Quotes about "Leadership & Influence"

Ann Radcliffe was an early influence; I devoured her books while I should have been studying for my GCSEs. ”

The individual whose vision encompasses the whole world often feels nowhere so hedged in and out of touch with his surroundings as in his native land. ”

Yugoslavia was a kind of superpower. Great movies. Beautiful novels. Great rock-and-roll. We became a superpower in basketball. The problem is that people needed to identify more strongly with it after Tito and his awful, tricky way of leading the country. ”

It's unfortunate that the U.K. and Europe don't have the kind of culture which esteems legal protections enforced by the courts in the same way as, for example, the U.S. does. ”

Art imitates life. It's definitely helpful to feel that way. You feel that way when you're leading a show and you're on a set. ”

Adhering to budgeting rules shouldn't trump good decision-making. ”

The key to good decision making is evaluating the available information - the data - and combining it with your own estimates of pluses and minuses. As an economist, I do this every day. ”

Good household decision-making often relies on thinking about your household like a firm. ”

Feminists of my mother's generation argued that both mom and dad should work a little less and each do some of the household chores. My parents, for example, split everything 50/50. Even though my father is a terrible cook, he still made dinner exactly half the time. ”

We speculate as to what is in store for us. But we not only undergo events, we in part cause them or at least influence their course. We have not only to study them but to act. ”