Rick Scott Quotes

Clearly, every company needs a leader. That's an important part of being the CEO of the company.

I'm really more of an executive.

As the director, you are the organiser who has to have all the answers. You are the person with maximum clarity.

I have never been afraid of being in charge, whether I have been coach, manager or caretaker.

That's the fun part of being CEO. You can actually say, 'Hey, this is what we should be spending our time on,' and people get it.

I've got to let the people who are in the business run the business. I can help them think through their decisions about products, about partners, about hiring. But in the end, the decisions are theirs, and so is the responsibility.

In a very real way, ownership is the essence of leadership. When you are 'ridiculously in charge,' then you own whatever happens in a company, school, et cetera.

I am a director. I'm the one who can order men around.

Being responsible, I will direct, and will be responsible for nothing that I do not direct.

I am better when I have control. I am not a power freak. But my point is that I need to feel that I can manage the team and have a direct, clear line through to the owners. Once that becomes hazy, for me, there is a problem.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term.

Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs master them.

All leaders share something in common. They feel they are the only ones who can do the job.

Gotta watch out for directors.

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.

A C.E.O.'s job is leadership, problem solving, and team building. I've done that my whole career.

Clearly in my mind, I have two distinct positions - owner and manager. So I am open to reviewing my performance as a manager as any other person in Sun Pharma.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

The great irony of management is that the higher up you go, the less actual control you have. When you are but a humble coder, you make the computer do exactly what you want; when you're a manager, you only hope that people understand what you want, and then trust/pray that they do it both correctly and in a timely manner.

Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.

Governance is a way of organizing, amplifying, and constraining power.

The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten', he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.