leadership Quotes

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Steve Jobs' ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things.

When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it.

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.

Personally, I'd like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.

No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.

It's OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don't want them to catch up because we're slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.