Quotes About Leadership

Honesty first; then courage; then brains - and all are indispensable.

Your voice can change the world.

If you're competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.

It's possible to climb to the top without stomping on other people.

America is too great for small dreams.

Never follow the crowd.

If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.

Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.

You can run a lot of plays when your X is twice as big as the other guys' O. It makes your X's and O's pretty good.

Leaders must wake people out of inertia. They must get people excited about something they've never seen before, something that does not yet exist.

Basketball is just a platform for me to inspire people.

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.

I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it

It's more important to do the right thing than to do things right.

The worst mistake a boss can make is not to say 'Well done'.

It seems to me that the fact that I am a woman is a bigger issue than the fact that I'm from the East. For me it isn't really important. I've only ever known myself as a woman.

I'm as proud of many of the things we haven't done as the things we have done. Innovation is saying no to a thousand things.

Good thinkers are always in demand. A person who knows how may always have a job, but the person who knows why will always be his boss.

Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.

I have two favorite songs. My first is called 'Dance of The Robe' and it's a very powerful number where she is feeling the pressure from her people to take on the responsibility of leading them.

A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.

Be the sun and all will see you.

I don't look at myself as a basketball coach. I look at myself as a leader who happens to coach basketball.

A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.