Quotes About Leadership

I'm a conservative, and I'm a compassionate conservative. And I think it's important that Florida continues to move in that direction.

I think it's important to move people beyond just dreaming into doing. They have to be able to see that you are just like them, and you made it.

The United States is a strong and ardent ally of Israel. The fact of the matter is that friends can disagree. I think what's important is that world leaders are able to sit down with one another, have frank conversations and move forward.

In our administration, we're going to follow the law, and any policy that we move forward will fall well within the law and the Arizona Constitution.

We began Sundial Brands as young entrepreneurs, and as we move forward towards our goal of becoming the number one global family company serving our communities in a way that is aligned with their needs and our core values, we will always be entrepreneurs.

I think we have a good foundation which Mr. Lee Kuan Yew laid down, but you have to move forward. Now the question is what can Mr. Lee Hsien Loong and his team, and all our younger ministers can do now to build on the foundation which Mr. Lee Kuan Yew has built.

If the government shuts down, nothing happens, and we all move on, because it just doesn't matter. Stasis in the government is actually good for all of us.

The decision to leave a company you founded and move on to a new project is never an easy one.

You have to accept the fact that not all your decisions are going to be right - and when they are wrong, you have to own it right away. I try not to have an emotional connection or investment in the decisions I make so that when they need to change, I can quickly move on to: 'How do we fix this?'

In short, I have been a trendsetter. I have then moved on and people have followed in my footsteps.

I'm a child of the Civil Rights Movement.

Among her many accomplishments, my mother is often identified as the leader of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday movement.

You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one flippin idiot.

I've been a very effective leader in the gay rights movement, though at times I've been controversial.

You can't do the same thing every day with the horse. Because they then know the thing inside out, and they're leading you, not the other way round. You don't want them to take over. You have to be able to ride the movements and set the movements up; you don't want them starting before you are ready.

Movements live on a day-to-day basis.

What I see around the world are movements around people like Macron in France and Trudeau in Canada.

Fortunately, the leadership of black immigrant communities has always been present in all black liberation movements from leaders like Marcus Garvey to Shirley Chisholm to Malcolm X and Harry Belafonte. We know this is our legacy.

Successful movements also need an organisational model that allows them to keep growing.

I'm always a fan of good business moves.

What I will say is that business is not a nice area. And you might say that I am a business woman, but I'm not into cut-throat business moves.

My idea is to make moves to bring chess back to the world's map, to make it part of the world's geography again.

There's a lot of buzz words in the business world these days - Design thinking, innovation, fast-failure, disruption, cross-functional leadership - and at the heart of every one of these concepts is the ability for people to make small moves forward, learn, iterate.

I'm not in charge of making moves, you know. I'm in charge of coaching.