Quotes About Leadership

I always feel your movie will be as strong as your weakest link.

People always think the coach is the strongest person at a club, the boss, but in truth, he's the weakest link. We're there, vulnerable, undermined by those who don't play, by the media, by the fans. They all have the same objective: to undermine the manager.

The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.

The lesson of the Cuban Missile Crisis is plain: Strength prevents war; weakness invites it. We need a commander-in-chief who understands that - and who won't leave us facing a foe who thinks he doesn't.

Let no one think that flexibility and a predisposition to compromise is a sign of weakness or a sell-out.

Planning is really the hallmark of any large military formation, and it's typically a weakness in new formations and new armies.

Politicians will be politicians, they will have a weakness at times for not seeing beyond their nose.

I don't know how to say no, and that's a weakness.

Salazar's record is one of weakness; he hasn't been a good attorney general.

There would not be enough talent that's educated, developed and ready to take on the next leadership challenge, and it would cap our growth. Now we've put programs in place not to have that happen, but that could be a weakness.

The MC has to be just that, a master in control. They can show no signs of weakness.

We need to deal with the economy and the moral weakness of the country.

My dad worked for Nestle for 26 years and ended up being the mayor of our hometown. One of the lessons I learned from him was to never mistake kindness for weakness.

The weakness in the company is if we fail to execute.

You can be stern and forthright, and that's my management style, but when you lose it totally, that's a sign of weakness.

President Obama's biggest weakness is weakness.

Projecting weakness will not make us safer or discourage attacks against us. We need to show leadership and strength by demonstrating that we will not tolerate violent acts against our people, and we will not leave our citizens or our interests vulnerable to an attack.

Sometimes you need conflict in order to come up with a solution. Through weakness, oftentimes, you can't make the right sort of settlement, so I'm aggressive, but I also get things done, and in the end, everybody likes me.

The nation's chronic weakness is its political system, which is nearing dysfunction. If the U.S. can elect better political leadership, it should be able to manage problems better than most competitors.

In politics, there is only one crime that is unforgivable - showing weakness.

I think that our weakness is understanding that when we go to war, we go to war to win.

If I wanted to have total control and be a dictator, I would do ice sculpture in my basement. If I want to make a movie, I'm going to work with 500 people, and I will have to work with their strength and their weakness.

It's important for the coach when you arrive to understand the players and to understand every single player's strength and their weakness.

When it comes to Iran, we must not accept Obama's inconsistencies and weakness.