Quotes About Leadership

The people of Haiti have always called me Papa Doc. I was first their doctor. Now I am also their president for life.

NFL leadership has hurt Papa John's shareholders.

Everybody you see around me, they're kings. Every last one of them. I ain't the only one that got paper.

When I became CEO, Puma was bankrupt on paper.

The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, and I read all of these paperback biographies until they were dog-eared. The story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Madame Curie and Martin Luther King and George Washington Carver and on and on and on.

As for leadership, I am the kind who leads reluctantly and more by example than anything else. Someone had to be on the incorporation papers as president.

Paperwork will ruin any military force.

No matter what's going on, on the leaderboard, you have to know that par is a very, very good score and just keep playing.

Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

I definitely didn't want to be that person that came out and was like, 'O.K. I'm going to lead every parade.'

President Karzai was an accidental president. There was no paradigm for the conditions he faced, because no one could have imagined 9/11. He had to improvise under very difficult conditions to hold this country together.

Instead of looking to male mentors, saying this is the paradigm of a candidate and it looks like this, we're suddenly finding that there's some powerful female mentors - and they look a little different.

There is a paradox in politics that what it takes to get elected is not necessarily what it takes to govern, and my feeling is that trying to control things too much feels icky to me.

We must face up to a difficult paradox: The U.S. can maintain a leading position in science only by giving up its desire to be number one.

One thing that everybody told me about directing was, 'Never compromise'. And the whole job is a compromise. So it's very paradoxical. How do you not compromise when the whole thing is about compromise?

I see a lot of parallels between my father and Donald Trump.

There are just so many parallels between sport and business.

The BJP simply does not want Andhra Pradesh to become the number one state in all development parameters and Naidu getting credit.

I will continue to believe that Israel's security is paramount.

Every coach is paranoid.

I find Trump to be like a parasite.

I don't mind giving 5,000 pardons a day.

George W Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd, a moron, if you'll pardon the expression.

When you look at the Nixon pardon, the short-term gain would have been never to pardon him.