Quotes About Leadership

Francois Hollande is the president of the republic, he must be respected. I want to wish him good luck in the midst of these tests.

Besides being responsible for myself, I'm now responsible for someone else. And I have to set the right examples. I have to really be someone that I would want my child to look up to.

Life is never going to be perfect, as much as we want it to be, and I have to lead by example.

As a people, we know what we can do, we know how to do it, and we just want to get on with it. How? By ensuring that Canada's place in the world is one of influence and pride.

Mitt Romney and I know the difference between protecting a program, and raiding it. Ladies and gentlemen, our nation needs this debate. We want this debate. We will win this debate.

People see me in powerful roles. That's what people want to see. That's what I want to do.

I don't have the advocates. I don't have a good old boys network. Part of what I want to do is to create a good old girls network.

This is the Democratic paradox: You want so much to run America and yet you seem not so fond of Americans.

Now he is a statesman, when what he really wants is to be what most reporters are, adult delinquents.

Successful leaders don't start out asking, 'What do I want to do?' They ask, 'What needs to be done?' Then they ask, 'Of those things that would make a difference, which are right for me?'

There are many wrong reasons to want to be an entrepreneur. I think there's only one good reason: to change the world.

Anyone who wants to be pope doesn't care much for themselves, God doesn't bless them. I didn't want to be pope.

Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that lands like a thud on the oval office desk?

The message of Vietnam is not that Americans will not take casualties; it is that the American people do not want the lives of their sons and daughters wasted.

You don't go into politics unless you want to win.

I think we can all agree [Bashar] Assad is a bad and evil actor, but I'm not so sure that we want the Islamic rebels to be in charge of Syria either.

It's a bad place when you see sometimes how coaches treat people. I don't even want to say players. I want to say people. They're people before they become a player.

Donald Trump is interesting to people. He's intriguing. But they want to see that Donald Trump in the White House. And he's getting there and he's going to pivot there.

There are some people whom I esteem and want their opinion first, but that's my way. It is difficult for me to delegate. In the end, I do have two or three people on my team who I listen to.

Fortunately we're not a public company - we're a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.

And I want you to know that I have no intention whatever of ever walking away from the job that the people elected me to do for the people of the United States.

Let me just say this, and I want to say this to the televison audience: I made my mistakes, but in all of my years of public life, I have never profited, never profited from public service

Every morning when I get up, I ask God what he wants me to do, ask him to lead me to the right people to help them.

Most child welfare agencies tend to embrace secrecy because the people who lead them tend to be mediocre and don't want you to see how poor a job they are doing.