Quotes About Authority

If the national coach lets decisions be made from outside, he's lost the team.

I will listen to people, but then I will take very decisive action.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

We believe in rule of law not rule by decree.

My default answer to most of the questions my kids ask me is 'no.' I just start with 'no.' I let them fight for it a little bit.

There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself.

I wish I could say that when I didn't agree with a director I defer to him, but I think sometimes I'm a little self-righteous.

As a company commander you have absolute definitions: the mission, the people.

My mother had a wall of degrees in our house, and she would walk me up to the wall and say, 'When you have this many degrees, you can tell me what to do.'

There ain't no way the state of Delaware is gonna tell me how to sign my own license!

You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility.

All around us, algorithms provide a kind of convenient source of authority: an easy way to delegate responsibility, a short cut we take without thinking.

I believe in decentralized management that includes a lot of delegation, empowerment, and accountability.

As mayor in an executive position, I have to dress more like an executive, which has been delightful.

Chefs love to have that control and power to control the message they want to deliver.

I am extremely, annoyingly compliant. I hate breaking the rules, and I love it when people tell me what to do and I can deliver.

Parents do not have the courage to say no to certain things that their children demand. They are rather scared of their children.

Managers have very tough jobs. I always respected their job but demanded respect in return.

I am demanding.

Leadership demands that we make tough choices.

I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.

We're not a democracy.