Quotes About Leadership

Communicate with the front office, communicate with the staff, communicate with the secretaries, everybody. And make everybody feel a part of something. That's important.

Letters actually work. Even the top dog himself takes time every day to read 10 letters that are picked out by staff. I can tell you that every official that I've ever worked with will tell you about the letters they get and what they mean.

A chief of staff has to reflect the president's governing style.

As president, you can't just say, 'I want this,' or, 'Do that.' A president has to lead the American people to where he wants to go, and the chief of staff needs to help him get it done.

Many chiefs of staff are close, very close, to their bosses on Capitol Hill.

As long as you like yourself, as long as your family like you, as long as you are good at what you do, your staff respect you, and your board have trust in you, that's what is important.

The reason I'm in good form is not just down to myself: it's down to the manager and coaching staff improving my game.

Once you have set the goal, give your staff the space to get there. If you micromanage, you will be able to do very little.

I think you have to constantly challenge your staff. I have to challenge myself; you get more interesting answers that way.

Corruption is found everywhere. I admit there is some corruption in my staff - not me.

See that the President, the Cabinet and staff are informed. If cut out of the information flow, their decisions may be poor, not made, or not confidently or persuasively implemented.

You miss the camaraderie of being around your team and your staff. It's good to be back in the middle of it all.

When the bus or the plane rolled or flew through the night, they sang songs of their own composition about Mr Nixon and the Republicans in chorus with the Kennedy staff and felt that they, too, were marching like soldiers of the Lord to the New Frontier.

Temporarily in 1934 I became a department head in the German Labor Front and dealt with the improvement of labor conditions in German factories. Then I was in charge of public works on the staff of Hess. I gave up both these activities in 1941.

I should have never allowed myself to be as familiar with my staff as I was.

At the minor-league and major-league level, you know how important your coaching staff is, but in a big market it becomes absolutely huge.

Our forefathers never envisioned that a handful of staff write a bill and you rush it through a committee without reading it and you rush it to the floor without reading it, and you pass it just because you're a Democrat and Democrats told you to do that.

Many of my staff have been with me for over 20 years. I have a great team, and I make sure they feel respected and appreciated.

The president is just the coach of a football team. You need the right support, the right stadium, the right players, the right staff. An excellent coach is not going to win games.

I think as far as any kind of pressure on a football team or on an individual in professional sports really depends not only on that individual but the leadership they have on the team and the leadership they have on the coaching staff. A lot of times, they can divert some of those pressures off of the individual and off of the team.

A president is always cosseted by his staff.

Dungy, head coach of the Indianapolis Colts, has long believed that he, his staff and players should be as devoted to family time as they are to playing time, as focused on giving to charities as they are to taking the ball away from opponents.

Everybody knows I return all of my phone calls. I pick up my cell phone myself, much to the chagrin of my staff.

Ladies and gentlemen, even my own staff challenges me. When I issue edicts, commands, orders, ideas, you would think that there would be overwhelming blanket acquiescence, approval, and support.