Steve Schmidt Quotes

I'm an entrepreneur. 'Ambitious' is my middle name.

I've been preparing to run a big company all my life.

Oprah Winfrey is a big role model for me from a business capacity and a creative capacity. She is an incredible interviewer who cultivated a certain style by inserting her own personhood into a show on national television at a time when no one was talking about empowerment, spirituality, or our inner lives.

Musk is very inspiring to me.

Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.

I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember.

The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.

Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.

Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's where charisma comes from, from the leading.

I'm proud of my status as a pioneer in this business.

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

I want to be the Mexican-American Oprah Winfrey. That's a small goal, isn't it? That's something that I want. And of course not just to host, I want to OWN it! So, that's in my future.

The reason I've been able to maintain my position of chairman of CBS in addition to all the Viacom stuff is my team.

People who dream of something bigger and better are good role models.

Leadership is one of the things I really strive to excel in in my life.

Think about all the great leaders. Think about Obama. Think about Clinton. Think about Nelson Mandela. Think about all the people that we know who are very successful in business, in politics and religion. What are they? They tell purposeful stories. They move people to action by aiming at the heart.

Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.

My style is to keep folks in place who are good managers and want to win.

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Follow the fellow who follows a dream.

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

I once said, 'Steve Jobs is the American Xavier Niel,' but that was humour.

True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

I think Steve Jobs is my idol.