Quotes About Leadership

My acronym is WWSJD: What Would Steve Jobs Do?

Steve Jobs was my hero.

The paradox of Steve Jobs's career is that he had no interest in listening to consumers - he was famously dismissive of market research - yet nonetheless had an amazing sense of what consumers actually wanted.

I think Steve Wynn, who was like my mentor and a second father, has been a great inspiration. He's a great mentor because he's a guy who's had great business success but also has always been driven by creativity - and inspired creativity.

We've seen guys in the sport, like Steve Smith and Virat Kohli, who have actually benefited from the captaincy.

Of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs.

Kids in college often look for mentors and role models to model their careers after, and women don't have the equivalent of a Steve Jobs or Bill Gates. I think it's a self-perpetuating loop.

A lot of people thought Steve Jobs was a CEO of Apple but he never was until he came back to Apple in 1997.

But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great.

In 83 I thought we were going to go all the way. We had Roy Smalley, and Steve King, and good players.

Part of Steve's job was to drum into us how important what we were doing actually would be to the world.

I don't envisage I will be captain again, but for two England managers, Steve McClaren and Fabio Capello, I was their first choice and I'm proud of that.

Like many of my fellow entrepreneurs, I didn't create Hearsay Social with my co-founder Steve Garrity because it would be fun and easy, but because we're at our best when faced with enormous challenges.

Steve Jobs changed my life. He also changed the life of every designer.

Is there anyone out there who is the next Steve Jobs? I think Jeff Bezos is pretty close. He is very smart. He is extremely creative. He has completely reinvented the way in which commerce is done online.

Steve Jobs was a real rock star to me. I looked forward to his products like people look forward to albums.

I have a very high opinion of Steve King and his ability, so I would encourage him to consider any position for higher office.

I was taught coming up in the Phillies organization to be seen and not heard by people like Pete Rose, my hero growing up, and players like Mike Schmidt and Steve Carlton and Manny Trillo.

On a daily basis, you're working with Steve Carell; you're not working with Ricky Gervais. You try a line, and you can't be writing for David Brent. You have to be writing for Michael Scott because Steve is Michael Scott.

I once said, 'Steve Jobs is the American Xavier Niel,' but that was humour.

If anyone has seen success and failure on a global stage, it's my friend Steve Forbes.

Until his dying days, Steve Jobs could not only predict the direction the marketplace would be heading, but help drive it there.

One of the first acts during the second coming of Steve Jobs as CEO in 1997 was a major board overhaul.

It seems obvious to say, but I really admire the creative sides of Steve Jobs.