Quotes About Leadership

I think most corporate executives are good honorable honest men and women who do good work.

As a doctor, an educator, an innovator and someone who has dedicated his professional career to making things work better and to helping people – I am ready to lead.

My coach was a great politician, so he did most of the work. He was good.

We're going to make sure that the people who run for office and get elected are the ones who are going to work for the American people.

Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.

Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very reluctant to undertake the work of governing.

I'd work to make it hip again to spend time in our fabled and fabulous land. But with a Puerto Rican father and a Jewish mother, I would probably be better suited as mayor of New York.

I want to work with the big orchestras. I want to have a big family.

Be willing to lose a battle in order to win the war.

The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men.

A committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent.

You said, 'How is it possible for democracy to work with an illiterate people who are dying of hunger?' But with that people we made a democracy work.

As for the job of prime minister, I like it, yes. But no more than I've liked other work that I've done as an adult.

Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.

My bosses cautioned me about my candor. Now my GE career is over, and I'm telling you that it was my candor that helped make it work.

I will have no man work for me who has not the capacity to become a partner.

I like to plan everything out and know exactly what we're doing. It's always important to me to work with a cast and a crew that not only I respect their talent but I really like them as people.

The highest compliments leaders can receive are those that are given by the people who work for them.

The relationship between talent — a term loosely applied to those who work on-air — and management is uneasy, at best.

I feel that my job is to create an atmosphere where creative people can do their best work.

The function of the politician, therefore, is one of continuous watchfulness and activity, and he must have intimate knowledge of details if he would work out grand results.

Why employ intelligent and highly paid ambassadors and then go and do their work for them? You don't buy a canary and sing yourself.

I'm a pragmatist. I think, as a woman, you have to be more careful. You have to be more communal, you have to say yes to more things than men, you have to worry about things that men don't have to worry about. But once we get enough women into leadership, we can break stereotypes down. If you lead, you get to decide.

When women are provided with training and entrepreneurial opportunities in distribution networks, they become role models in their communities, showing it is possible to challenge limiting norms and stereotypes, and to succeed.