Quotes About Leadership

Miscavige keeps a number of dogs, including five beagles. He had blue vests made up for each of them, with four stripes on the shoulder epaulets, indicating the rank of Sea Org Captain. He insists that people salute the dogs as they parade by. The dogs have a mini-treadmill where they work out.

Chaos and barbarism, which always threatened to overwhelm the movement, sharply increased as bin Laden took the helm.

Those who are not with Mr. Bush are against him. Worse, they are with the enemy. Which is odd, because I'm dead against Bush, but I would love to see Saddam's downfall -- just not on Bush's terms and not by his methods. And not under the banner of such outrageous hypocrisy.

In the hands of politicians grand designs achieve nothing but new forms of the old misery.

Here is a fact which may seem discouraging at first blush, but one which on reflection will encourage and inspire confidence; immense industrial undertakings do not need great men.

The historic function of a Senator from Oregon is to drive all the other Senators mad.

Fire and fear, good servants, bad lords.

In order to succeed, it is not necessary to be much cleverer than other people. All you have to be is one day ahead of them.

I had very supportive parents that made the way for me, even at a time when there were very few women - no women, really maybe two or three women - and very few, fewer than that, African-American women heading in this direction, so there were very few people to look up to. You just had to have faith.

Suzanne Collins could have chosen to give us Coin as president, an example of a continuous pattern, mistakes just waiting to be made again. Instead she gives us a song. And children. And though "they play on a graveyard" (Mockingjay), the important thing is that they are free to play.

Focus means saying "no." Jobs focuses Apple's limited resources on a small number of projects it can execute well.

Steve kept impressing on us that the design was integral to what would make us great,' said Schiller.

Al subcontratar la mayoría de operaciones de Apple y reforzar la asociación con Foxconn, Cook hizo algo que no se había hecho nunca antes, y con resultados asombrosos. Los ejecutivos de Apple, muy especialmente Steve Jobs, tomaron debida nota de ello.

Focus on what you are good at; delegate all else. Jobs doesn't direct animated movies or woo Wall Street. He concentrates on what he's good at.

Concentre-se naquilo em que você é bom; delegue todo o resto. Jobs não dirige filmes de animação nem namora Wall Street. Ele se concentra naquilo em que é bom.

Focus means saying no." Focus is also having the confidence to say no when everyone else is saying yes.

Most management advice for the last twenty-five years has focused on issues like empathy and compassion. Advice books encourage building teamwork through kindness and understanding. There's been very little written about scaring the pants off employees to improve results. But as Richard Nixon said, "People react to fear, not love—they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

When I die, my tombstone is going to say: "The Guy Who Hired Jonathan Ive"!

The lead and his two deputies will also pore through the pages trying to find ways to integrate new ideas.

Estaba ampliamente aceptado que, después de Jobs, la persona más visionaria de Apple no era Cook, sino Jony Ive, el jefe de diseño.

our goal is not just to make money but to make great products.. make only first-class products with high margins so that Apple could continue to develop even better first-class products

In their constant iterations, Apple was beating the "fast followers

It takes four and no more. It takes four to win the war. -Relly

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.