Rick Scott Quotes

Leadership is hard to train on.

If I hire a coach, he's the coach and will run what he knows and is comfortable with. Will it be part of the process? Absolutely. But I am not going to interfere that way as the president.

The art of leadership is not to spend your time measuring, evaluating. It's all about selecting the person. And if you believe you selected the right person, then you give that person the freedom, the authority, the delegation to innovate and to lead with some very simple measure.

My best business decision was to be independent as a musician and artist. My worst was compromising on certain aspects of a deal for the sake of other members of my group when I shouldn't have, because I was right in the end.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

I'm not aggressive by nature and it was tough for me to make the transition to directing.

I've never seen myself as a manager. As a manager, you have to put all your time into the job, and that would be difficult for me.

If you're going to give people authority and hold them responsible and ultimately accountable for their performance, you've got to get out of the way.

Being a manager is about getting into the minds of the people you represent.

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

Delegating doesn't mean passing off work you don't enjoy, but letting your employees stretch their skills and judgment.

In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership.

As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.

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

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

A CEO needs to build their own team.

Of course I have an opinion on many things but I don't micromanage.

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

I will offer a choice, not an echo.

The way you delegate is that first you have to hire people that you really have confidence in. You won't truly let those people feel a sense of autonomy if you don't have confidence in them.

In any leadership position, you're always going to be disappointing somebody.

When I finally got a management position, I found out how hard it is to lead and manage people.

I don't want to be president, but I want to be free to decide whether or not I want to be president of this country.

I'm not in the business of telling people what to do. I'm much more in the business of describing things, situations and stuff like that and leaving them out there, and you can make up your minds about them.

You can teach all sorts of things that improve the practice of management with people who are managers. What you cannot do is teach management to somebody who is not a manager, the way you cannot teach surgery to somebody whose not a surgeon.