Quotes About Leadership

Show me a man who is a good loser and I'll show you a man who is playing golf with his boss.

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.

I'm kind of a builder of institutions. I think I've got some ability to look at what's out here, look at a playing field, and identify gaps and niches.

When you watch Chris Paul on the playoff stage, you often sense he is fighting two battles, one against his nature and one against his opponent.

Playoff basketball isn't about who scores, stats or putting numbers up on the board. It's just about winning at the end of the day. When you play a game in a series, it becomes chess. It becomes who can outsmart the other team.

A manager has to convince his hitters that they have to get on base for the next guy and that no player can do it by himself. Sometimes that isn't easy. In the playoffs, you can get into trouble because everybody wants to be a hero.

You don't sell the team short and say, 'We're just trying to make the playoffs,' or anything like that.

One person can't bring you to the playoffs or win a championship.

You're coaching Kentucky - and you have a chance to change lives. That's not what this is up there in the NBA. You have assets. You're trying to piece a team together. You're trying to win more games than the other guy. You're trying to advance in the playoffs, and if you don't, they'll find somebody else that can.

I went to Golden State and helped them get to the playoffs my first year there, and they haven't been to the playoffs in 13 years. I played in Charlotte... and I got them to the playoffs. So, every team I go to, I make them better.

When you get into the playoffs, there become a lot of different storylines. But it's all about putting together a team that competes for a title.

That's what you need to win a Cup and go far in the playoffs, you need every guy to be accountable in all areas of the ice.

Especially when it comes to the Finals and playoffs, your team needs you mentally and physically.

I feel like any team I'm on, I can help take that team to the playoffs.

When I scramble and do those things, I try to look downfield, look for the playmakers, put it in their hands, and let them make all the big plays happen.

They pay me the big bucks to make the big plays.

The big-time player makes big-time plays in big-time games and that's what we need to keep doing.

He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.

Mentorship plays such an important role in business - we know it's a must - and I believe schools should embrace it in a much fuller way.

It's my job to get us in good plays, or more importantly, out of bad plays. That's what I did.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.

Be ambitious. The great actor, director and playwright Ann Jellicoe commissioned writers like Howard Barker and David Edgar, and put on magnificent, large-scale plays in Dorset that involved the whole community.

I'm often accused of hiring people with civil rights experience, and I do plead guilty to that.

Prada is extremely directed in terms of communicating what they like and what they don't like. That is actually extremely pleasant because it clarifies very easily what you can do and what you need to do.