Gail Collins Quotes

I don't think you can impose a social order from the top down.

I don't believe in traditional company structures because the best ideas do not always come from the top.

I think leadership is never singular. In a good organization, it's plural.

[Martin Luther ] King didn't pick his leadership position. Most movements are not started by single people.

I think a revolution can survive without single centralized leadership.

I don't think top-down works in America.

I consider myself a leader of this football team, along with a lot of other guys.

You can't win unless you have good people with great attitude. They are the ones who won the games. I didn't win any games. You never saw a coach make a tackle anywhere. My philosophy was to get the best players and then try to do something new with them.

I think there's always an adjustment when somebody new is runnings things, from the top down.

There was a lot of passion with Klopp, I felt that most in the dressing room before games. He always had a big smile. He hugged every player. I loved his attitude - he was never nervous. He gave us confidence.

There are similarities with Angela Merkel, there are issues that separate us, and I'm showing that genuinely and authentically and won't create an artificial separation because it has something to do with character and attitude.

Leadership is a matter of how to be - not how to do it.

I believe in decentralized management that includes a lot of delegation, empowerment, and accountability.

What I am proposing is that we invest from the middle out and the ground up, not the top down. That is not going to work.

If there is to be an ecologically sound society, it will have to come the grass roots up, not from the top down.

America has a right to be a leader. This leadership should be realized through partnership, not domination.

Many managers feel, somewhat cynically, that people are being paid to do their jobs and that's that. This attitude reflects an insensitivity to people that is a trademark of many hockey-style managers.

When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.

Leadership is a concept we often resist. It seems immodest, even self-aggrandizing, to think of ourselves as leaders. But if it is true that we are part of a community, then leadership is everyone's vocation, and it can be an evasion to insist that it is not. When we live in the close-knit ecosystem called community, everyone follows and everyone leads.

Hope that there are many, many small leaders.

In a world that is changing as rapidly as this one, we need to think differently about leadership. Leading is not done by those few in high places, but by parents and teachers and managers and those governing -- all working together to create the world that we want.

I often say that leadership is deeply personal and inherently collective. That's a paradox that effective leaders have to embrace.

We must renew the economy from the bottom up, not top down.

Leadership has less to do with position than it does with disposition.

We need to move from the leader as hero, to the leader as host.