Quotes About Leadership

I would recommend you watch the movie 'Jobs' starring Ashton Kutcher, if you don't have time to read Jobs's biography.

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.

I wish developing great products was as easy as writing a check. If that was the case, Microsoft would have great products.

There is nothing brilliant or outstanding in my record, except perhaps this one thing. I do the things I believe ought to be done. And when I make up my mind to do a thing, I act.

And here's what management is: motivating people and putting them in places where they can succeed.

The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon.

Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.

Rome didn't create an Empire by holding meetings - they did it by killing their enemies.

History has repeatedly been changed by people who had the desire and the ability to transfer their convictions and emotions to their listeners.

Alex Ferguson is the best manager I've ever had at this level. Well, he's the only manager I've actually had at this level. But he's the best manager I've ever had.

Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive and determination of the people who do it as it is about the product they sell.

If you want to upgrade your circle of influence, it begins with upgrading yourself.

You can't grow long-term if you can't eat short-term. Anybody can manage short. Anybody can manage long. Balancing those two things is what management is.

Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit.

To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'

Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.

Just get out of the way. Just GO. Forget the corporate rules where you have to sit and meet. Forget that. What's the goal? OK. How you going to get there? Now let's charge! GO!

Happiness is the secret ingredient for successful businesses. If you have a happy company it will be invincible.

Whoever established the high road, and how high it should be, should be fired.

Making it through the ceiling to the other side was simply a matter of running on a path created by every other woman's footprints.

I view my role more as trying to set up an environment where the personalities, creativity and individuality of all the different employees come out and can shine.

All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days . . .nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

There is always room at the top, don't let them tell you there is not.

To become a courageous leader, you must realize that accepting responsibility is not optional - it's mandatory.