leadership Quotes

I think right now it's a battle for the mindshare of developers and for the mindshare of customers, and right now iPhone and Android are winning that battle.

Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.

Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.

If you're competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

As president, I'm committed to making Washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here.

Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I'll be right there with you as a citizen - inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

We also can't try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That's not leadership; that's a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It's the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq - and we should have learned it by now.