Quotes about Leadership

Growth makes management easier. In particular, it makes making labor concessions seem easy. It's when growth stops because you're being disrupted that managing becomes really, really hard, and as a result, most disrupted companies simply disappear.

The heart regulates the hands.

When God's wise and loving rule over you is replaced with self-rule, other people become your subjects.

We are called to be people of great character so that, when we come in contact with the world, our character influences those around us.

When I came in, the city was on the edge of bankruptcy. I'm proud of what I did. I built the foundation that mayors after me built upon - particularly Bloomberg. But the foundation was essential because if it hadn't occurred, we would have been another Detroit.

We must, from the highest office in the land right down to the shoeshine boy in the airport, have a return to biblical basics.

Theoretically, every probationary officer has a chance to become chairman.

If we provide the young with a strong foundation, we can leave behind a legacy substantially greater than most are able to bequeath. As for the women, the old adage that you invest in a woman, you invest in a generation, still rings true today.

Every time we have a woman on-screen, we can empower her in a different way rather than just giving a speech on the importance of equality and empowerment. I think sometimes we have to show her as powerful.

I aspire to be that, to be a voice of reason one day.

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

Yet ruled he not long, so great had been his suffering, and so bitter the fire of his testing, for after the space of three years he died. And he who came after him ruled evilly.