Quotes About Leadership

I don't see myself doing television, but I do see myself directing.

In television, the writer-creator-showrunner is embraced as the creative mind.

Never tell anyone outside my staff that the Submarine Force and the First Air Fleet were responsible for the failure at Midway. The failure at Midway was mine.

When you tell the American people, 'Read my lips. No new taxes,' that should mean no new taxes.

Let me tell you what I literally told every world leader I've met with, and I've met them all: It's never, never, never been a good bet to bet against America. We have the finest fighting force in the world.

I always tell people that you should only hire people to be on your team if you would work for them.

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

It's different to have your head coach be in the offensive meeting room going through every play, every detail to every guy, telling them why they need to run this way or what this concept is.

Sometimes someone telling you what to do, and helping you push through often brings out the best in you.

I don't like to boss people around. I don't get motivated by telling people what to do, I don't take any pleasure in it. So I manage with curiosity, by asking questions.

Because they feel that without them telling you to do this, you wouldn't have had the characters that you have, you wouldn't have the book that you have.

Obviously I like pretty girls, but I'm also looking for someone who can take control. I know guys complain about girls telling them what to do, but I think we all kind of enjoy it.

My job is to do the best possible job for my country, and I wouldn't want someone else telling me what I should be doing in Canada.

Imagine going into an office and telling the staff that they have to follow your philosophy. Imagine the reaction you would get if you said that in any other walk of life. Why would I offer that to my players?

When Labour leadership challenger Jess Phillips urged men to 'pass the mic' to a woman on the top job, telling Sky's Sophy Ridge it would 'look bad' if Labour failed to elect a woman, she more or less admitted not being up to the job.

If I owned a network, I would never let a guy just put people on without telling me who they are.

I'm one of the boys, no better than the last second violinist. I'm just the lucky one to be standing in the center, telling them how to play.

It's not just about a coach telling you what to do and just following it unthinkingly.

I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do.

Instead of me telling them what they need to work on, I wanted to hear from them what they needed to work on.

Kejriwal's only mantra is to tell lies and talk forcefully and repeatedly, but Delhi cannot develop with telling lies.

When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.

As Commander in Chief of the United States Military, I will never send our sons and daughters and our brothers and sisters to die in a foreign land without telling the truth about why they're going there.

I think people are distrustful of politicians and are looking for someone who is telling the truth with no hidden agenda.