Quotes About Leadership

Congress is full of good, decent, smart people who have devoted their lives to public service.

I'm smart enough to know to work with smart people.

Elon Musk is a very, very smart man, but there are a lot of smart people in this world, and you've got to execute. He's got execution problems.

I've certainly seen R&D groups, typically funded by large corporations, where they bring together a lot of smart people and nothing happens. And the reason nothing happens is that they don't have a clear goal.

There are smart people on our side of the aisle who have known as early as I did who Obama was and should have been saying 'I hope this guy fails' right along with me. There should have been opposition to this guy all along.

It's this concept of 'just fill up a building of smart people.' It sounds so basic, but honestly it might just be the secret behind Shopify's success. We just do that and get out of the way.

I always make sure I hire people smarter than me.

I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am.

I want to make other people around me smarter and more powerful.

Don't ever be afraid to hire people that are smarter than you. Just because they are smarter than you doesn't mean they have to make more money.

I don't think I'm any smarter than any of my developers.

I need to play smarter and protect the football.

There's an opportunity to make your board - and your company - smarter by adding diversity, especially of gender.

If you can't hire someone smarter than you, do it yourself.

In Joe Yorio you find a guy who's smarter at business than I am. I'm an entrepreneur and idea guy; he's a professional businessman.

Eisenhower was less deferential to the military than he seemed likely to be, Kennedy was not at all beholden to the pope, George W. Bush was smarter than portrayed and Barack Obama has not led a charge from the left - least of all on behalf of the civil liberties that have eroded since September 11, 2001.

Barack Obama is way smarter than Bush - so way, way smarter than me. Obama is way more charismatic than me.

There's smarter people than me. But you cannot have any one guy running 18 billion-dollar businesses. It just doesn't make sense to me. I've met some extraordinary leaders in my time. They struggle with running one billion-dollar business.

We hire people who are smarter than us.

I like making players better and smarter.

When I was a young executive, I was always nervous that my idea wouldn't be great. So I asked around, 'What do you think of this?' That became my filter for whether my idea was good enough. Then I realized it just plain made me smarter.

No way can you ever, ever, ever evidence confusion, concern, lack of understanding. You have to be in charge. You are the guy. You have to be cooler than cool, smarter than smart.

We don't need more government, we just need the government we have to work smarter and more efficiently.

If I'm the smartest guy in the room, I'm in the wrong room.