Quotes About Leadership

Lots of women candidates get compared to one another because there's so few women in office and positions in corporate America.

I think that people who find themselves at executive level positions or get really successful forget that there is nothing they have done that wasn't the result of a lot of other peoples hard work.

Disagreement on issues doesn't mean 'dissension.' All it means is that honest men can differ in their approach. You lay out your positions, and president makes a decision.

I was seeing people of color growing up in my media. I was seeing them in positions of power.

Political positions do not belong to the officeholder; they belong to the people that place us in office.

I don't know how you overcome the dearth of scientists in the government positions.

The school made it very clear that women were entitled to positions of authority. That sense of entitlement allowed us to feel that we have a natural place in leadership in the world. That gave me a mental and emotional confidence.

I'm an advocate for women to become more aware of the different positions in the music industry.

I don't feel political most of the time. Sometimes I'm placed in positions because no one else will go there.

What we need to be able to do is count all human experience. So I would like to count the secretarial positions as good training places to take over the jobs of the bosses.

I think for leadership positions, emotional intelligence is more important than cognitive intelligence. People with emotional intelligence usually have a lot of cognitive intelligence, but that's not always true the other way around.

The double bind lowers its boom on women in positions of authority, so those who haven't yet risen to such positions have not yet felt its full weight.

Criminals gravitate into government positions like natural law.

Russians in top positions always told me, 'We don't want to deal with our allies the way that the Americans dealt with Mubarak,' which is a very live example in the minds of many.

America has a black president, but there are no black studio heads, and there just aren't that many black people working anywhere on film sets, let alone in positions of power in Hollywood. That's what needs to change.

Men need to hire more women and put them in higher positions of power within organizations.

Great broadcasting requires all of us, those who are in positions of power and especially those who are in positions to employ people, to remember you need to look towards the greatest conceivable palate to create greatness.

We know that companies which have more women in leadership positions have a better performance.

I think diversity and having women and people of color in key positions is really important.

I think the more women we have in leadership positions, the more women will see examples, can see themselves in those roles.

I'm a businessman. I'm a former legislator, and I'm an executive. And I've been very effective in each one of those positions.

I don't think sometimes people in positions of leadership in the church really engage gay and lesbian people and talk to them and get to know about their lives.

I really never saw an obstacle for me in taking leadership positions because, in a very ridiculous way, I thought, 'If Mary Robinson can do it then why can't I?'

We haven't always been aware of it, but the 'locker-room bro talk' has long been going on not just in locker rooms but in some corporate conference rooms. Of course, not by all men. But by some - including some who hold positions of power. And that matters in holding women back.