Stephanie Cutter Quotes

If you call yourself a leader, then you have to be decisive. If you're decisive, then you have the chance to be a leader. These are two sides to the same coin.

The key things are about power and about growing up and realizing as you grow up that there are consequences for the choices you make, especially when you get seduced by power.

Certainly I shall not be one of those who, having gained power, do not wish to use it.

Whether it's a blessing or a curse, it's a fact that we have power. Everyone—friend and enemy—looks to see how we use it, how we treat it, how we keep it.

I learned a tremendous amount about what was important to me as a head coach in that I was not in charge. I didn't have final say about what was going on, and I was always having to represent other people's views, and it was very difficult to be real, to be authentic, to be true because there were a number of people who had say about what was going on.

Leadership is not a popularity contest; it's about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title.

It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern.

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.

A day may sink or save a realm.

You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership; if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.

When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy.

Governance is a way of organizing, amplifying, and constraining power.

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you're held responsible for everything, but you don't always have control of everything, right?

Being a leader doesn't mean you created something or you did something great in the past or some other person has given you any kind of authority.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.

Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.

In the end, as a leader, you are always going to get a combination of two things: what you create and what you allow.

Responsibility means nothing if you do not have a forum in which to exercise it.

There is only one way to respond to the issue of leadership and that is to lead.

With great power goes great responsibility.

The person who manages the state is me.

To govern is to chose.