Quotes About Leadership

You never want to be in a position where you can't make payroll.

I will not be in the position of having management dictated to by labor.

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

Not my power, but the power of the position, a power which could be used to help.

It's an honor to be chosen to serve as Mayor Hancock's deputy mayor. This position comes with great responsibility, but should the need arise, I know I am up to the challenge.

Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right.

I'm now the elder in the position of doling out wisdom and trying to mend fences.

You do everything you can to be successful. You know that you have to win games. It's a must. So you do the things that put your guys in the best position to be successful schematically.

You've got to have one of those guys on your ball club that, when you have runners on scoring position, you know that guy is going to drive the ball and put the ball in play and pick them up.

Defensive midfield can be the one position that's easier to play as you get older.

I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction. It's a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through.

In any leadership position, you're always going to be disappointing somebody.

Well, I have an interest in power. I have an interest in people who find themselves in the position to exercise absolute power.

I do work really hard to be nice to people. Well, actually, I think it doesn't take much effort to be nice to people, so why shouldn't we all be nice to each other? But I do appreciate very much a woman who is in a position of power who is unapologetic about her position and her belief in her own abilities.

One of the things that I'm trying to do is use the position that I'm in... to encourage the next generation of girls to think about the Internet as a career opportunity.

I think there is a lot of experiences you have in coaching, and if you learn from the experiences as you go through them, whether it's as a coordinator or position coach, a quality-control coach, a head coach, whatever it might be, and you learn from those mistakes you make.

When you're the opener, you're the guy getting the crowd warmed up. But when you're the headliner, you're the main dude. People come to see you, and you have to deliver. It's a cool position to be in.

Georgia is in an enviable position today, but we can't rest on our laurels.

A director should be in a position where he is only directing. On the sets, he is only looking at the performances, thinking 'How I am going to shoot this?'

But it's true, it's nothing new that decisions about what movies are to be made, and how they're to be made, and who's to be hired to do what, and whether you hire somebody to do their job, or whether you hire somebody to fill a position and you tell them what to do.

I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone.

We're not paying attention to the fact that Hillary Clinton is running in 2006. Everyone is looking to her for the future. It's the same with anybody else who's positioning themselves.

The reason that I like 'Game of Thrones' is because it's based on all these royal families. And it's cutthroat - just like hip-hop. It's all about positioning and figuring out who's going to last.

I was in the hockey team in school, played football. One of the challenges for me was to make the team feel better. It helped me evolve, so batting at different positions was never a problem.