Quotes About Leadership

A bigger business is like a cruise ship: There are lots of amenities and you can go a lot further, but it's harder to turn quickly.

The business that leaders are in today, is the business of transforming awareness... There is deep longing for more meaning, for connections.

We've got a low turnover management group and executive group who've grown up in the business.

As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there

The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake. The best people don't need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed.

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Hire character. Train skill.

You cannot get into business for the fashion of it.

Follow sound business trends, not fashion trends.

But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business.

If your business requires your presence you don't have a business, you have a job.

Strong leaders understand that action cures indecision

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market

If you do not have the time to read, you do not have the time to lead.

All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.

I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.

Be passionate about the culture and the business, and remain positive, because it inspires others.

You have got to have discipline and focus - on the customer and how you run the business.

The reaction of weak management to weak operations is often weak accounting.

If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes.

Sometimes when you follow your dream; it opens the door for others to be able to follow theirs.

In life and business, there are two cardinal sins. The first is to act precipitously without thought and the second is to not act at all.

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

What was everybody's business in the end proved to be nobody's business. Each one looked to the other to take the lead, and the aggressorsgot away with it.