Quotes About Leadership

I consider myself a persuasive person. With the ability to persuade comes a certain level of power.

Germany's Angela Merkel exudes an atmosphere of elderly exhaustion and pooped-out pessimism. Britain's David Cameron, though by nature exuberant, feels he has to look and sound glum. And France's leader, Francois Hollande, seems determined to drive every successful businessman out of the country.

Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.

People don't like to follow pessimists.

Vermonters often ask me whether I am pessimistic about the future of our country. My honest answer is that I am not.

There's something exhilarating about being in the mountains and talking about management and the future with Peter Drucker.

Peter Kaplan was a giant.

I decided that I was going to leave State House, and I was going also to step up and step aside so that I give President Peter Mutharika an opportunity to run the country without my interference.

I don't hate Peter Robinson, and I don't think Peter Robinson hates me.

When I got my overall deal at Fox, I got amazing bosses in John Landgraf and Dana Walden and Peter Rice. For the first time ever, they said, 'Don't change who you are; be who you are. And write something you want to watch.' That thing was 'Glee,' and it took off from there.

I've always been petrified of working for a boss who I didn't like but who I was in fear of, because I wanted my salary.

Let us be bold enough and free enough to follow the great examples - the men of good will and honor who put aside little ways and petty hatreds to build the American dream.

I have two little boys, and I want them to feel like this is the nation that I know. That this is the nation that isn't petty.

I never said finish the Congress, because the opposition is needed... I do not have such petty imaginations.

I don't want to be one of those bosses... taking credit for phenomena that are out of my control.

I'm a phenomenal fan of Elon Musk. I think he's the greatest. He's a disrupter, and I think he is a great marketer. And I love him.

I think Hillary Clinton is a phenomenal woman, and I've gotten to know her, and I think she's made some pretty major contributions over the course of her life.

My dad was phenomenal. Born in Mexico, lived poor, didn't graduate from college, and becomes head of a car company and then governor of a state. I can't imagine I would have ever thought about running for office had I not seen my dad do it.

I absolutely love Oprah Winfrey. What a great woman and a great businesswoman. She seems to really campaign for an expansion of global consciousness. I think she's phenomenal.

You can have a phenomenal technology with bad people; you're not gonna have much success. You can have mediocre technology with great people; they'll figure out a way to make a buck.

Daniel Bryan had the 'Yes' Movement. That was phenomenal.

In fact, when I began selling 'Phenomenal Woman' T-shirts on International Women's Day last year, the campaign was supposed to run just through March, for Women's History Month. At the time, I hoped to sell around 500, maybe 1,000 T-shirts in total. We ended up selling 2,500 T-shirts on the first day alone.

I think 'Shoe Dog' by Phil Knight is the best memoir I've ever read by a business person.

I think any time you have Phil Jackson involved in any organization, you're going to definitely look at it, and it's definitely intriguing. The Knicks are definitely a place where anybody would like to go.