Henry Blodget Quotes

A good leader... maintains a balance between emotional drive and sound thinking.

Great leadership can be a difficult thing to pin down and understand. You know a great leader when you're working for one, but even they can have a hard time articulating what it is that makes their leadership so effective.

Nobody is actually a natural C.E.O.

I seek out a lot of advice from other CEOs.

In sports and in business, the greatest leaders are those who make the best decisions in the most crucial of situations. They are the ones who focus their energy on turning tough decisions into winning decisions.

Some of our finest leaders were not intellectuals at all, and I admire them enormously because they weren't. Harry Truman wasn't.

Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.

A leader with no doubts leads badly.

Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.

I'm a businessman. I'm a former legislator, and I'm an executive. And I've been very effective in each one of those positions.

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

I have a business-running personality.

When I pick my subcommittee chairmen, I look for people that understand what it's like to run successful businesses, who know what it's like to sign the front of the check instead of the back of the check: somebody that gets it.

If you don't have the ability to see when to stand up and the conviction to do it, you'll never be an effective leader.

That's all managing is: just coming up with the right questions and getting the right answers.

The leader is the one who climbs the tallest tree, surveys the entire situation, and yells, 'Wrong jungle!' ... Busy, efficient producers and managers often respond ... 'Shut up! We're making progress!'

There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led.

There is a big difference between being a leader and actually leading.

Leadership ability determines a person's level of effectiveness.

Successful leaders don't start out asking, 'What do I want to do?' They ask, 'What needs to be done?' Then they ask, 'Of those things that would make a difference, which are right for me?'

Strong leaders equal strong organizations.

Strong leadership demands more than the willingness to use force. It means directing the use of the right tools at the right time for the right purpose and the right cause.

I think you either have to have a very strong decisive person at the top or else a really brilliant staff command.

One mark of a good officer, he remembered, was the ability to make quick decisions. If they happen to be right, so much the better.