Huda Kattan Quotes

Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.

The women executives in the film industry have the power to say, 'No,' but few of them have the power to say, 'Yes.'

I certainly know there are people in positions of power in the business who lack imagination and, perhaps as a result of that, think of me as 'David'. But I wouldn't really want to work with those people, you know?

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

I have a job I'm pretty good at. I am in charge of things. I am on committees. People respect me and take my counsel. I want to be strong and professional, but I resent how hard I have to work to be taken seriously, to receive a fraction of the consideration I might otherwise receive.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

Let them hate as long as they fear.

Our job is quite strange in that we hire a coach, and therefore, we're the boss. But coaches tell us what to do, and I think some coaches might struggle with the idea of a girl being the boss and telling them, 'I don't want to see you now. I want to have some time to myself.'

I think that Netanyahu is a bit intimidated of and afraid of President Trump.

Xavier McDaniel made me respect him. I thought I could do anything I wanted to. He grabbed me one time and almost choked me out. He said, 'You're going to do this. You're going to go get coffee. You're going to go get doughnuts.' It's a game of respect.

We would rather be feared than respected.

You can't be loved for long if you're not feared.

The supreme rulers are hardly known by their subjects. The lesser are loved and praised. The even lesser are feared. The least are despised.

It's not everybody that can handle firing Denzel Washington or coming to blows and saying, 'This is what's happening because I said so.' Usually, it's the reverse.

I've played Frankie Cosmos shows where the promoter or whoever sees that I'm the lead singer, and then they go up to David, the bassist, and are like, 'So, do we pay you?' And he's like, 'No, you pay her; she's the boss.' Those are moments where I'm just like, 'I'm clearly in charge.'

My dad's a businessman, and I grew up looking up to him, how he dressed to go to work and, whenever I went to his office, how he spoke to people.

When a club legend becomes your manager, he automatically gets the attention of the players, purely because he had been there and done that.

When you're young, it's hard to lead people that are older than you.

Leadership is something which other people have to recognize. You cannot demand that I am a leader.

I'd always thought leadership was a CEO or president or person in a position of power. And honestly, to me, that meant a man - because that's what I was reading about in history books growing up.

Who can love the man he fears. or by who he thinks he is himself feared?

Show respect for those in power, but do not follow them blindly.

If a man continually blusters, if he lacks civility, a big stick will not save him from trouble, and neither will speaking softly avail, if back of the softness there does not lie strength, power.

Women were the ones that held the reins, it emerged.

The greater the power that deigns to serve you, the more honor it demands of you.