Quotes About Leadership

In the Army, because the stakes are so high - right? - you can't just be a yes-man and say, 'Great idea, boss!' if you don't believe it - right? - because lives are at stake. And the commanders that I've worked for, they want frank assessments; they want criticism and feedback.

Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher.

War is often about making the least-worst decision. The same could be said about politics. But the stakes are higher in war, when the commander-in-chief is called upon to defend the nation.

The higher the stakes, the more responsible we have to be. It was with this in mind that I began to build my Green Economy and Climate Agenda.

Asking for people's help - rather than directing it - is almost always the smart way of doing things, regardless of the stakes.

I've found that entrepreneurship only gets harder every year, and as your team gets bigger, the stakes get higher.

The stakes are high in politics.

Politics in America is like stale bread. It's so yada yada that the best among us can hardly stand it.

Every Russian emperor from Peter the Great to Stalin and Putin knows a leader and his security agencies must never be parted. His safety depends on their slavish devotion.

To make a Frankenstein monster of a complex character like Stalin would have been too simplistic. I wanted to show who he was and, if you like, how he happened.

If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch.

There's a myth that Roosevelt gave Stalin Eastern Europe. I was with Roosevelt every day at Yalta.

Even now we feel that Stalin was devoted to Communism, he was a Marxist, this cannot and should not be denied.

Roosevelt was determined to stop Stalin from taking over Eastern Europe. He thought they finally had an agreement on Poland. Before Roosevelt died, he realized that Stalin had broken his agreement.

Cromwell is just as much of a bloody dictator as was Stalin.

If you listen carefully to Rick Santorum, he sounds more like Stalin than Pope Innocent III.

So many entrepreneurs view their companies as their babies. They micromanage, and they stall.

While some members of Congress have attempted to stall progress on climate change, their actions amount to little more than political theater. We will not abandon our responsibility to our children and grandchildren, nor will we cede global leadership on the defining issue of our time.

As a group of players, and as a set-up, you need to set your stall out as to what is acceptable and what is not.

I think about people like Jeff Bezos or Reed Hastings, and I really marvel at the stamina they've had to keep on trucking no matter what happens.

I am ready and prepared to work with the President, but I will not be a rubber stamp for any president.

Lincoln did more than any other man to put the stamp of righteousness, to put the stamp of compassion, on the name of America.

For me, Shonda Rhimes is an amazing person that I look up to. She empowered a lot of her writers to go on and do other things while, at the same time, she made sure she kept her stamp on those things and grew her business.

I'd be lying if I said I never had any issues with players but at some point you have to stamp your authority because if you're good at taking free-kicks, for example, they should let you take them.