Quotes About Leadership

If you have a character named Captain America, he is, by default, a political character.

I hired a guy named David Sze to do consumer investing at Greylock. And he went on to invest in Facebook and LinkedIn. So I guess I did something right.

In the House, I was named one of the most bipartisan members of Congress, and that's a title I plan on continuing to hold in the Senate.

Leaders are judged on merit and not on caste or family names.

'Crime Story' was where I learned that I needed to get to know every crew member: what they did and what their names were and who their families were and whatever things they would give me.

It was a great experience to share the dressing room with names like Virat Kohli, M S Dhoni, Rohit Sharma.

I would say for a team to win, you don't need big names. You just need the right pieces.

I think when you get to majors, there are definitely certain names and certain people that you've got to beat, and most of the time certain names and people pop up on the leaderboard. But that's the game, and that's what we're here for.

I got a lot of respect for Nancy Pelosi. I love her. She was a mentor of mine.

I don't think the face of the Democratic Party is Nancy Pelosi.

Well, I think you do have to admire Nancy Pelosi.

No one's ever done what AC/DC did out of anywhere, really. Conquered the world, mate, that was the idea from the start. A little Napoleon in all of us.

I like people who don't accept boundaries. Like Florence Nightingale. And Napoleon or Louis XIV, though I'm not sure how much I'd have liked to meet them. I admire people who aren't circumscribed by circumstance.

I have read loads of books on Napoleon. For him to come from nothing and then lead his country, that fascinated me. It doesn't matter what you think of him. He did it.

Politics has become infused with narcissism in America.

The act of founding a company is its own act of narcissism: 'I alone can do this.'

Modern football is increasingly dominated by the coaches - their narcissism to put themselves above the team and their players.

When you take charge of your own narrative, it gives you a handle on it.

To create a collection, you need a narrative - an explanation to tell the team.

I had a lot of great bosses - I worked for Gina Prince-Bythewood for two years, I worked for Ava Duvernay as a PA on her first narrative film, and I worked with Mara Brock Akil, so a lot of wonderful role models.

From making documentaries all these years, it doesn't feel right to lead someone. In narratives, I'm always trying to shoot as though it's really happening, and I trust my actors are going to make decisions that I'm going to be following. I want to follow them.

We need leaders who appeal to us to think about something other than narrow self-interest but instead focus upon the greater good.

We never try to think in terms of any competitive product or company. If you do that, you just focus on a certain narrow area. Rather, we should think much more broadly.

Our constituents deserve better than narrow-minded political games.