Eliot Spitzer Quotes

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

Every day I've got to get up and make a decision. I have an opportunity every day to affect young men and the coaches that are around me, the entire organization and the entire community.

I think that the presidency really brings out the best in a lot of people.

I don't think I'll ever be president of anything.

Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It's about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers.

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?

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

In my position as prime minister, I bear the highest responsibility for decisions.

Maybe my job made 0.1% of difference, but Donald Trump did 99.9% of the work, and anyone who tells you different doesn't know Donald Trump.

Leaders, whether in the family, in business, in government, or in education, must not allow themselves to mistake intentions for accomplishments .

I don't mean to sound corny, but it's one word: results. If you get results, you can get anyone.

As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! -- How much of pleasure or pain it was in his power to bestow! -- How much of good or evil must be done by him!

On a good day, I view the job [of president] as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch -- engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction.

Leaders do stuff that matters.

[On power:] Some people really have almost a disdain for that word. They feel it is alien to conscience. Power for power's sake, no. But the positive use of power for positive purposes is very important. You have to understand that. You've got to have a seat at the policy table if you want to make a difference.

... The future is very markedly in your hands, its value and its moral standing in the world and among ourselves. If you will take the power you have and use it, I have no fear of the outcome of the future.

The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.

To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.

My ability to function effectively will not affect my ability to serve as commander-in-chief.

Victims recite problems, leaders provide solutions.

My job is exhilarating. It's challenging. I find that the governance part of it, the decision making part of it - actually comes - comes pretty naturally. I think I've got a great team. I think we're making good decisions. The the hardest thing about the job is staying focused. Because there's so many demands and decisions that are pressed upon you.

Coolidge's preference for experience over ideas was a deeply rooted trait.

A leader's responsibility is to cause a vision and mission to have tangible results in the real world.

If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Advisers advise, and ministers decide.