Quotes About Leadership

A good director is not an expert in anything in particular. A good director just knows a little bit about everything.

So I let them be responsible for there particular areas. Then by the time it gets to me that means that there is a problem. I have my eyes open and I need to know something about every department but you don't want to micro manage any particular department.

Before my father would open up a karate school in a particular neighborhood, he'd clean up the block - kick all the drug dealers and gang bangers off the block. My father was very clear: 'I've got guns too, and I'll kill you just as much as a rival gang would.' And he meant it. He was a man of many facets and complexities.

25 years later, you know, I haven't really put too much emphasis on any kind of individual goal, other than trying to win any particular night, trying to find a way to do that.

If you hire only those people you understand, the company will never get people better than you are. Always remember that you often find outstanding people among those you don't particularly like.

I've made no secret that although I loved being a legislator, I particularly loved being a chief executive.

There's some jerks. There's some big egos. There are a few that think they're one of the Founding Fathers... in both parties.

But if we can work with people in other parties to get the right answer for the country we'll do that.

We don't want our MPs to become greedy like those of other parties.

I do not believe in self-proclaimed parties.

I haven't chosen any party yet because people choose parties when they get older. When it's time, I'll look, and if I can't find one to join, I'll make another party.

A minority government can't govern without support from other parties.

BJP is a national party which runs the central government, and if I can take a decision on the future of all these parties, I must be a capable person. I am grateful that everybody is accepting my capability.

Parties that win elections should form the government, not parties that lose elections.

We will face the challenges head on. We will work with both parties, across the aisle, to make our state better.

The President of the United States has long been the leader of the free world. The president and, yes, the nominees of the country's great parties help define America to billions of people. All of them bear the responsibility of being an example for our children and grandchildren.

If politicians of both parties would spend more time legislating and less time attacking each other, we would all be better off.

Our elected officials must understand that we, the American people, expect them to perform the duties of their office, even when that means working with other elected officials from different parties.

The job of a leader, the job of a governor, the job of a president, is to get the people in the room and bang enough heads together and rub enough arms and cajole enough to have them put the country and the state's greater interest ahead of their own personal partisan interest. That's what we did in New Jersey and that's the model for America.

We need elected officials who overcome partisan politics to really help people.

When it's for the good of your state, you put partisan differences aside.

Making government more efficient and more effective need not be a partisan issue.

At its worst, Washington is a place where name-calling partisan politics too often trumps policy.

We need Congress to do more than just engage in partisan games.