Leadership Tasks Quotes

Leaders need to be thinking constantly about what they're doing to create a basic sense of security and stability throughout an organization.

Clearly, as a CEO, you have other functions that are managed by other people.

I have to do my work as party leader and that's what I'm concentrating on.

You can't be the accountant in your accounting firm. You can't cut the grass in your landscaping business. You can't work on the vehicles in your auto repair shop... And you really can't spend all of your time managing those actions, either.

The job of the president of the United States is not to love his wife; it's to manage a wide range of complicated issues.

One of the most important tasks as a leader in a startup is to pick the right metric to track. This is often referred to as the 'compass metric' because it will be your compass for growth. It's important to note that 'compass metrics' will likely change over the lifetime of a business.

One of your tasks is to separate the 'personal' from the 'substantive.' The two can become confused, especially if someone rubs the President wrong.

We can’t leave the job of leadership to the leaders.

I spent several years in a North Vietnamese prison camp in the dark, fed with scraps. Do you think I want to do that all over again as vice president of the United States? The vice president has two duties. One is to break a tie in case of a tie vote in the United States Senate... The other is to inquire daily as to the health of the president. Neither one of those are very challenging as compared to being able to live for a good part of the time in the state of Arizona.