Quotes About Leadership

I will not let my family's problems become my country's problems.

During my 8 years in office, I set up a special investigatory branch as part of the highest court level. As it happened, from the time I set it up until now, I'm the one who has been investigated under that procedure. Of course, I had not expected this to happen.

The military likes to figure out how to do something, put it in a manual or an operating procedure, and perfect doing it, and have everyone do it the same way. I don't like that.

I live in dread that I might find myself in some sort of emergency, and everyone will turn to me and expect me to know what the correct procedures are.

Naturally our Government would not consent to such terms, and so the war had to proceed.

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.

Change is a process which has to be managed.

If you have to abuse your power, you're probably in the process of losing it.

You can get together, you can talk as much as you want, but if there's not a decision-making process - that's where democracy really matters.

I was always fascinated by the decision-making process and the managerial process and just business in general.

If a decision-making process is flawed and dysfunctional, decisions will go awry.

I'm not the kind of director who imposes his processes on everybody else.

The captaincy is about putting the team first, making sure the girls are happy - that they're comfortable with the processes we have, the way that the schedule is - to be able to challenge people on and off the pitch: not telling them off, but advising them.

Two directors always come with two thought processes.

A commander in chief with military experience might be able to prod a conservative military into thinking more imaginatively.

I'm going to demand. I'm going to push and prod. And a lot of times, players don't know what is needed for a team to break through.

Absolutely. I can produce. I can write. I can direct.

When I produce other people, that's the thing I can do well because I've been in a band, and I can play the political game and make everybody feel happy, and I can check their performances, and I can work on the sound while they're being a band.

One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee.

It is up to us to produce better-quality movies.

I'd like to direct some, act in some of them, and produce.

It's a very difficult business, and I'm very interested in the future of it after I'm gone, and I thought that if I can't produce a strong management team here myself, and I can find better management elsewhere, then I should sell it.

Despite its flaws, the American electoral system has produced Lincoln, the two Roosevelts, and Harry Truman.

I'll proudly stand with one of the great leaders this state and country have ever produced: Rick Perry.