Jim Webb Quotes

I know how to lead.

Leadership—not salesmanship

I think, at heart, I'm a leader.

To become a good coach, it is important to be equipped with tactics and strategy. But first of all, you need to have strong leadership.

Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.

A CEO needs to build their own team.

A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here's where we are going to go, here's why we need to go there, and here's how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor.

My feeling is if you're going to be a leader, you have to carefully assess where people are and where people want to go.

At the moment we need training for leadership.

Management is different from leadership..

I can lead my team.

I had the best teacher there can be in man management or managing a football club.

I think I am capable of captaincy.

I have never been afraid of being in charge, whether I have been coach, manager or caretaker.

That's the fun part of being CEO. You can actually say, 'Hey, this is what we should be spending our time on,' and people get it.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

I think the job of leadership is to expand what can be talked about and to get consensus on the nature of the problem, and that is most of the job. Because once you do that, once you have diagnosis, treatment options are obvious.

Leadership is influence.

Being a leader doesn't mean you are the guy who runs things.

A C.E.O.'s job is leadership, problem solving, and team building. I've done that my whole career.

Rotary provides training at all levels so that those who have been selected for leadership positions have the opportunity to learn and apply leadership principles to their jobs.

If I look myself as a manager, I have lot more to learn.

Early in my career, I sometimes found it difficult to make the tough people decisions - I had to learn that. In business, you want to listen. You want to learn. You want to make sure you're not proceeding without information. But if you wait too long, you can actually hurt an organization even more.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

I've got an opinion on everything, so I should go into management.