Quotes About Leadership

The captain strikes me as a competent officer, and competent officers are never given enough information to work with.

I like to pretend that I'm covering my tracks, bracing for any contingency. Ready for the worst, and all that jazz. I always feel better if there's a plan in place. And in this case, the plan was, "Leave the blind guy in charge of the juvenile delinquents and everything will be just fine. Probably.

Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management.

Captain, and he marched over

Vivi stood and crumpled the report. "Who's the CEO at Slakerian?" "Jakes Echabarne," her assistant said, not glancing at any notes. "Arrange a meeting." No one messed around with Hunting4TrueLove, whether she held the reins or not.

Be the captain. You are the captain. Take the ball and run.

Basking in the attention of the people who gathered around me, I didn't just feel like a backpacking expert. I felt like a hard-ass motherfucking Amazonian queen.

What I meant when I said that Hillary Clinton had made the world ready for Hillary Clinton is that I recognized her as a woman who had whacked the weeds to blaze her own trail, who had always stood up again after she was told to sit down, who had persisted, and persisted, and persisted, nevertheless. What I meant is that a woman like this was finally going to win. Someday she will.

I've been on the cover of 'Time' magazine three times, not for my beauty but because what I was doing was newsworthy around the world. I've worked with teams all my life, but I've been nice and I've been kind.

Madam, I may be President of the United States, but my private life is nobodys damn business.

Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests.

If you're not former military, join the Marine Corps.

Leroy was sixteen and the oldest so he thought he was too good to drive. Let baby boys do that, he'd say.

He recalled what Lyndon Johnson had said when Kennedy was assassinated and Johnson suddenly found himself president. Words to the effect that he would do the best he could do, because that was all he could do.

We know we are all tarnished, so we doubt everyone else too. It is sad situation, where we need a leader but cannot really trust anyone.

Right now, they don't, because they think you, the voter, doesn't care.

After a long time, we have had a stable mandate at the top. If the BJP blows this opportunity, it will set India back by a decade.

A bad boss is like a disease of the soul.

I guess teaching maths at Chandan Classes didn't keep me as fit as when I was the volleyball captain at IIT Delhi.

Dress down. Charisma comes from integrity, competence and compassion. Not from expensive clothes.

if a majority of us see and expect netas to be service providers instead of rulers, it will trigger a huge behavioural change in the political class.

they drive your nation, but just as a hired driver drives a bus. The driver cannot start believing he owns the bus. The driver should also know that if he doesn't drive well, he will be removed.

Our society respects power, not excellence or integrity. Power-driven systems resemble the jungle. The

If we are lucky enough to have good leaders at the top, change will happen quickly. Unfortunately