Quotes About Leadership

When you get to play with the big boys, your game improves drastically.

Your job, as a head coach and general manager, is to listen and not bypass any opportunity to help your team improve.

God calls us to care for our fellow man, especially the neediest. I feel that call to lift up the less fortunate; the call to improve our communities and our state. It drives me to serve Louisiana as governor.

When you're younger, it's about, 'How can I get better? How can I become the player that I want to be?' As you get older, it's, 'How can this football team improve?' While all along getting better along the way.

If you listen to Giuliani, it's like nobody did anything to improve the city except him. I'm not part of the history. Bloomberg's not part of the history. It's like, he did it. He's the only one. That's why he's a little crazy.

You have to have an idea of what you need to do, what needs to be fixed, what can be improved, what we should now imagine together which we didn't previously imagine. And having thought of it, decide to go it. And that's the government's role.

I developed the armed forces, especially in a way that improved living and working conditions. My record is there.

Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.

Assuming the chairmanship of ASEAN isn't going to do anything about improving the lives of people.

Since your company is the product that makes all of your other products, it should be the best product of all. When you begin to think of your company this way, you evaluate it differently. You ask different questions about it. You look at improving it constantly, rather than just accepting what it's become.

Jurgen Klopp has the gift of developing clubs and improving people.

Improvising political dialogue is not easy.

Washington's impulsive use of power is a danger to America and to the world.

Cheney, Rumsfeld - they were Shakespearean in their attitude of impunity.

The loudest voice in the room doesn't always work. In fact, it usually grates to the point - to the point that when you really need to be loud, nobody listens.

One person can make a difference. In fact, it's not only possible for one person to make a difference, it's essential that one person makes a difference. And believe it or not, that person is you.

He who allows me to rule is in fact my master.

In my opinion taking charge of a well-prepared team is not a big job.

I get involved in the beginning, less in the middle, and very much at the end.

I'm very disappointed in Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks.

In the end, as a leader, you are always going to get a combination of two things: what you create and what you allow.

In the end, what brings civilizations down is when the elites lose confidence in the rightness of their cause.

In a corporation, there can only be one guy in the end: the CEO.

But in the end our government usually - not unfailingly - is responsive to the people; and usually - not always - will try to do what is right.