Quotes About Leadership

You can't be around Oprah and not have her influence you, and I don't mean that because she's doling out the free advice. I mean it because she is someone that leads with truth and follows her heart. She's a force.

Someone that I'm really inspired by, and that I look up to, is Oprah. It's amazing how she created such an empire.

I spent a lot of times sitting in big rooms full of a lot of men and executives thinking, 'What would Oprah say right now?' and trying to channel that as hard as I could. And mostly that was just about having the confidence. If this woman did it, it can be done. And there's no reason for anybody to stop you.

I am not immune to Oprah's charms, but President Winfrey is a terrible idea.

I want to be the Mexican-American Oprah Winfrey. That's a small goal, isn't it? That's something that I want. And of course not just to host, I want to OWN it! So, that's in my future.

Oprah Winfrey is such an inspiring person.

I've made a point throughout my girls' lives of reading them bedtime stories about strong, innovating women, whether it's Oprah Winfrey or Frida Kahlo.

That's a large part of the job as governor: to create and maintain the optimal balance.

I instilled in my children the importance of good values in business: hard work, determination, integrity, and optimism.

Let optimists rule the world.

In politics, you also have to be cautiously optimistic.

The obligation of every ethical management is to make sure we optimize the long-term value of the company.

The optimum committee has no members.

It's nice being the first option as long as you're winning.

A long-term manager is a better option than a short-term one, but you've got to get the right man.

When you are the invisible man to the head coach, the only option is to head for the exit.

The President has been a big proponent of the public option since the campaign.

When we look at the majority of the American people, when they believe that their leadership is letting them down, there is only one option out there for us, and that's to change that leadership.

The biggest thing as a head coach, you want to make sure you exhaust every option.

Today, no leader can afford to be indifferent to the challenge of engaging employees in the work of creating the future. Engagement may have been optional in the past, but it's pretty much the whole game today.

The most important thing for us is investing and making companies great, and then they have all the options they want, whether that's to go public or stay private.

So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided.

We have people from places like Oracle, Microsoft, Intuit. Sama plays a huge role in why people leave lucrative careers to join a social enterprise.

When we do acquisitions, we decide what we want. We decide what fills a hole. And if the price is too high, our alternative is the $5 billion we spend on R&D every year. We're not well-known for overpaying, because at Oracle we always have an alternative.