Ayaan Hirsi Ali Quotes

The Way of an enlightened ruler is to make it so that no minister may make a proposal and then fail to match it with actions and results.

We have all the good policies, all right visions, but the problem is implementation. When we come out of national conference, we want those leaders we have chosen to be those who can implement policies.

You've got to demonstrate you're capable of developing policies but, more importantly, you're capable of implementing them.

General Petraeus is not a miracle worker. He can not be successful unless the president creates greater confidence within his own team about the decisions which the president has himself made.

I think they, Peter McCullough was, turns out was not a good CEO.

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

When I wear the hat of management, it is important that our management behaves and conducts as management accountable to the board.

In my opinion, the most important thing in governance is management control.

Governing is about selecting.

Life is about choices, and the grace - or lack thereof - with which you execute them is a make-or-break moment in anyone's life.

Mr. President, you were elected to lead. You chose to follow. And now it's time for you to get out of the way.

I think, you know, a fellow CEO said to me that the interesting thing about being CEO that's really striking is that you have very few decisions that you need to make, and you need to make them absolutely perfectly.

I'm all in favour of grand important speeches, but the president then has to link his sermons to a strategy.

You shut the door, you tell the boss exactly what you think. But when the door opens, the job of the vice president is to stand right next to the president and implement the policy that he's decided. And I'm prepared to do that.

Modi failed miserably on most counts. He lacks the vision that a leader needs to possess and a strategy to achieve the vision and outcomes.

As a mayor, my instinct is to really think about how to get something done and not to make the promise unless you have some view of the pathway. You don't have to have it all figured out, but you have to have a pathway there.

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.

For now, decisions are upon us and we cannot afford delay. We cannot mistake absolutism for principle or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned debate.

The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistakes, as if my maidenhood were responsible for my ignorance. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.

The mistakes you make now count. Not for everything, and not forever. But they do matter, and they shape you.If you take nothing else from what I've been through, at least remember this: make your choices well. Because you'll always be accountable for them. That's what being an adult is all about.

Somebody can be the captain of the ship, which allows you to make big mistakes.

It's one thing to make a choice. It's another to put that choice into practice.

There are times when people that you put in those positions make mistakes, they disappoint you, you lose their - you lose your confidence in them, or they lie to you. And when you find that out, the test of leadership is what do you do?

Unless a decision has degenerated into work, it is not a decision; it is at best a good intention.

When we are debating an issue, loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I'll like it or not. Disagreement, at this state, stimulates me. But once a decision is made, the debate ends. From that point on, loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own.