Quotes About Leadership

To me, a great company starts with a great product and ends with a great product.

As business moves forward, you realize that God has his hand on the whole business and that he brought people to you who are like-minded. It starts with faith.

Everything starts and finishes with the soldier.

I believe that the director is really the soul. It is a collaborative effort, but the director is the one who needs to have that vision. It could be a great script, but it starts from there. You need to have good material, at least, but if you don't have someone with vision, it's just words.

Keeping people fired up starts with having a really clear vision for what the company is aiming to do.

During election time, I work over 21 hours. My day starts around 6 A.M., and I address meetings through the day. Between 10 P.M. and 2 A.M., I meet local leaders, where we discuss local issues and local problems.

It starts with me. I have to get the team in the right play and throw the ball where it's supposed to go.

For me, the game starts with starting pitching.

I regularly encourage employees to break rules. I also say to employees that leadership starts with complaining and dissatisfaction. But it doesn't stop there. It comes from saying you're dissatisfied with something and then fixing it and making it better for everybody.

Cultivating innovative thinking starts at the top. Leaders can foster a culture of innovation by encouraging creativity and experimenting with new ideas.

An entrepreneur is not a person who starts a company, but he is the person who actually solves a problem.

I want the USDA to look like America, and I want it to be the best, most effectively managed agency in the U.S. That starts with good people.

Almost all government starts at a very local level at some point.

The first step in changing a culture, I believe, starts with the senior leadership team - and with the CEO.

Hold at least one all-hands meeting every quarter and, to underscore the startup's team concept, make sure at least one additional executive joins you in leading the meeting.

Properly defined, a startup is the largest group of people you can convince of a plan to build a different future.

A startup for entrepreneurs is like a baby, and I have five babies so far - experienced father.

Recruiting talent is no different than any other challenge a startup faces. It's all about selling.

Despite what some investors say, older age is an advantage in the startup world. You know more about industries and markets, and have ideas for products that the world actually needs and a better ability to motivate and manage than a kid out of school does.

Passion gets an entrepreneur through the startup days and the enormous efforts it takes to build a business.

I believe a board in a small startup company should never vote on anything.

You can't predict the future, and you've got to go with your gut on these things, and I'm sure if you speak to a laundry list of CEOs and people who have gone through the startup process themselves, they'll say it's an endless hurdle race, and you are inevitably going to catch your legs on hurdles, and it's just how you roll with that.

The two big startup killers are when there's just no market for what you are doing, and team problems.

Campaigns are crazy things. They're half startup, half enterprise.