Quotes About Leadership

I always told people in the private sector, 'You can be the smartest person in the world, you can have the very best ideas, but if you can't sell them and you can't get other people to work with you, you're not going to succeed.'

If the only people who can succeed in politics are people who go in at 25, that'd be too bad. That'd be a shame.

Entrepreneurship requires flexibility and an open society, and there will always be people who succeed and people who follow. For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.

I will do everything I can in future to help this great country succeed.

I'm not claiming that we are the only guys who are going to succeed in the cloud. Others can succeed as well, just like in the previous generation.

In both the world of fashion and politics, what's required to succeed is passion, dedication, and vision.

I don't see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.

I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.

He who has no bread has no authority

Michelangelo is celebrated for the Sistine Chapel; in fact, he supervised a dozen unacknowledged assistants. Even one of the greatest composers, Johann Sebastian Bach, chose to deflect credit for his compositions, writing at the bottom of each of his pieces "SDG," for Soli Deo Gloria—to God alone the glory. By

I've got to be first all the time — in everything.

Elon Musk personally interviewed the first three thousand employees at SpaceX because he wanted to make sure the company was hiring the right people.4

We focus on a very specific kind of talent in this book—namely, talent with a creative spark—and that is where the bureaucratic approach is most deadly. In referring to the creative spark, we mean people who generate new ideas, start new institutions, develop new methods for executing on known products, lead intellectual or charitable movements, or inspire others by their very presence, leadership, and charisma, regardless of the context.

Daniel understands that the mystique and thrill of building a new company have to outweigh the inertia of the status quo and its easier defaults, and that he is in part responsible for articulating that vision of creating something new.

Don't wait for someone to green light your project, build your own intersection.

there are people whose lives are tied into your dream. Own your stuff, own your business, own your way.

I'm the Princess BellaDonna, baby. The head bee-yotch in charge. And from now on, you will do Whatever. I. Say.

He has three master's degrees and recently retired as a major after twenty-eight years in the United States Air Force.

A messiah is the one who leaves a mess behind him in this world.

If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.

Wherever the enemy goes let our troops go also.

There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.

The darkest day of my life was the day I heard of Lincoln's assassination. I did not know what it meant. Here was the rebellion put down in the field, and starting up in the gutters...

There are many men who would have done better than I did under the circumstances in which I found myself. If I had never held command, if I had fallen, there were 10,000 behind who would have followed the contest to the end and never surrendered the Union.