Quotes About Leadership

If you don't hire at least one or two people that are smarter than you are, then you're a terrible manager and I don't need you.

One thing the military does far better than business is train its own leaders. I can't go to IBM and hire a battalion commander. They don't have any.

Have a vision. Be demanding.

We don't think of ourselves as do-gooders or altruists. It's just that somehow we're trying our best to be run with some sense of moral compass even in a business environment that is growing.

My motto has always been: Only first class business and that in a first class way

Being able to do everything in the business doesn't necessarily mean you should do everything.

There is no room for being creative in today's business... Except for finding creative ways to be inefficient.

To the people of Illinois let me say this. Business as usual IS OVER.

When I reached the top in business, I adjusted to my new position – I became bolder and crazier than before. And I listened even less to people who tried to slow me down.

Managers are the basic and scarcest resource of any business enterprise.

I was immature the way I handled the business. I saw myself as a tribune of the people.

Become the very best in your business!

If you stop building stars, which we never do, you wouldn't be in business.

What if compassion is also profitable? What if compassion is also good for business?

This is not a business where you can hand off and run by remote control.

If you want to be a leader, you've got to be a reader.

As far as I'm concerned, the first business leader who was able to establish a cult of personality around his tenure was Lee Iacocca.

I'm a business person at heart.

I am endorsed by some of the greatest business people in the world.

Unfortunately, the boards of art institutions tend to be populated with well-meaning supporters of the arts who often lack any business background or appetite for imposing appropriate discipline.

It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.

We have little choice but to move beyond quality and seek remarkable, connected, and new. Remarkable, as you've already figured out, demands initiative.

President Roosevelt's leadership put the world on notice that the United States of America - with the freest, most dynamic economy the world had ever seen - was open for business.

In a company where tech decisions were still ultracentralized, the repercussions of a distracted CEO had to be damaging.