Quotes About Leadership

I'm troubled by what I see as a sort of rooting for Trump's failure, because that is rooting for our own failure.

I want to make the point that, even though we had a troubled experience, we moved on from that. I moved on from that, to become the first Black congressman, a cabinet secretary. I returned to Mississippi, and I'm now running for the U.S. Senate.

Journalists always want publishers or editors to leave. They're creative troublemakers - that's why you hire them.

Despite PAL's troubles in the late 1990s, we were fortunate to have steered the company to clearer skies.

We may never really know if 2004 Democratic presidential nominee and Senator John Kerry was President Obama's original choice to be Secretary of State or if he settled on Kerry after his first pick, Susan Rice, was forced out by her troublesome career and misleading statements on the Benghazi terrorist attack.

People who join my organization are usually very cool at first, but they become troublesome later.

The thing I know about Diana Trout is that she's the hardest-working person. She even says it in season one - that nobody works harder than she does. I believe that's always been true about her. That is why she has high expectations of everyone around her.

I want to be 'a dude,' a guy that can help the team win. Mike Trout is a guy, Adam Jones, Clayton Kershaw, those are dudes, the big dogs.

I have a truck team for a reason.

I'm the one who gets called up about a problem. I'm the one who gets called up about the street lighting and the abandoned car. I'm the one who gets blamed if the police don't arrive. I'm the one they blame if a city truck is broken down.

I don't drive a truck, I drive a team of footballers who work for a major club like Atleti.

There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.

We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

Stick to your true north - build greatness for the long term.

A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.

I'm a true believer that you have a moral obligation to keep your employees honest, and that is why you have controls, so I'm never tempted or put in a position where I could do something to defraud my employer.

The true character of ministry is a servants heart.

My dad is a true man. A man's man. Every manly thing he does, he does so well.

The true measure of a leader is what it takes to stop him.

The most forward-leaning leaders are single-minded about creating company cultures that foster a true spirit of innovation.

True success for me is allowing players to be better than I was. That is what I went into coaching for and I've not lost sight of that.

True success in the N.B.A., you must have consistency of culture.