Edwin Catmull Quotes

If a chairman sacks the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well.

For his failures, Rumsfeld must go!

Statesman only talk of fate when they have blundered

To be right and overruled is not forgiven to persons in responsible positions.

One person's embarrassment is another person's accountability.

Here's the teaching point, if you're teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough questions, and it doesn't absolve them of having curiosity about the consequences of their actions.

Even if there's controversy, I'm going to make the decision, and people are going to be happy in one instance and unhappy in the next. But that's the job I've been given and the job I'm going to embrace.

Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers.

Real vision demands that we make tough choices. Real vision is responsible and it is paid for.

If you could see the instructions that I gave Jerry to begin with, I'd be embarrassed.

My family comes first, and you have to be in charge to be able to protect that. You have to be the one who says no or you don't have a life, which is what I found out the first time.

You make decisions and you're not going to please everybody all the time.

Presidents make their hard decisions and then abide forever with their mistakes and regrets.

When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy.

But our leaders of today have decided it's more important to be popular, to say and do what's easy, and say yes rather than to say no, when no is what is required.

I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.

In the first rule of politics, you know, Harry Truman, the buck stops here. Take responsibility. What I've learned over the years is that people will give people in politics a lot of rope if they just take responsibility.

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you're held responsible for everything, but you don't always have control of everything, right?

You never want to be the director who dropped the ball, you know?

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

What you do as president has consequences.

The key things are about power and about growing up and realizing as you grow up that there are consequences for the choices you make, especially when you get seduced by power.

In the end, as a leader, you are always going to get a combination of two things: what you create and what you allow.

If victory has a hundred fathers, it also brings forth a hundred advisors.

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