Quotes About Leadership

Everything I have experienced and learned in football led me towards one day becoming a coach.

There's no better inside player than Nancy Pelosi, and I don't have any animosity towards her.

As I say to our own team: 'Never protect your past, never define yourself by a single product, and always continue to steward for the long-term. Keep moving towards the future.'

As an American people, what is greatest about our history are the many times we have led this world away from hate, towards hope.

I have struggled in life and this has made me sensitive towards the needs of others. Politics gives you the opportunity to really do something.

I'm getting more towards that point where I'm ready to kind of pass the torch on and see the next generation succeed behind me.

I find it obvious that, in a first-past-the-post electoral system, we need to head towards the centre.

Initially we both did a bit of everything towards making each game but as we began to hire people and the business grew we naturally went in different directions, and away from the coalface of development.

There are people who kind of gravitate towards running politics based on new ideas and issues, and that was what the secret was for Clinton.

I'm definitely moving more towards directing now.

I worked in IT, which is all boys, and I was the queen of the boys. That's what I did. I was the one who knew where the paper towels were, which was very important. And I organized happy hours and things like that.

I tried to convince those guys at the Bullets in the '95-'96 season that they could try to beat the mighty London Towers, who won everything the year before. I got out of bed every day with the mindset of getting the team to Wembley for the play-off final and to win the championship.

We must always strive for greater heights at the town council level to continue building the public's confidence in alternate political leaders.

I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the work of a President is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town.

Throughout my life, I've always believed that the sole purpose of public service is to improve the lives of the people around us. From the Freeport Town Council to serving as Speaker of the State House, I've kept that sense of purpose close to my heart - consistently and passionately asking myself how we make progress.

I might have made more money if I had outsourced to India, and I knew I'd find it easier to hire senior managers in London. But I wanted to be in Stoke. What could be more satisfying than creating work for 3,000 people in my home town?

Politics is still the No. 1 sport in town and the scoreboard shows the U.S. attorney's office leading.

You can be president of the United States and have the best, most bipartisan-seeming idea in the world. But if it doesn't have a constituency, you might as well be town clerk of Toad Suck, Arkansas.

Growing up, I never imagined a girl from a border town could one day become a governor.

Say what you will about him Ed Koch is still the best show in town.

Few Americans have ever met their Congresspeople. They don't see them at the grocery store; they don't meet them at the bowling alley. They're more likely to see their representatives in photographs from the Daily Grill in Washington, D.C., than at a local town hall.

Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking people, regardless of their beliefs, should practice.

It does not matter whether I am in Hong Kong or Sao Paolo - people always want to talk about toxic bosses and what to do about them.

Never tolerate a toxic person in your organization.