Quotes About Leadership

When I went on to write my next book, Working With Emotional Intelligence, I wanted to make a business case that the best performers were those people strong in these skills.

Run a home like you would a small business and treat it with the same seriousness.

I have always believed you cannot run a successful enterprise from behind a desk.

I do believe that any successful business starts from the top and works its way down.

Earnings can be pliable as putty when a charlatan heads the company reporting them.

People get good gigs because they stand up....You don't get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.

The time to go into a new business is when it's badly run by others.

If I lost control of the business I'd lose myself - or at least the ability to be myself. Owning myself is a way to be myself.

Like you, I'm fed up with business as usual in Washington. Send me to Congress, and I won't tweak our broken system. I'll shut it down.

Whatever policy we adopt, there must be an energetic prosecution of it. For this purpose it must be somebody's business to pursue and direct it incessantly.

This is a tough business to run for president.

For a hot-shot CEO taking over a troubled company, mass firings are the ultimate quick fix, the accounting equivalent of crack: cheap, easy to score, instantly gratifying, and highly addictive.

I tried acting and all of the arts, I even put out a record album, but what I like the most is business.

I didn't go to business school, didn't care about financial stuff and the stock market.

You can't regulate a soul into a business.

I've done the same thing in the world of business that winners do in the game. I watch them, admire them.

How do you build a successful organization or culture? It's the people. The people part, in business and basketball, is huge.

Running a business is making a difference in people's lives

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. -Ronald Reagan In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

If a business has to be told that it needs more focus, accountability and decisiveness, there is a bigger problem at hand.

I think about what's the best way to serve people. In business, if you do more for others than anybody else does, you dominate. That's the bottom line.

I've lectured at the Harvard Business School several times.

But maybe because the dot-com world gives people positions at a younger age, and many women are prominent in this business, it will help change the view about who can run big companies.

I'm not in the business of reading tea leaves. I don't have a crystal ball.