Quotes About Leadership

One of the things I learned at the Naval Academy and the Marine Corps is we have to make tough decisions.

The American people, in their own families, they understand that you have to do that. You have to make the tough decisions. You have to get your budget. You have got to put it in order. And they expect their elected officials and their leaders to do likewise.

Governing is about making tough decisions, but it's also about figuring out a better way to do things.

That's why I made decisions; they were tough decisions but we shouldn't feel bad at all - don't look back with any regrets, that's how I made decisions as governor.

As a legislator, I was elected to make the tough decisions and produce solutions to the problems facing our country.

Commanders-in-chief make really tough decisions.

Dad's such a tough guy.

My dad was a tough man. I think that would be putting it mildly. Short on praise, short on communications. Long on leading by example. Lots of integrity, and lots of passion for things. But he was a tough guy.

I know how to do science. I know how to make things. I don't know how to run a company. Now that's a really tough job.

I would love to become the national team coach. I am aware that it is a tough job, but I spent 15 years with Italy. In my opinion, I have the right experience for this role and I know the environment very well too.

It's a tough job being a politician.

It's a tough job to be the owner in a rebuild, to be the GM, to be the coach. These are tough jobs.

Being a CISO is a tough job. I have the end responsibility for the personal information of over a billion people.

Managing is a tough job. When you're young, you just think it's a natural progression - I'm good at this, so I'm going to be good at that - and it's not that way at all.

I was a hard-times governor. I had to steer my state through the deepest recession since the 1930s. But hey, tough times don't last and tough people do. And can I tell you that Virginians are tough people? We are tough people.

I think too many Democrats are too wimpy. But I think they're beginning to toughen up.

It is sometimes tougher to fight my superiors than the French.

The best, most successful managers in the modern era are those who can keep a player happy even if he is not in the team. Given the size of the squads and the use of rotation nowadays, that's tougher than it's ever been.

There's nobody tougher on the players than me. Nobody.

I would like Obama to be tougher on going up against the Republicans, I don't think he should try to be so moderate.

As a director, you're a bit of a dictator. But I feel that you're a better director if you're open to other people's ideas. It means that it's tougher: you have to be in a choosing process; you have to put the ego aside. As long as everybody's aiming in the same direction... I'm open to my main partners in the film crew.

Politics is a lot tougher than physics.

My generation took on political equality. I believe young people, who have graduated into a poor economy, have an incentive to take on much tougher issues of income equality. If they show the leadership they have demonstrated in the last few elections, they can bring changes even greater than my generation achieved.

If it's a shot for me, if I can make a play, create for someone else, I'll do that. A lot of times you run a play, everybody's watching, everybody's locked in, everybody's pulling over, and it just makes the game tougher for me.