Quotes About Leadership

I would say that every pope has had people within his administration who have had difficulties one way or another with his administration.

For whatever reason, Coach Schwartz and I weren't all that close at first. We didn't have that kind of relationship, really. I don't know why, maybe because I was a rookie, but I never felt real comfortable just popping my head in his office and sitting down to talk.

You don't have to be popular with the players to be a good manager or coach.

Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.

I think I give myself high marks being an entrepreneur and entrepreneuring a big idea about how popular social gaming could be. But I learned a lot of hard lessons on the CEO front... and do not give myself very high marks as a CEO of a large-scale company.

Having a hit is nice, having some success, but when you move popular culture, that's a high.

That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.

I'm not trying to win a popularity poll. I'm trying to win football games.

Popularity isn't an objective in itself. I'm not in this game.

The popularity of the party and Yingluck is getting more and more.

My job isn't to win popularity contests.

Popularity has always been the key currency in choosing a president.

I didn't go into politics because I wanted to win a popularity contest.

The notion of 'world leadership' is a curiously archaic one. The very phrase is redolent of Kipling ballads and James Bondian adventures. What makes a country a world leader? Is it population, in which case India is on course to top the charts, overtaking China as the world's most populous country by 2034?

There are certainly more people in the business world who would score high in the psychopathic dimension than in the general population. You'll find them in any organization where, by the nature of one's position, you have power and control over other people and the opportunity to get something.

I decided to use my social media to inspire changes in the younger population.

Athletes can definitely have an impact on society. And it's great that athletes can be a part of uniting the population.

I don't see the wisdom in modern politicians that I once saw in men like Dean Acheson, David Bruce, or George Marshall. In my day, the northeastern establishment dominated foreign policy formulation, but the composition and distribution of our population is very different today.

It's extremely important that we elect people that look like the population they serve.

But 'This Town' is official Washington. It's political Washington. It's not the Washington that clogs New York Avenue. It's not the Washington that lives in Gaithersburg. It's not the Washington that accounts for most of the population. 'This Town' refers to the people who think they run your country.

If the most liberal man that's ever been in office can get elected when 20 percent of the population identifies as liberal then I think we can elect a conservative when 40 percent of the population identifies themselves as conservative.

We all need Europe, not just those of us in Europe. And we Germans need Europe more than the others. Germany is the country with the longest border, the most neighbours, and is, by population and economic strength, the number one in Europe.

Most of my diversity conversations are had with the majority population, because frankly, those people are the people who have the most influence over everybody's career.

We are doing politics differently - smart, populist, political movement.