Quotes About Leadership

If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.

Any politician is to a certain degree a mentor. They preach something.

My manager always preaches golf comes first.

If we can take Harry Reid out, we can take our country back. I'm not here to preach to the choir. I'm here to organize the army.

I've done admin work, preaching and teaching, youth ministry, marital counseling, etc.

Some of the best leaders in the world find they learn something every day to be a better leader. Whether it's developing a relationship, learning what someone likes or doesn't like, putting forth the extra effort so guys understand you do what you preach.

You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.

Most churches are run by preachers who went to seminaries, who decided to be preachers when they were 18, 19, 20 years old. These preachers never met a payroll. They don't know how the world works.

The most famous Obama precept is, 'No drama.'

Scouting ought to be about building character, not about sex. Period. Precious few parents enroll their boys in the Scouts to get a crash course in sexual orientation.

There's precious little incentive to try and make it in the world of management - and that's especially true in England.

The American Right has an amazing ability to lionize leaders whose lives are the precise antithesis of the political values that define their image.

This is precisely why you choose to run for office and get elected. You're asking the people to let you be their voice. I don't think there is a more powerful and intense experience than the opportunity to be the voice of the 307 million people living in this country.

Boris Johnson needs to be challenged, with passion, heart and precision.

The lesson of the last year is this: foreign policy can't be managed through the politics of personality, and our President would do well to take note of an observation John F. Kennedy made once he was in office - that all of the world's problems aren't his predecessor's fault.

One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'

Business leaders should provide expertise in service of our country. My predecessors at GE have done so, as have leaders of many other great American companies.

We must never take the public's trust for granted - our predecessors worked hard to earn it, and it is our responsibility to continually earn that trust.

I come from a state where four governors have gone to jail since I've been alive. Two of my last four predecessors in this seat went to jail or are going to jail.

I think that if we don't get these politicians to come together we face the most predictable economic crisis in history.

When NBC bought USA and SCI FI in 2004, Jeff Zucker put me in charge of USA Networks. We did a lot of research to find out what was working and what wasn't, and we actually had to hear a lot of things we didn't like. USA was predictable; it was boring.

When they have the lead, you don't want to fall into too predictable counts because they're playing with house money at that point. You want to try to be creative and keep them off-balance as much as you can.

I've never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.

The reality is that our Founders always predicted that one day there would be a president like Trump, and that's why they designed the system of government the way they designed it.