Nirmala Sitharaman Quotes

You have to have doubts. I have collaborators I work with. I listen, and then I decide. That's how it works.

Great leaders don't rush to blame. They instinctively look for solutions.

The quality of a leader cannot be judged by the answers he gives, but by the questions he asks.

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

You have heard me say many times that I want strong leaders who feel free to express their opinions.

To be an effective leader and make sound decisions, you must be able to gather data by seeking out diverse perspectives and be willing to consider points of view other than your own.

It is important to have a President who not only understands, but enjoys complexity

Focusing on the right question is very different from having the right answers.

If any successes has come to me, it came because I insisted on thinking things through. That's all I was capable of doing in life, was thinking pretty hard about trying to get the right answer, and then acting on it. I never learned to do anything else.

Dad was an outstanding leader. He'd bring in top thinkers from a wide array of fields - how to fix the Detroit schools, for example. I watched him in these meetings. He listened and probed.

Candidates need to demonstrate strategic thinking and strong problem solving skills. And, just as importantly, they need to know when and how to ask for help.

Being surrounded by diverse points of view pushes us beyond our comfort zones. And when people and teams bring multiple perspectives and experiences to the table, the discussions are deeper, the decision-making process is better, and the solutions are stronger.

No deliberation made by a single person will be successful; the nature of the work which a sovereign has to do is to be inferred from the consideration of both the visible and invisible causes. The clearance of doubts as to whatever is susceptible of two opinions, and the inference of the whole when only a part is seen is possible of decision only by ministers. Hence the king shall sit at deliberation with persons of wide intellect.

History rewards those who can change their minds when the stakes are high.

I'm not a momentary decision maker. I like well-informed decisions.

I went through a political shift when I was nineteen or twenty. I felt a certain way, and after the shift, I felt the opposite way. And never once did someone yelling at me or making me feel stupid do anything other than reinforce the convictions I had. What did get to me was people listening to me.

I have to make sure I'm making the right play at the right time.

The arts are the most uniquely suited to provide young people with critical-thinking skills, problem-solving, teamwork and collaboration, empathy and tolerance and compassion, looking at the other point of views.

Playing chess can make you a better poker player because it forces you to think several moves ahead. That kind of intense mental exercise develops a deeper level of thinking than is typically encountered when playing poker.

You can be a great skater, you can have really good puck skills, but the ability to problem-solve is, to me, key.

I'm someone who likes to listen, who likes to watch, and who likes to learn.

You don't have to agree with my vote, but you need to at least understand how I came to my vote.

If you have got diversity on your board, then you are going to have new ideas come to the table.

The most difficult quality is to make the right decision. Because you can be quick, you can be strong, you can jump incredibly, you can have the best shots and you can be able to score goals from 50 yards, but if you don't know when to shoot, when to run or when to jump, you're lost.

Leadership is about tough choices.