Quotes About Leadership

I've always led by example and I'm not that vocal.

If you put good people in bad systems you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness.

Good intentions are not an excuse for maladministration of this magnitude.

Being a good leader today doesn't mean you'll be a good leader 10 years from now. You have to adapt to the times

No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others.

Almost everything I do is related to my ability to hire good people. I don't take much of the credit myself. I think I have a good eye.

Strategically, a major function of the CEO is to look for bad news and encourage the organization to respond to it. Employees must be encouraged to share bad news as much as good news.

I try to hire people who will challenge and have the humility to be challenged - people who have basically good values.

The one thing that I know is that you win with good people.

It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws.

No man is good enough to be another's master.

We should invest in people not ideas. A good idea is often destroyed by bad people and good people can always make a bad idea better.

Good leaders need a positive agenda, not just an agenda of dealing with crisis.

I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.

I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves like sewer pipes.

Running for president was a good decision.

Believe me when I say that Bill Clinton's second term will be good for business. My business.

Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.

If you believe your catcher is intelligent and you know that he has considerable experience, it is a good thing to leave the game almost entirely in his hands.

Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.

Sometimes if you have very confident people, you have to tell them please, be polite, there are other players are good enough as you and you should never speak out of an orchestra.

My job is to make the whole executive team good enough to be successors, so that's what I try to do.