Quotes About Leadership

I think I'm fairly demanding, probably. You have to feel that when you're appointed to a job you have to do the job.

I think I'm a guy that can relate to everyone and is fairly close with everyone on the team and can try to help bring guys together. That's what I tried to focus on when I was in Erie and I felt everyone was a part of the team. I definitely try to lead that way; I'm not the big rah-rah guy.

We have to have the faithful in government.

My friends... feel there are not that many people they can really look up to. They feel people are so hypocritical and fake... But I do have some people I respect, a great number of people, and I'm sure my friends have.

We have what we call 'fake left' politicians, like Ed Miliband and those who went before him.

Our nation's leaders are fallible. It is therefore time for us to be our own heroes. We can and must be the leaders that are so desperately needed.

Anyone can show exceptional leadership ability in easy times. When all's going to plan, anyone can be inspirational/excellent/innovative and strong. The real question is how do you show up when everything's falling apart?

Your shot might not be falling, but there's still lots of other things you can do on the court.

It's contagious to do great. But once that one bad apple falls, everybody else will fall, and that's how it is.

Well, Barry, it's your film. So if it rises or falls, you're the man.

New York... when civilization falls apart, remember, we were way ahead of you.

I think it's false to believe that anything good is going to start from the top.

After they killed Uday and Qusay, the focus centered on Saddam: Find him, kill him, capture him, whatever it takes. To me, it was a false sense of security: If we get Saddam, we're going to win this war.

I won't do a role which children in my family cannot look up to.

I've seen it again and again in my consulting: Most teams are too large to be innovative, despite their leaders' best intentions.

Some of the people on the teams I've been on need to be uplifted and kind of loved on. And some people don't need that at all - they need to be pushed; more hyped up.

In the military, and in business, the most elite and effective teams I've seen or been part of are filled with individuals who take responsibility for their choices. Life is a series of decisions that you make and actions you take, not a series of things that happen to you.

There is still a big onus to be coached. I understand the best teams don't need a huge amount of coaching, but that's when a coach should decide not to do coaching.

Most coaches would consider leading a team to an Olympic gold medal a capper for a pretty good year. The same goes for winning an NCAA national championship. Or a FIBA world championship. Mike Krzyzewski, head coach of the Duke Blue Devils and Team USA, led teams to each of these honors... within about 24 months.

I'm a good special teams coach, and I can recruit.

I'm a player that usually focus on my team, try to give the best for my team-mates, and I don't look much at what the other teams do.

I was the girl who got out of my athletic requirement by managing the boys' sports teams. Which is pretty ingenious, because when I was a sophomore, I got a prom date out of it. That was really strong planning on my part.

I have had the privilege to be a member of many high-performance teams at NASA, both on and off the planet.

I think different teams have different challenges as you go through.