Eva Moskowitz Quotes

I know how to make decisions, and I know how to lead.

As a manager, you need to have your own vision and what you want to do with the team.

I think the job of leadership is to expand what can be talked about and to get consensus on the nature of the problem, and that is most of the job. Because once you do that, once you have diagnosis, treatment options are obvious.

Effective management always means asking the right question.

People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.

Leadership is all about emotional intelligence. Management is taught, while leadership is experienced.

As a manager you're going to have some bad times, some really bad times. If you're going to walk away, then in my view you do not have the make-up to be a manager or a leader of men.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success

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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

I seek out a lot of advice from other CEOs.

We're all flawed, but basically, effective managers are people whose flaws are not fatal under the circumstances. Maybe the best managers are simply ordinary, healthy people who aren't too screwed up.

I always liked Casey Stengel as a manager because he seemed to have a grasp of so many things.

I've always made my decisions based on two factors: intellectual analysis and my gut. And when they meet, that's a go from me. That's when I see the goal.

At the end of the program, I tried to talk to the kids a little bit about life skills.

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

Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.

Leadership is hard to train on.

The most challenging part of being CEO is communicating to 200,000 people what you want done.

Great CEOs are not just born with shiny hair and a tie.

I think for leadership positions, emotional intelligence is more important than cognitive intelligence. People with emotional intelligence usually have a lot of cognitive intelligence, but that's not always true the other way around.

I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't. Hey, it made me a better leader: you have to take a lot of people's needs into account; you have to look down the road. Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.

A CEO needs to build their own team.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.