Quotes About Leadership

It's not a big deal for me to be leader of the Green Party. It is a big deal for me to represent the voters of Saanich-Gulf Islands.

My aim was never to seek a force and take power.

A lot of people - a lot - have urged me to seek political office. All kinds of different jobs. Everybody has got a different idea for me, except all roads lead through my wife.

I lead by example. Everybody sees it.

A lot of entrepreneurship is seeing the future in a way that no one else sees it. Then, it becomes about execution and doing what it takes to succeed.

The coach needs to understand, when he's not teaching something the right way or he sees something wrong, he's got to be able to admit to his mistakes.

I see Modi like Gujarat sees him.

In order to get better, you've got to give to your team. If you give to your team, everybody sees it, everybody feels it, and it makes the next person next to you want to give to you.

I know the first female astronauts selected were definitely an inspiration to me, and so maybe I will be a role model.

The better I am, the better the team is, so you should want me to be selfish about how good I am.

When you're the younger guy, you're kind of only looking after yourself. Obviously you have to be a bit selfish in terms of what you're doing. But when you're the older guy you have to look out for the younger guys as well. If they're making mistakes, they need help, then you help them.

When women say no, they are immediately seen as selfish and not team players.

I'm trying so hard to win or make the right play or whatever, that you know, it kind of comes off as being selfish, but I'm not, I'm just used to being the guy.

We are losing the democracy that we're trying to sell in the Mideast and everywhere else right here in our own nation.

I own every share of my company, and I don't want to sell any of it.

I'm not good at selling laptops. I'm good at selling ideas.

In the Senate, I will put people before politics.

If I wanted to be president of the United States, I'd run for the Senate in 1986. And I'm just not going to do it.

I didn't get to the Senate by accident.

The U.S. Senate already has one Arlen Specter too many.

I'm interested in being part of a majority in the Senate.

I'm president of the Senate. I'm not a neophyte when it comes to understanding political alignments and misalignments.

There are times where the dysfunction in the Senate just goes too far.

Our responsibility is to focus on the House. The Senate's the Senate.