Quotes About Leadership

I don't have anything to hide, but prefer to shine the spotlight on others.

There are 14 Cabinet spots, and God only knows how many hundreds of people want them.

A lot of people think the orchestra is playing and the conductor doesn't do very much, but the conductor's the person that gives shape to the music, gets the phrasing, and if he has really fine musicians in solo spots, the question is does he try to help them phrase, or does he let them go?

As China's retailing champion, Alibaba makes Amazon look like a company that carefully picks its spots. Sure, Amazon does e-tailing. So does Alibaba.

It's important for a leader to hear about his blind spots on a regular basis so working on them is periodically top of mind.

I am happy to lose spots on the IPL Fairplay award list, but I cannot see my team slipping on the points table.

I've always believed that. I'm not a guy who comes in with an offensive system, and we try to fit guys to it. I think it goes the other way. 'Here's who we've got. Let's put them in the right spots where they can be productive.'

You don't want to be an iron fist all the time; at least I don't. I like to pick my spots and have a reason for everything that I do.

The beauty of being co-founders with your spouse is that we run our business and family together.

When President Ashraf Ghani gave his 2014 inaugural speech at the presidential palace, he choked up thanking his wife for her support and announced that she would take on a public role. That a male leader in Afghanistan would thank his spouse - let alone go on to promote her work and appear with her publicly - made news around the world.

I don't think I'll be a good mayor if I don't live my authentic life, and that's got to be involved with having fun with my spouse and my daughter.

Maybe I'll create a guidebook for future political spouses: the dos and don'ts in D.C.

I am looking more at being a sports leader someday to have more influence with the youth and to hopefully spread weightlifting across the country.

I am a positive-energy, enthusiasm type of a coach and I'm going to spread that to everybody that will feel it.

When influential people speak, conversations spread like ripples in a pond. And those ripples are multidirectional; influencers inspire everyone around them to explore new ideas and think differently about their work.

Politicians have done some grim things in pursuit of the office. President Franklin Roosevelt was a philanderer; nevertheless, he pushed aides to use his opponent Wendell Wilkie's affairs to hurt him. He even tutored aides on how to spread rumors without getting caught.

When you have to spread heroism across too many players, you don't get to really dig deep into each of them as much as you'd want to.

For me, I see myself as a role model because, everything I do, there is a person somewhere who needs to hear me spread a message of non-violent conflict resolution.

As we've seen time and again, women and girls who are out there working, they are truly force multipliers, spreading opportunity through their families and communities - and not just by creating programs and nonprofit organizations, not just by hiring other women, but also by serving as role models themselves.

The populists are spreading slogans. We have to offer solutions and answers.

Napoleon - the people who were becoming Napoleon's generals realized that for him, it was not about spreading freedom and revolution; it was about creating a new empire with Napoleon the dictator or the emperor.

Spreading the wealth and giving other assistant coaches their due is critical.

Outside you get credit and praise and it makes you feel good, puts a spring in your step, but really the ceiling was the manager. If I was playing at Old Trafford and felt as though I was contributing and winning things, that was enough for me.

The so-called Arab Spring has proved that the fall of a Mubarak-like presidency does not mean the immediate rise of democracy. In spite of this, I am confident that Egypt will not return to an authoritarian governing system again, and that, with some time, it will achieve its democratic goals.