Mitt Romney Quotes

A team of giants needs giant pitchers who throw good ideas but every pitcher needs an outstanding catcher. Without giant catchers, the ideas of the giant pitchers may eventually disappear.

I'm very much a leader in a lot of the work that I do or that I've done in my career.

I've always been a leader. Every team I've played on, I've led my way.

I work strategically with my management team to make all decisions.

Candidates need to demonstrate strategic thinking and strong problem solving skills. And, just as importantly, they need to know when and how to ask for help.

Engineers have shown to embody a tremendous amount of leadership skills through the collaborative educational environment.

I've seen Coach Saban over the years have to make a lot of tough decisions, and there's not one decision he doesn't make that he doesn't bounce ideas off the staff. To me, that's invaluable.

That is what a good manager does - you study and think and discuss, and you come up with a model of playing.

I have a lot of common sense. I know what needs to be done and how to approach it. I have an ability to work with people on large enterprises.

I think the job of leadership is to expand what can be talked about and to get consensus on the nature of the problem, and that is most of the job. Because once you do that, once you have diagnosis, treatment options are obvious.

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

Well, the first quality of being a good leader is you have to be able to follow. See, a good leader can't just be the leader all the time, I have to be able to follow.

I think leadership is knowing what you want to achieve and then purposefully and sensibly taking steps to achieve it, remembering always that you have got to bring people with you if you are seeking to be a successful political leader.

The experience of learning how to get straight to the core of a problem proved to be of immense value later when I had a long succession of responsibilities in large, complex government departments.

Management teams aren't good at asking questions. In business school, we train them to be good at giving answers.

Men of routine or men who can do what they are told are not hard to find; but men who can think and plan and tell the routine men what to do are very rare.

Effective management always means asking the right question.

I need to build my team around my weaknesses.

True leadership isn't about having an idea. It's about having an idea and recruiting other people to execute on this vision.

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Victims recite problems. Leaders develop solutions. That might seem like common sense, but common sense is rarely common practice.

I like being a leader in real life.

If you're in such a position of power and your ego is such that this is not possible, then its essential to have a small cadre of very bright, committed people who are questioning, exploring and understanding these emerging concepts.

As a director, you have to understand what is happening - if I don't understand it, you can't make changes.

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.