Eric Ries Quotes

Leadership requires creating conditions that enable employees to do the kinds of experimentation that entrepreneurship requires.

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• Leadership means setting a moral tone.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Moral
  • Leadership
  • Tone

• I love doing impressions of politicians because the task is always to imagine the private lives of these people whose job it is to project an image of staunch, unflinching leadership and grace, and that's just not how human beings, in their heart of hearts, work.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • People
  • Work
  • Heart

• I totally disagree with the premise that al Qaeda is on the path to defeat. Quite the contrary, al Qaeda has deliberately decentralized its operations - not because of the relentless attacks we have had on its national leadership in Pakistan, but because its strategic objective is to dominate and control Muslim countries in the region.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Control
  • Path
  • Leadership

• In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Political
  • Leadership
  • Presidential

• Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Life
  • Business
  • Leadership

• I try to get roles that challenge me in what I can do and who I think I can portray. For me, it's about creating characters with really fascinating stories, because that's what I like to watch on TV.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Challenge
  • Stories
  • Characters

• But the approach to recording this album was kind of an organized, chaotic approach where I wanted to maintain and preserve that wild abandon to creating.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • Kind
  • Creating
  • WIld

• Lyrics can't do what they do - or should do - when you're creating a musical with rock lyrics. There's plenty of room for rock musicals, just not all rock musicals.

  

  Harold Prince
  • You
  • Rock
  • Lyrics

• Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Words
  • Attitude
  • Leadership

• Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Leadership
  • Learned
  • Really

• Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and vision needed to move the world in a new and better direction.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • World
  • Society
  • Political

• History has placed a tremendous responsibility on the shoulders of this country's leadership, namely the responsibility of moving our country away from the current course of conflict and confrontation... The hope of millions of South Africans is fixed on us. The future of southern Africa depends on us. We dare not waver or fail.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Country
  • History
  • Hope

• The man of Hope, Barack Obama. America is stronger because of President Obama's leadership, and I'm better because of his friendship.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • America
  • Hope
  • Leadership

• This Congress is simply not doing its job under Republican leadership.

  

  Jim Cooper
  • Job
  • Leadership

• China is the largest and most ancient of Asiatic countries, but it is not for us boastfully to talk of her right to a position of 'leadership' among those countries.

  

  Chiang Kai-shek
  • Leadership

• One thing that somebody told me is that leadership is a lonely role - some people can do it, and some people can't.

  

  Kyrie Irving
  • People
  • Leadership
  • Lonely

• Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.

  

  James Humes
  • Time
  • Leadership

• The function of combat is not merely to perpetrate violence, but to perpetrate violence on command, instantaneously and reflexively. The function of the service academies is to prepare men for leadership positions where they may someday exercise that command.

  

  Jim Webb
  • Men
  • May
  • Violence

• For far too long, the Republican leadership in Congress has refused to act and pass comprehensive reform fixing our broken immigration system. In light of Republican inaction, I strongly support President Obama's executive actions on immigration.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • Long
  • Light
  • Support

• I love going into the studio with just an idea of the direction. Like, I want this tempo... I love to start from scratch, and the tracks sort of take on a life of their own.

  

  Lindsey Stirling
  • Life

• You know, in our culture today, our Western, reductionist, Roman, linear, fragmented... culture, we don't ask how to make a pig happy. We ask how to grow it faster, fatter, bigger, cheaper, and that's not a noble goal.

  

  Joel Salatin
  • Happy
  • Today
  • Culture

• Whenever your mind is totally absorbed in whatever activities you are performing, your mind will remain calm and content.

  

  Chin-Ning Chu
  • Mind
  • Calm
  • Content

• Leadership requires creating conditions that enable employees to do the kinds of experimentation that entrepreneurship requires.

  

  Eric Ries
  • Leadership
  • Creating
  • Entrepreneurship