Quotes About Leadership

Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That's not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That's not leadership. That's abandoning our middle class.

These rules of Saama, Daana, Bheda are all ineffective. You must use the fourth one, Danda.

Benazir was Prime Minister; she had taken the oath of office in a bright green shalwar with white dupatta, the colours of the Pakistan flag, and made the men around her look like pygmies.

It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.

As a woman, my style defines my leadership. It's a gentler, more compassionate approach. I consult, I listen and I compromise where it's in the best interest of the citizens.

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Coach John Wooden [UCLA] taught me that sports wasn't just about making us better athletes, but about making us better people. Compassion, kindness, and morality were more important than a championship season. Fame wasn't an accomplishment, it was an opportunity to show our gratitude to the community that we are a part of by changing it for the better.

I wanted young men who wanted to play for UCLA, and not one that I had to talk into playing for UCLA. I always believed that the way to build a great team is to find the kind of people you want to work with and tell them the truth.

There was work for everyone to do, even the women—especially the women. They had to adjust quickly to the sudden absence of fathers and husbands and sons, to the idea that things would never be as they had been. They had no vote, no straightforward access to political discourse, no influence in how the battles were waged. Instead they took control of homes, businesses, plantations.

Managers get interviewed for jobs, but I think it should be the managers who are interviewing the chairman.

I get the team set up good and then I'll let them do their thing. At the end of the day, if you put the time and effort into interviewing and finding the right people for a job, you've got to let them do that job.

If you want to attract executives who value diversity, then build a system that leads to diverse interviewing teams without 'tokenizing' people.

I used to say in interviews that I don't necessarily want to be the first black woman or first model to do certain things; I just want to see it done.

Directing can be very lonely and quite intimidating.

A strong, powerful, successful woman is always intimidating.

I think any director is intimidating.

The future kind of gets less intimidating when you're the one shaping it.

For too long, Gov. Cuomo has led with fear, intimidation, and bullying.

There's nothing more intoxicating than doing big, bold things.

I've always been intrigued by the Senate, and admired many of the people who have served there.

We are now living in a post-Roosevelt, post-Reagan universe. What comes next will not be post-partisan, because faction is an intrinsic human impulse.

I'd definitely like to give back. I know a lot of kids watch college wrestling, and a lot of kids watch me, want to meet me and introduce themselves.

Anybody who asks for democracy to be introduced should respect the results of democracy.

Yes, I introduced the congressional pay cut bill, cutting our salaries by five percent. And I think we have to lead by example.