Quotes About Leadership

I have no people reporting to me and don't expect to. My competency is in the tech realm.

Even when the nation's leaders acknowledge tech issues, details are lacking.

The best thing women in tech can do is to invest in other women.

The tech industry should make bold commitments to address pressing societal issues.

Daniel Ek, the C.E.O. of Spotify, is a rock star of the tech world, but he is not long on charisma.

The paradox is that Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, and all the tech giants are bigger fans of music than some of the executives working at major record companies.

Back when I was a student, I had Steve Jobs over to my house for a fireside chat with the GSB High Tech Club.

I spent most of my career in hi tech, not in politics.

I want to become an entertainment, tech, and business mogul just in general.

Paul Otellini, the former CEO of Intel, I worked with while I was still with VMware. I knew Ram Shriram through the tech industry.

Being a female head of a successful tech company means that I'm in a pretty niche category.

The tech industry's love for scrappy, accessible founders adds to the pressure. You're expected to lead by example, to roll up your sleeves, to know everything going on.

I usually float between the tech and the business sides of the office.

We're creating this new breed of techies who are going to be the ones starting the tech companies of the future.

We need to have women as role models, both inside and outside corporate America's leading tech companies, leading the path for other women.

I always talk with my technical staff before I announce a squad. I have always done that; I am changing nothing.

Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure.

The technical director's role is very important - not just on contracts, not just on signing players and seeing through the philosophy but also in taking a bit of weight off the manager.

The best advice for a first time CEO is make sure you have built a strong technical founding team, and then launch!

Do whatever you're directed to do, and leave the rest of that technical stuff up to the director.

Look, you need technical skills to run a company.

A lot of directors in television have come up through the technical ranks. They have all the technical skills in the world. They're not all that familiar with actors.

Especially if you don't have a job that's providing fulfillment in your technical expertise, there is a lot of reward to working on a very smart and demanding community that will respect you and will give you leadership and authority based on what you do.

I actually think that working in the federal government, or state or local, is one of the most significant things that a technical person can do.