Quotes About Leadership

There's certain guys who dictate or change the way they play based off who they're playing, and that still may translate to success for them, but the way that I play is, like I say, I'm in the driver's seat.

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I don't want an underachiever working on my car's transmission. Why would I want someone regular sitting in the Oval Office? Sorry, give me somebody who has demonstrated a capacity to excel.

I'll always have a winning mentality in me, and I want to transmit that. I equally feel what the players are feeling and I know them as men.

If you are not able to transmit what you're trying to achieve to your collaborators, you will only have minions - or morons.

People who study the way religions develop have shown that if you have a charismatic teacher, and you don't have an institution develop around that teacher within about a generation to transmit succession within the group, the movement just dies.

I try to transmit calmness and motivation to my team-mates.

If the manager can't transmit his ideas, and the players don't understand it, you've a problem. When your players can follow it, though, you've already won a lot in a season.

A manager can have a great idea but if the players don't understand it, or don't follow you, your idea doesn't have much use. On the other side, you can have a bad idea, but if the players are convinced it, and you transmit it well, it can work.

Avoiding the all-too-typical divisive trappings of a takeover and creating instead a shared transnational culture - this is one of the most important lessons learned from combining Fiat and Chrysler to create FCA.

I believe the processes of good governance have gone astray. Specifically there is an erosion of transparency, independence and accountability.

I find that when you open the door toward openness and transparency, a lot of people will follow you through.

Inclusion and transparency have been mainstays of my leadership. It's about education and reaching out.

Transparency is so important in business.

The country's future is what you will make it. Make your local representatives in parliament and assembly more answerable. Ask for more transparency in use of public funds.

The good parts about being a public company are increased discipline, increased execution and increased transparency to make sure that you are really building a company for a hundred years.

Transparency builds trust and it's critical in a crisis.

Public officials insult our intelligence and our goodwill when they paint rosy pictures about budgets, jobs, bipartisanship, and transparency, and alter their positions on issues simply to keep collecting their paycheck by never disagreeing or disappointing anyone.

The American people deserve to have absolute confidence in their President. They deserve to know that he or she can perform the duties demanded of the office, and they deserve to have full transparency on the mental state of their highest elected leader.

We expect candor and transparency from the president, from the administration.

Things will absolutely go wrong. In a healthy team, as soon as things go wrong, that information should be surfaced. Trying to hide or obscure bad news creates an environment of distrust or lack of transparency.

Fostering transparency and accountability at the Federal Reserve was one of my principal objectives when I became Chairman in February 2006.

In all of our efforts, we continue to emphasize the importance of inclusivity and transparency on the part of the Afghan government and leadership, especially in linking nascent local governing institutions to the decision-making and financial resources in Kabul.

I'm a very connected and passionate founder. And I do model transparency and openness and loyalty in my actions.