leadership Quotes

The vision is really about empowering workers, giving them all the

Embrace bad news to learn where you need the most improvement.

The flatter the corporate hierarchy, the more likely it is that employees will communicate bad news and act upon it.

[Warren Buffett ] met with all sorts of different groups about a lot of different things, but yes, he took the time, he listened and he wanted to understand about some of the different diseases and the strength of the... ...

Every company can choose whether to lead or follow the emerging digital trends.

Energy is very primal stuff and there are a lot of leads that are promising, still at a fairly risky stage, but over the next decade some of these breakthrough approaches are going to pay out, and U.S. research and... ...

How fast a company can respond in an emergency is a measure of its corporate reflexes.

If we [Microsoft Corporation] weren't still hiring great people and pushing ahead at full speed, it would be easy to fall behind and become a mediocre company. Fear should guide you, but it should be latent. I have some latent... ...

The willingness to hear hard truth is vital not only for CEOs of big corporations but also for anyone who loves the truth. Sometimes the truth sounds like bad news, but it is just what we need.

I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world's deepest inequities...on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but... ...