Quotes About Leadership

Once you meet an entrepreneur like Jack Ma, you just want to make sure you bet on him. It's not a hard decision.

Of the fellows least likely to be president, you'd have to vote Jack No. 1.

Where are Jesse Jackson and Rev. Al Sharpton? They don't speak for Black America, and they don't speak for me.

I'm not just gonna go after the black Jesse Jackson they all want to make fun of, but I know the wrong people are gonna laugh at that. I don't want to play to that crowd. I don't.

I have great coaches, but one thing I've never really had is that head coach - a Greg Jackson, Matt Hume, John Hackleman.

Sam Jackson is like the Jeezy of Hollywood: He's for his people.

Jesse Jackson, when I met him, he had an innocence about him which is still very much a part of him today.

I worked in Maynard Jackson's first campaign, and I remember the excitement we felt when he won.

Kerr is great, but I started my career under Mark Jackson, so there's no hard feelings there.

Bernie Sanders is our Jesse Jackson only more so.

James Gunn runs his set like a 12-year-old's birthday party. Every day, he is so excited to come to work.

If it weren't for the mentorship and guidance from people like my mother, James Brown and others, I wouldn't have been able to make something of my life.

I feel like LeBron James is an amazing basketball player, but he's also a community person.

Make no mistake - LeBron James was carrying the Cavs, but Dellavedova was the cinematic element: hustle personified.

I've never seen a player that can dominate a game the way LeBron James can. He don't always have to score. He makes plays for other guys. But when the game is on the line, and you need a shot to be made, he's going to make that play.

I want to hear LeBron James's Uber stories.

There is a lot of energy between Lars and James, and sometimes that energy can erupt. I know that before I was in the band, Kirk was the guy who was often in the middle, and it was important at that time. And now I feel like sometimes I'm the guy that's in the middle between not just James and Lars, but even Kirk.

Jamie Carragher was someone who I looked at as to how to organise, how to defend and how composed he was, how good he was at reading the games and he was one I looked up to.

I'm the ayatollah of the Jane Austen fan base! I want to lead the fan base, not be attacked and devoured by the fan base.

Jane Campion is a tough director.

Throughout my life and career, I have continually been impressed with the importance of integrity - whether it was growing up as a Boy Scout, working in one of my first jobs as a university janitor, or being a leader in a Fortune 500 company.

I started Softbank in 1981, a year and a half after I came back from the United States, after graduating from Berkeley. I wanted to start my own company when I came back to Japan.

SoftBank has had a lot of businesses, but they've always ranked, say, third in Japan or fourth in the U.S.

Japan is a great nation. It should begin to act like one.