Mao Zedong Quotes

Leadership matters and solving things before a crisis is important.

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

Good leaders need a positive agenda, not just an agenda of dealing with crisis.

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

He who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.

If you wait until you have all the facts, then it will be too late..

When I'm on the field, if something doesn't go exactly as it's planned, I'm going to say something before a coach is going to say something. I'm going to get to it quicker and try to get it corrected.

When you lead, you have to lead from the front.

You can't lay back and wait for somebody else to do it. And I think if the president's made a mistake here, it's this laid-back kind of approach where he's waiting for someone else to solve the problem.

If you don't choose to do it in leadership time up front, you do it in crisis management time down the road.

Take care of what is difficult while it is still easy, and deal with what will become big while it is yet small.

Meeting the challenges of the future requires a state that can think and act strategically.

Good captains know the strengths and weaknesses of their teams and make decisions accordingly.

Leaders make things happen. Leaders will take a situation and try and figure out what is it that we're trying to do, what is the problem, what kind of priorities and resources do we need, what kind of people do I need to bring to bear on this problem, what kind of plans do we need to succeed.

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

It's bad policy to speculate on what you'll do if a plan fails when you're trying to make a plan work.

I prefer to just jump into something instead of put it on the back burner, and I suppose that's how I deal with most challenging things. I'd rather just attack it head-on.

The foreman today does not merely deal with trouble, he forestalls trouble. In fact, we don't think much of a foreman who is always dealing with trouble; we feel that if he is doing his job properly, there won't be so much trouble.

A leader has a sound program, has a good policy, and then brings people together to solve problems.

I was popular at some times and not so popular at other times. But what mattered was trying to solve problems and deal with circumstances. Some of which I was able to anticipate. Some of which caught us totally by surprise.

That's the art of leadership. To make sure that what shouldn't happen, doesn't happen.

Any Idiot can point out a problem .... A leader is willing to do something about it! Leaders solve problems!

Victims recite problems, leaders provide solutions.

I think what you expect of every candidate and ultimately of a president is to listen to the facts and to deal with things in a way that's smart and direct. I'm confident that's exactly what President [Donald] Trump will do.

One of the things I preach to all my staff is never be frightened to make a decision.