Quotes About Leadership

I never wanted to work for anybody else; I always wanted to be my own boss.

The idea of directing my own movie is definitely more challenging than choreography.

When I work for someone else, I always make money for them. When I back my own ideas, I am bound to lose.

So even when I am not around for many, many generations, I will continue to motivate a lot of people... Wherever my soul would be, it will give me a lot of satisfaction that people will be talking about me and following me in their life.

I look back on my career and my time as commissioner with great fondness.

I have been called brave in my time, but brave as I may have been against foreign invaders, I have no heart to shed Filipino blood.

As a wife, daughter, friend, and the founder and CEO of LearnVest, my schedule is anything but simple. But I learned early on how meticulously manage my time.

Thinking back to my time in the U.K., before the election and then working in the British government, the thing that has really driven me is this idea of giving power to people and taking power out of the hands of those who try and grab it all for themselves.

I try to compartmentalize as much as possible, and I have the most amazing team in the world. They really set up my time in a way that is completely efficient all the time.

I spend my time being a retailer, not an economist.

My favorite part of the experience of serving in Congress is knowing that my time and effort are spent for the greater good and for the betterment of our nation.

I was fully aware of the challenges facing London before I was elected as mayor, but I didn't anticipate the issue that is likely to define my time as mayor - Brexit.

I focus a fair amount of my time on ensuring that we have a good funnel of females coming into the company and then that we're retaining that as well and making sure that we have comfortable environments for them to be successful in.

I knew Jurgen Klopp from my time in Germany.

I have to bring my A-Game 24/7, between creating, draping, and overseeing a myriad of different brands.

Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.

Part of debunking the mythology of filmmaking is that we tend to want to locate it often in one person. And it's not one person. It's a collective, and it is a collaboration.

In general, I have a lot of issues with the mythology of the founder.

Bozoma Saint John

The West is pathetically naive about Russian reformers. We long to believe they are real liberals, but no liberal will ever rule Russia.

If you're conscientious of where your team is, and the opportunities and what's available to them, I think you'd be naive - I don't think anyone would believe you - if you said that you weren't aware of it.

Being a president is an impossible job - it's naive to think someone can do the job and not bend the law here and there.

It was really hard for them to intimidate me. They felt I was intimidating. One of the growers had a name for me: I think it was 'dragon lady' or something like it.

Martin Luther King didn't know he was going to have a day named after him; Muhammad Ali didn't know he was going to be the people's champion. He was doing what he was doing because it was right.