Bill O'Brien Quotes

Donald Trump's leadership, decision-making and problem solving will restore America's role as the undeniable and unquestioned world leader.

I'm able to bring business expertise but, more importantly, operating experience. The people here at Google are young. Every day there are lots of new challenges. I keep things focused. The speech I give everyday is: "This is what we do. Is what you are doing consistent with that, and does it change the world?"

Leadership is solving problems.

Transformation al leaders don't start by denying the world around them. Instead, they describe a future they'd like to create instead.

If a leader cannot give you a clear picture of what he or she sees in the future, that person is not the leader of that organization.

You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles. Other people can cope with the waves, it's his job to watch the tide.

Think ahead. Don't let day-to-day operations drive out planning.

I don't want to over generalize, but I believe that women are typically drawn to leadership styles that focus on consensus building, effective listening and working in teams. That's certainly been my leadership style, and I think it's been very successful.

Hope and change? We're not doing that anymore. They're doing attack and blame. And so, I just think people are going to see through this. They want real leadership. They want us to get this country on the right track.

Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.

An executive is a person who always decides sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.

It’s not the man; it’s the plan.

All good Presidents are supple.

I was a biographer of MacArthur and Eisenhower. Eisenhower was smarter. MacArthur was more glib. When MacArthur had a problem, he turned it over to Eisenhower.

I got a boss mentality.

Mancini knows what he is doing. He has to put faith in the youth; otherwise, the country will never grow.

Let us not confuse objectives with methods. Too many so-called leaders of the nation fail to see the forest because of the trees. Too many of them fail to recognize the vital necessity of planning for definite objectives. True leadership calls for the setting forth of the objectives and the rallying of public opinion in support of these objectives.

Whoever is providing leadership needs to be as fresh and thoughtful and reflective as possible to make the very best fight.

I think there is a big and significant difference between being a leader and being a manager-leaders lead from the heart. You have to be analytical and flexible. Flexibility is one of the key ingredients to being successful. If you feel like it's difficult to change, you will probably have a harder time succeeding.

The leader is the organization's top strategist... systematically envisioning the future and specifically mapping out how to get there.

Men of action," whose minds are too busy with the day's work to see beyond it. They are essential men, we cannot do without them, and yet we must not allow all our vision to be bound by the limitations of "men of action.

What we are looking for is managers who are awake enough to alter the world as they find it, to make it harmonize with what they and their people are trying to accomplish.

A leader's job is to look into the future and see the organization, not as it is, but as it should be

However tight things are, you still need to have the big picture at the forefront of your mind.

The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions, for life is a kind of chess.