Quotes About Leadership

Frontrunners always attract envy, and a desperate campaign to stop them in their tracks.

I'm not following anybody's tracks, I'm making my own baby.

The glamorous side is SUVs, but frankly, the tractor side is where we are number one in the world.

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.

When it comes to international trade, the question is, who is going to write the rules, the United States or China? And my vote is the United States.

My label in Toronto was 'Stand Pat' and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.

I think President Karzai realizes exactly how important it is to strengthen the fight against corruption in the country now, step up endeavors to stop the drug trade and to deliver better governance. He said as much in his inaugural address.

I was the first woman British commissioner, the first woman trade commissioner, so I am also proud to be the first woman High Representative.

President Obama has proven himself to be a terrible negotiator. I don't support any trade deal negotiated by his administration.

Although I am a young leader, I actually came to it strangely quite late. I have a different perspective, partly because of my family, partly because of what I did for ten years: negotiating trade deals, working out in Central Asia doing assistance projects.

The adult way to run a business is to run it more like a country. They have disputes, yet they've actually been able to have huge trade with each other. They're not sending bombs at each other.

To Than Shwe, a kingdom in return for the eternal soul is just the right egregious trade-off. Than Shwe is a general who carries the light of unbounded ambition.

What politicians do is they never get the rhetoric wrong, and the price they pay is they don't speak the truth as they see it. Now, I will speak truth as I see it, and sometimes I don't get the rhetoric right. I think that's a fair trade-off.

When I took over the family business, it had already been a publicly traded company for 20 years. During one of the first annual meetings I attended, one shareholder stood up and advised me and everyone in attendance that I should resign.

We have traded a dictator for a chaos that has left America less secure.

As the founder and former chief executive of two publicly traded companies, I have had a great deal of exposure to how debt markets work.

Lindsey Graham can't lead us in any direction because he traded his moral compass for petty political gain.

If you start becoming withdrawn and looking over your shoulder, being careful about what you say, that's being paranoid. This is an open, accessible team. That's been my trademark for years.

While I sign off on trades or free agents, I've rarely overruled my basketball people's decisions. But I'm not shy about steering the discussion or pushing deeper if something doesn't make sense to me.

The president is the leader of the nation. The president brings people together, does the deals, does the trades, knocks the heads together. The president leads.

General managers - I like to talk about the 'golden gut': general managers that not only can have a sense for the players that are going to perform beyond what people expect and get team chemistry right, but they also have to be able to make trades.

UKIP trades in the language of fear and division; it seeks power in order to reject responsibility.

The country should not have to wonder whether politicians' stock trades were corrupt. It should not have to think about politicians' portfolios at all.

One of the great advantages that I had in my career is I started trading 24 hours a day in my early 20s, and I had to learn to delegate to people.