Quotes About Leadership

I thought I would be Prime Minister.

As far as I know, Kamala Haasan does not choose the prime minister of this country.

You don't try and put rockets under prime ministers.

In years of interviewing presidents, prime ministers and chief executives all over the world, I can remember only a handful of times in which a leader has said: 'I don't know' in answer to a question. Perhaps everyone I have ever interviewed knows everything about everything, but I doubt it.

Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their corpulent princes.

My dream is to turn Europe into 300 million princes.

I'm the Princess of The Authority.

In 'The White Princess,' the women are leading the story, and they're holding everything together. It's definitely a world of women's empowerment.

I served seven years as the chair of the Princeton economics department where I had responsibility for major policy decisions, such as whether to serve bagels or doughnuts at the department coffee hour.

Princeton is no longer a thing for Princeton men to please themselves with. Princeton is a thing with which Princeton men must satisfy the country.

I think the whole system of education would change if I were in charge and had the ability to make changes. I don't think I would keep Princeton exactly being Princeton.

Sports were a big part of my life. I was the captain of the basketball team in high school, and captain of the basketball team at Princeton.

For better or worse, the people who become leaders and decision makers in politics, law and business are going to come from schools like Princeton.

I've had a lot of people tell me they wish I were their principal.

The principal challenge we face is to go up the value- and domain-skill chain and build a strong consultancy front end and, also, to globalize our leadership much more.

What we have found is that we were the principal mediators in many cases between the Iraqis and their own security forces and their own government, and so you have to almost embrace that role.

Muhammad Ali was my idol, and I always say, if Muhammad Ali had told me the exact same thing my mother, the principal, the security guard, my brothers... you know, the same thing they were telling me that I didn't listen to, I would have listened, just because it came from Muhammad Ali.

I don't know how good a principal I would be. I kind of like being the second.

For me, I look at it like if I'm playing basketball at the NBA or if I'm a principal at a school, which is something I would love to do when my career is over, I'm going to find ways to always bring Christ out in my life.

When Shonda Rhimes calls, you feel like you get called into the principal's office a little bit, and you think, 'Maybe I better take that call.'

School grades can help determine how well a principal or school leader is doing, and yeah, you need to have some way to evaluate schools.

I always thought I would probably be a high school coach and a principal and then a superintendent. Then it got way off track and it got into college.

My father, Subhash Chandra Arora, was the Principal at the ABJ School, and my mother was the headmistress.

I love working with teachers and principals; they are my heroes. They are very dedicated to children, and it's very impactful.