Gladys Berejiklian Quotes

If a guy doesn't work hard and doesn't play well, he can't lead anything. All he is, is a talker.

The rule for effective governance is simple. It is one Ronald Reagan knew by heart. And one that he successfully employed with Social Security and the Cold War. When there is a problem, you fix it. That is the job you have been sent to do and you cannot wait for someone else to do it for you.

Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.

The times demand not a man bearing promises of new things, but a man who can finish the things begun...

People say I'm a natural leader, but I just go out there and do my job and do whatever it takes to win; that's what comes with being a leader, those are the sort of things I've done as I've tried to grow into a leader and I'm just going to continue to do them.

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.

Decisions are made by those who show up.

If nothing is to be done in the given situation, he must invent plausible reasons for doing nothing; and if something must be done, he must suggest the something. The unpardonable sin is to propose nothing, when action is imperative.

I have zero tolerance for people who don't come completely prepared. I expect contribution, I expect attendance, and I expect directors to take trips and visit the company's programs.

My business is not to show anybody anything; my job is just to do it.

You have to step up when your number is called.

I use that as my responsibility on the show, to be the pragmatist.

You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

We've got to prove that we can lead, and I'm going to be all-in to help prove that.

It's one thing to make the speeches. It's another to make the tough decisions.

[President] McKinley gave [Lt. Andrew Sommers] Rowan a letter to be delivered to [General Calixto] Garcia: Rowan took the letter and did not ask, "Where is he at?" By the eternal, there is a man whose form should be cast in deathless bronze and the statue placed in every college in the land. It is not book learning that young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do the thing—"carry a message to Garcia.

It's deeds we need, not words.

When the public or the Council pass the buck up to me I am going to act.

Leadership and greatness comes to those who follow-through. Who stand for near-flawless execution.

Employees get things done. Partners get things done done. But owners get things done done done.

Words must be matched by action if change is to become lasting.

When you get offered the captaincy, you've got to have a go. In India, where it went well, I was playing well, and anything that needed doing, I'd do it myself. When I wasn't playing well, it was tough.

My role isn't just receiving.

I need to be the leader day in and day out - and I will be.