Quotes About Leadership

I always want more. I always want my team to perform to their best.

I think a director is hugely responsible for the fate of a film, so if it does well, he should be appreciated. As an actor, I can only perform well or choose to work with a good director in a good film.

I accept that responsibility and ask only that I be judged by my performance as its chief executive.

I've performed pretty well in the games I've captained Australia in and hopefully I can keep it up.

And at the same time, you are of course a performer, but it's very important that you understand that your role as a performer is to get the best performance from those wonderful colleagues that you have the chance to work with.

The more accountable I can make you, the easier it is for you to show you're a great performer.

Am I a frustrated performer? My wife would say I am! I guess there has to be something of the performer in you if you build a global business.

We aspire to be a top performer in every area of our business, and that includes leading in the communities where our employees and their families live and work.

In elementary school, I was always writing little plays for my friends to be in. I was much more of a director than a performer.

Conductors are performers.

I'm from the school that great performers and great leaders create more great leaders. Give people other experiences, other responsibilities. Have them join organizations within the company and outside the company.

You have to think, 'What can I do to help my team develop, grow, and become better performers?' rather than, 'What's in it for me?'

We are not only one of the largest investment firms but also one of the best performing.

My job is to make sure we keep performing.

For example, I wouldn't hesitate to sit somebody down if he wasn't performing, even if he was the No. 1 player in the world. I've been sat down before.

I have Chinese blood in me... I am not ashamed to admit that perhaps the great leaders of our country all have Chinese blood.

Perhaps the most satisfying thing occurred when Michael Jordan became a team owner and said to me, 'I owe you a lot of apologies. It's a lot harder to run a team than I thought.'

Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.

I think that the 21st century will be feminine, that it's women who will, perhaps, find a way out for this world.

I wanted to be mayor, but my party didn't want me. I was perhaps too liberal.

If you're going to invest in something over a long period of time, that you believe is important and can change the company, you have to be strategically patient and tactically impatient.

We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded.

I look at Rafa Benitez in his time at Liverpool, he had difficult periods and the same goes for Brendan Rodgers in the same job now. These difficult periods come and you have to accept that. I did as well as I could at Newcastle.

AMD's history is we've always had great technology. We've had periods of time where we've done really, really well, and we've had periods of time where we've done not so well. But most of the time we've done well, it's because we've had a leadership product or some technology where we were out in front before anybody else.