Rick Santorum Quotes

I've run businesses with thousands of people. I've run businesses with 10 people.

Being a president is being a CEO, essentially.

Clearly in my mind, I have two distinct positions - owner and manager. So I am open to reviewing my performance as a manager as any other person in Sun Pharma.

I was always fascinated by the decision-making process and the managerial process and just business in general.

Nobody is actually a natural C.E.O.

Admiration takes on a whole new level when you appreciate just how complex it is to run a modern business.

When you're President you have to make a lot of tough decisions. You have to keep lining them up and making them.

The presidency is not about easy choices.

The president is the only one we have to make decisions. We have no one else.

[Describing her role:] It's like running a big corporation and a little country at the same time.

I think if you want to be a successful president or a manager of a team, you need to understand what the business is all about because you have to deal with the business side of the game to be able to do what you need to do.

I'm a business owner.

Anyone who has actually had to take responsibility for consequences by running any kind of enterprise whether economic or academic, or even just managing a sports team is likely at some point to be chastened by either the setbacks brought on by his own mistakes or by seeing his successes followed by negative consequences that he never anticipated.

On a good day, I view the job [of president] as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch -- engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction.

As much as you need a strong personality to build a business from scratch, you also must understand the art of delegation.

Drive your business. Let not your business drive you.

It was [Donald trump] had seen me on the job there, doing other things, and he asked me if I could run the place, and so we had that conversation. But I appreciate that, too.

As president, I could run the Trump organization, great, great company, and I could run the company - the country. I'd do a very good job, but I don't want to do that.

HartBeat Productions is a company established by me; it's mine. I run it. I have employees.

I think I should be a president. President of the United States.

Clearly, as a CEO, you have other functions that are managed by other people.

You learn every single day when you're running a company. You learn as you go.

Obviously I've got a great team of people within the company. You can't operate all by yourself. We have a good board of directors and a big bench, and they can make decisions if I'm not around.

When you're C.E.O., you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want you to head your company. The second is that you need to feel the motivation to do the job. So, as long as both are reunited, you continue to do the job. And today, they are reunited.

The decisions you make affect a lot of people. You have investors, employees, and customers who all rely on you. Being a leader is a 24-hour-a-day job.