Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon Quotes

Is that wise, darling? Remember you have to reign all afternoon

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

Gotta watch out for directors.

Being responsible, I will direct, and will be responsible for nothing that I do not direct.

If you're a manager you can't get frustrated and be emotional. You have to continue to steer the ship, you can't let go of the wheel because who knows where it will go then.

Real vision demands that we make tough choices. Real vision is responsible and it is paid for.

I think it is important for people who are given leadership roles to assume that role immediately.

I always liked the idea of leadership and being a captain.

Leadership demands that we make tough choices.

The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

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.

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

In a very real way, ownership is the essence of leadership. When you are 'ridiculously in charge,' then you own whatever happens in a company, school, et cetera.

I have to give him and I have to have 100 percent of his confidence…. If I do not have his confidence, someone else should be chief of staff.

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

It's one thing to make the speeches. It's another to make the tough decisions.

Work all by counsel and you shall not rue.

The person who manages the state is me.

The statesman must weigh the rewards of success against the penalties of failure. And he is permitted only one guess.

I find nothing so painful as having to lead men.

Whenever a question is of some importance, it should not be decided on the day when it is submitted to you. Whenever it is not an urgent one, I make it a rule not to let any question be forced upon my immediate decision; … And even when in my mind I am disposed to accede, still I always keep the papers with me some little time before I return them.

To lead or to parent means not being liked sometimes.

I've put a lot of thought into being a leader.

A leader can't pick and choose when he wants to lead.

I've always tried to be a leader.