Leadership Quotes

You have to be burning with "an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right." If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.

Manage the top line: your strategy, your people, and your products, and the bottom line will follow.

Find people who are competent and really bright, but more importantly, people who care exactly about the same things you care about.

You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their best.

We've got to make the small things unforgettable.

Companies must have a noble cause, and it's the leaders job to transform that noble cause into such an inspiring vision, that it will attract the most talented people in the world to want to join it.

My job is to make the whole executive team good enough to be successors, so that's what I try to do.

Ask for feedback from people with diverse backgrounds. Each one will tell you one useful thing. If you're at the top of the chain, sometimes people won't give you honest feedback because they're afraid. In this case, disguise yourself, or get feedback from other sources.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

The Savior of the whole world chose twelve disciples, and even one of that small number, selected by superhuman wisdom, turned out a traitor and a devil.

The presidency, even to the most experienced politicians, is no bed of roses.

Stand on middle ground and hold the ship level and steady.

The Union, in any event, won't be dissolved. We don't want to dissolve it, and if you attempt it, we won't let you.

I must, in candor, say I do not think myself fit for the Presidency.

While I hold myself without mock modesty, the humblest of all individuals that have ever been elevated to the Presidency, I have a more difficult task to perform than any one of them.

I have often pondered over the dangers which were incurred by the men who assembled here, and framed and adopted that Declaration of Independence. I have pondered over the toils that were endured by the officers and soldiers of the army who achieved that Independence.

I am a patient man - always willing to forgive on the Christian terms of repentance; and also to give ample time for repentance.

I shall do nothing in malice. What I deal with is too vast for malicious dealing.

I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.

If there is a worse place than hell, I am in it.