Good leadership is to know when to go, and you only succeed as a good leader if you've transported someone else in and the company gets stronger. Then you've succeeded as leader.
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INDRA NOOYI I think overall, from a deputy, from an undersecretary standpoint, the goal of a good leader is to g... SONNY PERDUE As long as I get those running shoes on, then there's no turning back, and I have to go for that... KIM RAVER #Leadership is inspiration and if you are not inspiring others, then you are not a leader. LALIT BHOJWANI You shouldn't go around the world behaving ruthlessly when you don't have to. Sometimes you ... FELIX DENNIS When you're doing a medieval show like 'Pillars,' it starts off a bit like a school play... IAN MCSHANE Ultimately as a leader, you're evaluated on how you interact with people. If you do it well, you... DOUGLAS CONANT Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as ... LARRY BIRD So long as you've got your friends about you, and a good positive attitude, you don't really... GAIL PORTER Most of the time, I've got my kids with me, so I'm not as prone to meeting people. And then,... 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OWEN HART If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off. CHUCK YEAGER If you can make yourself symmetrical, you're sending out a sign that you've got good genes, ... MARCUS DU SAUTOY In order to have a charismatic leader, you have to have a charismatic program. Because if you have a... JOHN HENRIK CLARKE My thing is, and I've always been this way - to get to know as many people as I possibly can on ... RUSSELL WILSON You've got to figure out how you're going to come in and significantly impact and redefine a... AUDREY MACLEAN I don't like the idea of 'I've played nine years, I've made some All-Star teams, I m... MATT HOLLIDAY You've got so much confidence if you start making big putts because you know you just need to hi... LOUIS OOSTHUIZEN The thing about growing old is you have to accept it - if you don't, you'll be as miserable ... JUDY PARFITT It is not about whether you call yourself a leader or not. It is about what you have to show to peop... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR And as an actor - or even as a person in the industry - if you're unwilling to change, you'r... CLINT HOWARD If you call yourself a leader, then you have to be decisive. If you're decisive, then you have t... NARENDRA MODI I don't care how many championships you've won or how many records you've broken - if yo... ABBY WAMBACH Let me tell you what I literally told every world leader I've met with, and I've met them al... JOE BIDEN Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be. JEFFREY FRY When you've been a character in a movie - and this has happened when we've done concerts as ... CHRISTOPHER GUEST I think that if you do want to be a fighter, then you need to work harder than everybody else and ma... LAILA ALI If I succeed in business but fail as a father, then I've failed. MARK WAHLBERG My thing is you're only as good as the people you work with. I've been blessed to work with ... TERRY CREWS You know, as most entrepreneurs do, that a company is only as good as its people. The hard part is a... KATHRYN MINSHEW Leadership does take work. And it should. If you aspire to be a leader, you ought to treat leadershi... DOUGLAS CONANT You've got to be a disciplined person if you want to succeed both in sport and in life. LYNN DAVIES Leadership is inspiration and if you are not inspiring you are not a leader. LALIT BHOJWANI I've been really clear that my first job as leader of the Labour Party and co-leader of the labo... DAVID CUNLIFFE When you are scoring runs, you automatically become a good leader because you are armed with so much... MOHAMMAD AZHARUDDIN A guy's biggest style mistake is definitely trying to look too cool. As long as you've got a... LUKE EVANS I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, i... GAUTAM GAMBHIR When you love someone, and you've lost that one, then nothing really matters. AGNETHA FALTSKOG Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's ... SETH GODIN I always say you've only got one life to live, and you're not promised a tomorrow. So, you m... FANTASIA BARRINO Well, the first quality of being a good leader is you have to be able to follow. See, a good leader ... LISA LESLIE I've always liked to dress up; I've always liked to look good. You look good, you feel good,... ODELL BECKHAM, JR. Contempt is the only asymmetrical facial expression, so it's easy to spot once you're aware ... PAMELA MEYER I've got to tell you what, the soldier doesn't fight very hard for a leader who is going to ... NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF As an actor, you've worked very hard, and you've been doing this for 20-some years, and Will... DAVID A. R. WHITE The question was, in a sense, at Princeton Review, how much value was I adding as a public company C... JOHN KATZMAN You're only as old as you feel, and I feel pretty young. I've got one gear, and till it gets... A.J. STYLES It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a... COLIN HAY I've been very lucky, from the beginning. I've found that as long as you're fundamentall... ANDREW MASON Sometimes, when things are going really well, I feel like I've already seen things - it's th... COLIN KAEPERNICK If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose. CHARLES BUKOWSKI I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someon... RICHARD M. NIXON I said to Ruth Rendell, 'When you've written as many books as you have, it's easier.'