Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

One of the best paradoxes of leadership is a leader's need to be both stubborn and open-minded. A leader must insist on sticking to the vision and stay on course to the destination. But he must be open-minded during the process.

I'm definitely open to change, but at the same time I am quite stubborn.

Being stubborn can be a good thing. Being stubborn can be a bad thing. It just depends on how you use it.

Steadfastness should net be confused with stubbornness.

A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.

Guys that are young in the league. Guys that you get to teach them your way. It's not a bad thing. It's actually a good thing. It's working for them. Teach them that way, and I guarantee they aren't as stubborn and hard-headed as I was, which sometimes is good, sometimes is bad. But like I always say, I'm not going to change who I am.

I've always said I would never say never when it comes to politics.

[Donald] Trump, I think, is the sort of guy that if he maybe thought he'd made a little bit of a mistake, would find a way out, he wouldn't want to say, "Well, that's what I've done and I'm sticking to it, and I don't give a damn." Which is what the other people in America would be like.

Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice.

Leadership does not depend on being right.

If I'm sure of a person and his potential in politics, and if I know he will live up to his promises, I wouldn't mind campaigning for him. I believe in the dictum, 'never say never.' You never know, I might end up joining politics.

As the facts change, change your thesis. Don't be a stubborn mule, or you'll get killed.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.

Any leader needs to be constantly interested in what's going on in the world, and constantly ready - even when things are going well - to change.

Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.

One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he's the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong.

There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.

Stubbornness and ignorance and determination are a very fine line from each other. I'm a very stubborn person, but not so stubborn that I can't learn new things and meet new people, but I have a one-track mind.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

Consistency frequently launches its devotees into obstinacy.

A wise man changes his mind, a fool never does.

Only stupid people don't change their minds.

The biggest issue in this election is something called flip-flopping, and all candidates are accused of doing it. A strong leader is expected to maintain steadfast resolve in his opinion even if the environment changes or he gets new information. In any other context, that would be considered the first sign of a brain tumor. When presidents do it, it's called leadership

I came to believe that a leader isn't good because they're right; they're good because they're willing to learn and to trust.