Brian France Quotes

I am very clear with people that I am willing and able to make tough choices, and I will do that.

We will not duck the tough issues, we will lead.

One cannot govern with 'buts'.

I need to be the leader day in and day out - and I will be.

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.

For good or ill, I'm a person of leadership. I do my best. I don't dodge responsibility.

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

Part of my job is to make the tough calls.

You must ... communicate your passion to others and act accordingly, without hesitation when your decision is once made.

It's one thing to make the speeches. It's another to make the tough decisions.

[President] McKinley gave [Lt. Andrew Sommers] Rowan a letter to be delivered to [General Calixto] Garcia: Rowan took the letter and did not ask, "Where is he at?" By the eternal, there is a man whose form should be cast in deathless bronze and the statue placed in every college in the land. It is not book learning that young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do the thing—"carry a message to Garcia.

What is important in a leader is a resolute will and determination. A man may be versatile and learned, but if he lacks resoluteness and determination, of what use will he be?

For the first ten years or so, you would always question whether the decisions were right or wrong, but you have to learn to put things behind you once a decision is made. You can't be wishy-washy about it

I'm a rather decisive type.

A weak point of mine was maybe little resolve in governing and making decisions.

Politicians are strong to the extent that they are ready to take serious decisions and fight for it.

Leadership is not a contest of likeability. Leadership often boils down to making the tougher choices. You are not in a popularity contest.

I sometimes should be more decisive.

If you're not gonna pull the trigger, don't point the gun.

Greatness is never achieved through indecision.

You know, one of the things I've learnt since coming out of office is how much easier it is to give the advice than take the decision. I mean, you know, it's tough.

Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.

The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

They are no longer going to serve you well. You have to commit. I think the biggest word is commit. I hear women say to me all the time, and men - I want to, I want to.