Barbara Mikulski Quotes

I hope that I am winning a way which others will keep open.

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.

My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'

Anita Roddick was amazing. Her presence in a room was full of light, and everything she worked to achieve still resonates now.

While a lab Director can get done the things that he regards as important, he has the more important job of bringing out the best ideas of the broader scientific community.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

True leaders don't invest in buildings. Jesus never built a building. They invest in people. Why? Because success without a successor is failure. So your legacy should not be in buildings, programs, or projects; your legacy must be in people.

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

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

I think that my leadership style is to get people to fear staying in place, to fear not changing.

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

The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.

I was brought up in a family of leaders, and I think leadership is a life sentence. I like changing things that will shape the future.

Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.

To me, Arnold was a pioneer in the spirit of Thomas Edison or Benjamin Franklin, while Tiger is a pioneer in the spirit of Bill Gates.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

In the end, I want to be an inspiration to somebody.

A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.

I want to have a cultural impact. I want to be an inspiration, to show people what can be done.

Leadership is always about change: it's not about mobilising people to do what they've always done well to continue to do it well.

At a pivotal time in my life, Barack Obama gave me hope that a boy who grew up like me could still achieve the most important of my dreams. For that, I'll miss him and the example he set.

Musk is very inspiring to me.

My father was a pioneer and a leader in the things he did and the way he did them.

I've realized that I've pioneered many things and have been a front-runner in a lot of things. I did many things ahead of time.