Quotes About Leadership

One of the things Mr. Kennedy taught me was that in laying out a new project, you shouldn't try to cope with every little problem.

I'm actually developing a project so that I can have a lead.

Well, I got to have a project. I'm not a blue-sky guy at all. I'd never let anybody like me loose in a company.

When the Americans are behind you, they're behind you 100%, and this gives you real confidence as an architect. They expect you to lead a building project - to make the kind of big and costly decisions that, in Britain, have been handed over to project managers and cost-cutters.

When I bid out our construction projects, I call contractors personally to close the deal and get the best price or enhance the scope of their deliverable. You don't get what you don't ask for.

I was lucky enough to co-found a business in college that ended up with 400 employees, and I launched 20 different projects while I was there - a project a week.

Being in the Girl Scouts took me out of the projects environment and showed me different things.

For me, it's about becoming a mogul, owning my own projects, and establishing myself as a funding producer. That's what's big to me. The movies and all that stuff are great, but the fact that I'm in a position to do what I want to do, however I want to do it and when I want to do it is bigger.

To create a big company, you need more partners, as it is hard to handle such a project alone. Such projects bring access to the expertise and management resources of the partners, and their connections above all.

I think sometimes we in the industry have to do ambitious projects.

Everyone knows of great projects that were too dependent on a charismatic individual, or simply too expensive to be replicated.

I've been lucky enough in my career to work with a few people who are really prolific.

Prince led by example. As prolific as he was as an artist, he was just as courageous in the business.

I'm not looking for people to put that vote on me to be prom king of the UFC.

I've never been interested in self-promotion and that side of politics; and if that means people judge that you're less prominent than others, that's a choice I've been willing to make.

I can do an hour-long speech about Democrats taking African Americans for granted, and I'd have a line behind me of very prominent African-Americans who would say, 'Amen.'

Of course, I'm all for women getting to play prominent parts.

We have realized that corruption is rife, and we are going to address it. We are going to root out corruption, and that is a promise I can make.

The gap in India has always been between the promise and the execution.

I seek the presidency because I believe deeply in the American promise and can no longer accept the diminishing of that promise.

I mean, look, Nancy Pelosi said in the very beginning this is going to be the most open, honest and ethical Congress in history. And what we're seeing is she's breaking that promise every day.

A prime minister must not promise things that can't be fulfilled.

When people campaign for positions, they promise people all kinds of things.

In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.