Quotes about "Leadership & Influence"

Dad was an outstanding leader. He'd bring in top thinkers from a wide array of fields - how to fix the Detroit schools, for example. I watched him in these meetings. He listened and probed. ”

The country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We have to offer an alternative vision. ”

The President of the United States has long been the leader of the free world. The president and, yes, the nominees of the country's great parties help define America to billions of people. All of them bear the responsibility of being an example for our children and grandchildren. ”

Instead of leading the world by how much we borrow, it's time that we make sure we lead the world in how much we build and create and invest. ”

My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences. ”

Yes, I do bring something of my own to the plate. But I strongly believe that a film is a director and writer's vision. ”

Especially if you don't have a job that's providing fulfillment in your technical expertise, there is a lot of reward to working on a very smart and demanding community that will respect you and will give you leadership and authority based on what you do. ”

We've broken the code base into logical chunks, called modules, and the foundation staff delegate authority for the modules to people with the most expertise. ”

In the last 100 years, three presidents suffered big defeats in Congress in their first term and then won reelection: Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, and the most recent example, Bill Clinton. ”

I give Bill Gates an A for vision because, as a business person and a strategist, he's brilliant. His flaw is that his view is not informed by a humanistic or compassionate vision of how to make computers work for people. ”