Quotes About Leadership

In my experience and observation, senior appointments are rarely based entirely on merit.

I always tell the adults at my dance school, 'Men, you are going to have to do something that you are absolutely not used to: you have got to take command and be the boss.' Because - and this is just an observation - women get their way.

To look at the players, to communicate with the players, to observe and to analyze - that's my job.

Scott Skiles is one of the best coaches in the NBA, someone I observe and learn from on a day-to-day basis.

Over the years, from serving in the CIA to sitting on non-profit boards, I have observed first-hand what the addition of even one woman to a meeting or to a decision-making body can do. Put simply, in very many instances, group dynamics improve markedly.

I own 'The New York Observer.'

Any objective observer will conclude that - based on her ideas and her leadership - Hillary Clinton must become the next president of the United States.

Observers may bemoan the lack of personal chemistry between Obama and Netanyahu, but international relationships needn't be love affairs between leaders. They rest on common interests, common values and reciprocity.

Confidence has nothing to do with what you look like. If you obsess over that, you'll end up being disappointed in yourself all the time. Instead, high self-esteem comes from how you feel in any moment. So walk into a room acting like you're in charge, and spend your energy on making the people around you happy.

When I became obsessed with Winston Churchill, I wrote a book about Churchill. What a joy it was to write that book!

The D.C. playbook is obsolete. It's time for the people of California to bring the agenda to Washington, not the other way around.

Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.

The obstacle for us is not Islam, but the bureaucrats in Brussels.

New leaders must also expect and manage setbacks. In post-revolutionary times, expectations are high, and the obstacles to meeting them are enormous.

We've never been a party to obstruct for obstruction sake.

If there is no peace in Central America, it will not be because Costa Rica, and myself as president, have not done what is necessary to obtain peace.

A lot of people of color and the Black Lives Matter movement will talk about what's really happening, but it seems like you can't get the black president to say something that's obvious about what's happening to black people in this country.

Their failures, both Obama's and Kay Hagan's, are obvious.

I love how when I say the world is still run by men, and sometimes I say the world is still run by white men, people gasp as if that's news. That's not news. That's obvious.

Success in M&As comes with executing with vigour along with the obvious right choices that you got to make.

What's obvious is that the U.S. has a very imperfect system, and yet its leaders are obsessed with lecturing the rest of the world on how to organise their affairs.

From the moment those images of Buzz and Neil arrived on the world's television sets, our human space program has been lost - for a blatantly simple and obvious reason - after the first giant leap to take that first small step, there was no plan for the next one, because there was no second question to be answered.

It's obvious that I'd like to keep the captain's armband. The job gives me a great deal of enjoyment. Why should I then give it up by choice?

Obviously, we shouldn't be having any American officeholder or any American candidate looking for foreign nations to come in and be involved in U.S. elections.