Michael Mullen Quotes

We have the best leaders and the most depth of leadership we've ever had. If I get hit by a truck, maybe it would get me out of the way and it would go better.

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

Most people who want to get ahead do it backward. They think, 'I'll get a bigger job, then I'll learn how to be a leader.' But showing leadership skill is how you get the bigger job in the first place. Leadership isn't a position, it's a process.

I think leadership is both a trained thing and a natural gift.

Not everyone will become a great leader, but everyone can become a better leader.

The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it.

Leadership cannot be taught. Either you're a leader by the time you're 12 years old, or you never will be.

There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led.

Leaders are not born, they're made.

The only way I can work is if I care and am passionate about a project, so the challenge is to find projects that I feel that way about.

Leader’s potential is determined by those closest to him.

Grow a leader-grow the organization. A company cannot grow without until its leaders grow within.

Without leadership ability,a person's impact is only a fraction of what it could be with good leadership.

Leadership doesn't come from age.

The higher you want to climb, the more you need leadership. The greater the impact you want to make, the greater your influence needs to be. Whatever you will accomplish is restricted by your ability to lead others.

Every single person has leadership ability. Some step up and take them. Some don't. My answer was to step up and lead.

I had a desire to do TV and wanted to get in, in the right way, knowing that I was going to learn a lot, along the way.

We must be prepared to keep pace with our leaders, stride for their every lengthened stride.

My brushwork is quite unsystematic. I slam the paint on in all sorts of ways and leave each result to take care of itself.

We're going to take care of our military - the people in our military, the finest people we have.

I don't care if the Koch brothers or Soros spend their money to promote one candidate or another. I care about members of Congress spending 30%-70% of their time raising money from .05% of us. Change the way we fund elections and you change the corruption.

Resistance, whether to one's appetites or to the ways of the world, is a chief factor in the shaping of character.

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.

In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Excited. In a good way. I've been training my whole life for this.