what you tell your players that counts. It's what they hear.