Richard Grenell Quotes

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.

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.

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

We need an adult in the White House. When making life-or-death, war-or-peace decisions, a president can't just pop off or lash out irrationally.

An important part of leadership is being able to hold two things in your mind at once: Dealing with the reality, whatever it may be, and focus on hope for the future. Any leader helping an organization through challenges needs to be able to do both.

Every manager must be prepared to face every situation.

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

The greatest presidents have been those who demonstrated astute judgment in times of crisis - often despite the advice they were getting.

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.

We need a president with tremendous intelligence, smarts, cunning, strength and stamina.

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.

The president of the United States actually has to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time.

The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.

Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

Novice leaders often respond dramatically to provocations.

The last question I would ask of someone I was considering appointing to office is how he would act in a specific situation.

Effective Presidents are those who can achieve a balance between purpose and prudence.

Good political leadership for me involves getting the big decisions right - however difficult, however controversial, however potentially divisive and then being able to take people with you.

A candidate’s command of foreign policy acts as a proxy for assessing broader leadership abilities.

I've learned with Donald Trump - take him at his word.

Donald Trump's leadership, decision-making and problem solving will restore America's role as the undeniable and unquestioned world leader.

Throughout my career, I've been someone who's led... and solved problems we had.

In tumultuous times, it's important to have a very mature leader.