Lisa Su Quotes

The person who knows "how" will always have a job. The person who knows "why" will always be his boss

You need those people to also have power and authority, and in a way that has been the story of my career.

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

Gotta watch out for directors.

When political and business leaders tell the public - any public - 'We don't trust you to make the right decision' - they prejudice that electorate against the very proposals they want it to accept and undermine public confidence in themselves.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

In politics, as in business, leadership is crucial.

The owner always has the final say. You have to decide who is going to be the best fit for the organization.

There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog, waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there.

I was the network president. I thought I knew everything.

One of the sad truths about leadership is that, the higher up the ladder you travel, the less you know.

I've always been comfortable with people who run things, whether it was the principal of my high school or the president of the university.

Admittedly, scientific authority is not distributed evenly throughout the body of scientists; some distinguished members of the profession predominate over others of a more junior standing.

I'm not an education expert, and frankly I don't want to make education decisions for our state. But I am experienced at successfully managing organizations, and putting people on a path where they can succeed.

I definitely want to manage. I just don't think it's the time right now.

We had the controlling shares but we weren’t in control.

Our elite is primarily and increasingly managerial. A managerial elite manages. A crisis, unfortunately, requires thought. Thought is not a management function.

Send a wise man and don't advise him. He should know what to do.

Fearing the weakness of democracy, men have always sought safety in technocrats. But ... [we] have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down before the divine right of experts.

I tell people what to do, and so what? I am more qualified than the other board members, so my advice means more.

Structure is not about moving boxes around on a chart. Structure is about power.

Knowing something and acting on that knowledge in a political setting are two different things…. Finally the markets come and hit you over the head.

Nobody who comes in once every six weeks while you're working 80 or 90 hours a week is qualified to make a decision.

The best and brightest don't go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs.

Leadership is important in politics.