... VAL MCDERMID If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader. DEBASISH MRIDHA Making a movie is a network of decisions that keep multiplying as you go. You leave a trail of decis... SYDNEY POLLACK I'm officially near-famous. If you've got four year old kids and you've got cable, then ... STEVE BURNS You've got to make sure every decision you make is right for you as a person. If you think you c... ALAN SMITH You know, the truth is this: it is a leader's job to challenge the status quo. And when you do, ... CARLY FIORINA I work as hard as anybody will ever work and I like that. That's why I've been successful an... MARK WAHLBERG With learning lines, before I had Alfie, I'd put it off and think, 'Oh, I'll just have a... LESLEY MANVILLE You can only call someone crazy if there’s someone else who’s normal. Like good and evil. If eve... RICK YANCEY One thing my mom taught me was that when you're making deviled eggs, flip the eggs over the nigh... TRISHA YEARWOOD You've gotta be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for? BERNADETTE PETERS I would assert that highly effective leaders are made more than they're born. Every leader I kno... DOUGLAS CONANT A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the othe... NELSON MANDELA If you're setting up lights and tripods, and you've got three assistants running around, peo... D. A. PENNEBAKER We give a lot of others significance in our lives even when they don't deserve it. It doesn'... GABRIELLE UNION People think that if you've written a book and somebody's given you a pat on the back then, ... BARRY LOPEZ When you walk into a doctor's office, you've got to have the same attitude you would about a... TOM BROKAW Marry someone who flatters you. Because I've written 80 books since 'War Horse' but when... MICHAEL MORPURGO I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't... CARL REINER When you've travelled for 34 years as a musician, you do all the culture stuff when you're y... PETER HOOK If you're doing something new you've got to have a vision. You've got to have a perspect... STEVE CASE If you decide you want to be treated good, and you treat someone else good, or you want to learn som... ORNETTE COLEMAN If you've got a huge Hollywood star in your film, they're getting $32 million, and everyone ... ROBBIE COLTRAINE When you're friends with someone, you can't just go out to dinner and say 'O.K., now thi... DAVE GOLDBERG My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've... LEE IACOCCA If you've chosen someone to be in your bridal party, she should be a good enough friend that she... GEORGINA CHAPMAN You've got to invest in the world, you've got to read, you've got to go to art galleries... VIVIENNE WESTWOOD I guess you're happy if you have some kind of balance in you. I'm a human being. I have days... FRANCES CONROY If someone tried to deprive you of your rights, you've got to resist it. You've got to resen... A. PHILIP RANDOLPH To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who d... JOE NAMATH I know people who've had a nose job, and they've walked out feeling a million dollars, and t... LOUISE NURDING As a leader, you don't get too high on the highs or let the bumps balance down. Every leader ove... JOHN T. CHAMBERS
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TONY ABBOTT I went to parochial grammar school, and I give thanks to the Catholic training because of course, th... TONY ORLANDO Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military po... TONY SNOW The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets... TONY BLAIR If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves ... TONY SNOW If recycling is the future, then we must focus our efforts on mitigating negative impacts to our com... TONY CARDENAS Honestly, the best skater that I've seen who raps is Tyler, The Creator. He really can skate... ... TONY HAWK When you break your pelvis, you can't do a whole lot. It took me about six weeks to be able to g... TONY HAWK You just have to adapt, and you have to realize where people are going to actually play their games.... TONY HAWK I jumped between two seven-story buildings in Los Angeles, launching from one rooftop to the other w... TONY HAWK I love the fact that there is now a skate park in almost every city, but it will always have a rebel... TONY HAWK If I can stand up when I'm 80, I'll be happy to cruise around on a skateboard. If I feel lik... TONY HAWK Don't be afraid of girls. That is my big regret. Knowing what I know about girls, I should have ... TONY HAWK I changed high schools three times because my parents moved. I had one friend my freshman year named... TONY HAWK My youngest son's pre-school class was recently asked what their dads do for work. The responses... TONY HAWK I love snowboarding, but I would never want to do it competitively or at a professional level. Snowb... TONY HAWK I wanted to promote skateboarding as much as possible through different media. TONY HAWK The pro skaters I know are responsible members of society. Many of them are fathers, homeowners, wor... TONY HAWK I believe that people should take pride in what they do, even if it is scorned or misunderstood by t... TONY HAWK I was skating with friends in my neighborhood, and then eventually I was invited to go to the skate ... TONY HAWK If you look at the success of snowboarding in the Winter Games and how that's brought a more you... TONY HAWK Technology has allowed me to reach my fans directly. Social media: it has been a complete revolution... TONY HAWK I was nerdy and really into computers. I was a good student until my senior year, when I started tra... TONY HAWK I won't quit skating until I am physically unable. TONY HAWK If you have a game with your name on it, you have to learn how to play. TONY HAWK There is no such thing as failure. There are only results. TONY ROBBINS Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident bec... TONY JAA