Quotes About Leadership

President Obama celebrates diversity, yet instinctively seeks common ground and builds on that common ground to make progress.

We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.

Optimism is infectious, and opportunity irresistible. Progress follows progress. Someone, even government, just has to get it started.

I've, we have in this state, like many other states, we're experiencing an enormous budget deficit that we're trying to grapple with. But we will have progress despite the deficits.

He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.

If you have a great culture and you're progressing the right way to win I think players will always want to come.

If you'd asked me at the start of my career I would have said I was going to be a manager. I may still be in future, but there seemed to be an expectation it was a natural progression for me.

It's all about controlling the huddle one play at a time and knowing my assignment, knowing my progression and where I've got to go with the ball.

Our government has been pro-poor, progressive, and people-oriented.

The common man is sick of rising prices, growing corruption, lack of jobs, and on various other counts. They know that the United Progressive Alliance government led by Dr. Manmohan Singh is not capable of delivering, and hence, they want to get rid of this government.

The other states look to New York for the progressive direction.

In my state, the Republican Party was the most progressive party.

I've been an executive and a progressive executive with a record of accomplishments.

Progressive politics in America is an organizational disaster.

You can be both progressive and want to get things done - they're not mutually exclusive and that's what I bring.

We can dig ourselves out of the ditch that the progressives and Obama-ites have driven us into.

It's not enough just to elect people of color and women of color and progressives. We need to make sure that they have a work plan and that they are - continue to align with the communities that helped get them to where they're at.

I thought as a young coach, there were times when my head coach might have prohibited me from moving forward. I always said if I am ever in that position, I'll do anything I can to make our guys move forward.

Bad leaders believe that they have to project control at all times.

What people admire about Prime Minister Modi is that he is an ambitious leader who is trying to elevate India economically, and enlisting all Indians in that project will make it more successful.

The more senior your management position is, the more important it is to connect the organization or the project to the outside world. You know, how does this fit in with what we're doing? What is the real goal, the real mission?

When you take a director off a project, that makes a person feel humiliated because everyone knows it. But we're responsible because we put them in that position.

When I did a high-profile project, I was not the developer of it.

If you cannot be on the project each day to check on things, then you should not try and be your own contractor.