Quotes About Leadership

If you aren't committed to diversity of thought, you have no business launching a startup.

Like any startup in hyper-growth mode, growth often brings change, and with it, evolution in the executive team.

I think my gift lies in being a startup entrepreneur and creating environments and experiences.

The main thing to know about me is that I'm a champion of entrepreneurs and the startups they build. They are my rock stars. If in doubt, I side with them, and that's clear from my writing.

You want people who choose to follow because they genuinely believe in ideas, not because they're afraid to be punished if they don't. For startups, there's so much pivoting that's required that if you have a bunch of sheep, you're in bad shape.

All throughout my life I have been deeply immersed in startups, either because I was running one or investing in them or helping them.

I have seen a lot of now-great companies at their earliest stages, and these early-stage startups are not built by the senior people who know how to run and scale big-company machines.

There is a glass ceiling for the Indian startups. If I want to meet the PM, it won't be as easy as a foreign guy coming to India. I understand that dynamic, and we need to make sure government sees us as major contributors to society, which is not full there.

Early-stage startups are all about the founders and team.

The world is starving for original and decisive leadership.

In North Korea I literally believed that my Dear Leader was starving. He's the fattest guy - how can anyone believe that?

If a ruler can get rid of private crookedness and promote the public law, his people will become secure, and his state will become well ordered.

In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.

I think a failed state is the responsibility of the people who have made that state fail, and those are generally the people of that country.

The monarchy is a part of the state. It exists to serve the people.

I was chef to the French Presidents between '56 and '59, finished with de Gaulle, and during de Gaulle I remember serving Eisenhower, Nehru, Tito, Macmillan; those were the heads of state at the time. I never saw anyone. No one would ever, ever, ever come to the kitchen. You couldn't even see them.

The root of the kingdom is in the state. The root of the state is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its head.

You can see the absence of women in governing bodies from Congress to state legislators, on corporate boards, in tenured positions in academia, and as forepeople in factories.

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.

If Singapore is a nanny state, then I am proud to have fostered one.

In the early days of the republic, the secretary of state was the heir apparent to the president. Presidents could easily hand-pick their party's next candidate. The party caucuses formally selected the candidates, but presidents guided the process.

I am dying, but the state remains.

Every cook has to learn how to govern the state.

When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.