Leadership Quotes

The art of leadership is a serious matter. One must not lag behind a movement, because to do so is to become isolated from the masses. But one must not rush ahead, for to rush ahead is to lose contact with the masses. He who wished to lead a movement must conduct a fight on two fronts--against those who lag behind and those who rush ahead.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

The path to the CEO's office should not be through the CFO's office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design.

Technology leadership is not defined by patents, which history has repeatedly shown to be small protection indeed against a determined competitor, but rather by the ability of a company to attract and motivate the world's most talented engineers.

My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.

I feel like my job as CEO is always to be pushing people ahead.

So, since becoming CEO again, I've pushed hard to increase our velocity, improve our execution, and focus on the big bets that will make a difference in the world.

Deep knowledge from your manager goes a long way toward motivating you. And I have a pretty good capability for that.

I think companies have a big problem making a big transition, so leaders get replaced.

It's hard to keep things moving. And that's always a big trick. I think for me, the key is setting really big goals. And, you know, with YouTube, I think we've had tremendous leadership, both with the founders and now with Salar, who's been running it.

We need somebody that literally will take this country and make it great again. We can do that.

Weak and tired Republican "leadership" will allow the bad Defense Bill to pass.

Republican leadership only wants the path of least resistance. Our leaders (not me, of course!) are pathetic.

They actually taunted him, if you really look at it. Our country, and our so-called leadership, taunted Putin. I said, you know, they're almost forcing him to go in with what they're saying. The rhetoric was so dumb.

You're the greatest cutter. I need an Elon Musk - I need somebody that has a lot of strength and courage and smarts. I want to close up the Department of Education, move education back to the states.

Leaders, true leaders, take responsibility for the success of the team and understand that they must also take responsibility for the failure.

Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can't control.

If it stands the test of public scrutiny, do it... if it doesn't stand the test of public scrutiny then don't do it.

I would say that I'm blessed with a very, very good executive team that operates, reasonably autonomously, each of the companies.

I'm the non-executive chairman of nine or so major companies, and on the nine companies, it's a little trying because you jump from one industry to another, as the case might be. But one had the reasonable knowledge of those nine activities, and it's been an exciting job.