Quotes About Leadership

I want to be the most influential champion, in a positive light. I want to change the world.

You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is not ignorant, rule over you.

You have great athletic directors, you let them run it; you keep yourself informed, but I'm not the athletic director. I'm the president of the university.

I concentrated on a lot of things, so very few people saw me as an education governor, an infrastructure governor.

Doing something about infrastructure is something I would like to see while I'm governor.

I think Bill de Blasio is doing interesting housing stuff in New York, Rahm Emanuel is doing interesting stuff with the infrastructure bank in Chicago. I want to go to America to meet with and engage with American mayors.

The man who was known as 'no drama Obama' during the campaign has given us nothing but depleting and infuriating drama since he arrived in office.

Companies are not ingenious, it's the people in them that are.

The most important ingredient for the success of any company is the quality of its people, starting with its leadership team.

You know how it is: when you politicize things, it is not the best ingredient to get things done.

Don't put too many chefs to work. Sometimes they get too involved in the ingredients and are of no help.

I was the eldest of five children, and although I never saw myself as any kind of leader, as the eldest, like it or not, you have some power inherent in that position.

One of the biggest things about being an entrepreneur is discovering your own management style. You can learn from others and try to emulate what they are doing, but at the end of the day, your inherent personality - how you deal with events and situations - comes to the forefront.

There's always been conflict, inherent conflict between players and coaches.

Though there are lessons that can be learned about becoming a great leader, most exist inherently in the bellies of those who lead.

Don't make government work like a business... it's inherently inefficient.

All movies are inherently collaborative, and animation even more so. There are hundreds and hundreds of people involved with an animated movie.

If I'm your boss, and I truly want you to be successful... I'm inherently going to teach you. I'm inherently going to correct your mistakes. I'm inherently going to spend time with you. I'm inherently going to lead you.

I've decided with the full agreement of my wife Sylvia Bongo Ondimba and my children that my share of the inheritance will be shared with all Gabonese youth because in my eyes, we are all heirs of Omar Bongo Ondimba.

You could argue that Barack Obama faced in '08 a situation as bad as any president since the Great Depression. What Obama inherited from the Bush administration, we all remember, was just an absolute global catastrophe.

Barack Obama inherited a bankrupt economy, a bankrupt government, and a bankrupt foreign policy.

I co-managed AOC's campaign alongside Vigie Ramos Rios and also was the one that managed the launch of her initial campaign in 2017.

If a chairman sacks the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well.

Economic growth is the most important initiative every governor faces.