Carl R. Hanson Quotes

I think I did a lot for my division. My division is my story.

You can get a lot done when you don't care about credit. My name was not on Medicaid expansion, but it never would have happened without the work that I did. The best leaders are the ones that want results, not credit.

I want to believe that those who have been appointed to accomplish this mission will be totally committed, devoting all their skills and determination to their work. I urge you to lend them your support so that, together, we can build that bright future worthy of our country.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

You have to know one big thing and stick with it. The leaders who had one very big idea and one very big commitment. This permitted them to create something. Those are the ones who leave a legacy.

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.

High office—whether elected, appointed, or simply taken—comes with power. But that is not a sufficient precondition for success. Among the world’s hundreds …, only a few really stand out for the risks that they have taken and the changes they have made

One man of tolerable Abilities may work great Changes, and accomplish great Affairs among Mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and … makes the execution of that same plan his sole Study and Business.

Leadership does matter.

If there was no Bill Bowerman, there would have been no me. He had about as much of an impact on my life as any one person could have. He taught me about competition and ingrained it in me. He taught me not to praise ordinary performances.

When you have a good vision and a very large capability of impact, that's very powerful.

Yes is what I like doing more than anything else. Somewhere along the way, as people came and went, it fell to me to kind of keep it going and oversee the spirit of the enterprise, as it were.

The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.

I always had to prove myself through my actions. Be a cheerleader. Be class president. Be the editor of the newspaper.

Anybody doing something brings something to it.

History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.

Every team that I've played on, I've either been the captain or co-captain.

You can't put a price on what Mark McGwire brings to the Cardinals organization. The responsibility he accepts is as great as any number of home runs.

The decisions you make affect a lot of people. You have investors, employees, and customers who all rely on you. Being a leader is a 24-hour-a-day job.

Starting a company is like going to war. You can't do anything else but be fully engaged. You have to be insanely, passionately, nothing-can-stop-me committed.

A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

For me, leadership is making a difference. It's using your agency to bring about change.

Whenever a high-profile leader dies, people immediately attempt to summarize that person's life in a sentence. Often, critics and commentators get caught up looking at the leader's style, or which political or philosophical camp they represented.

There's nothing worse than a leader who lacks ambition.