Leroy Chiao Quotes

I think, you know, a fellow CEO said to me that the interesting thing about being CEO that's really striking is that you have very few decisions that you need to make, and you need to make them absolutely perfectly.

As one grows their company and brand, you have to learn to be a leader, and there's no formula.

A manager has to have all different sides covered.

Nothing that matters in this world happens unless leaders lead it.

That's the art of leadership. To make sure that what shouldn't happen, doesn't happen.

Leadership is neither a rank nor a title. It is a choice. The choice to provide care and protection for those for whom we are responsible.

If you don't want responsibility, don't sit in the big chair. To be successful, you must accept full responsibility

If you don't have a strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy.

I do not think being a coordinator is a requirement, but it does give you some advantages. You get used to working with half the team and you go through the game-planning and decision-making processes.

People want guidance, not rhetoric. They need to know what the plan of action is, and how it will be implemented. They want to be given responsibility to help solve the problem and authority to act on it.

I take full responsibility for what happened. That's why the person who was responsible went immediately.

Captaincy is something you get better at through experience. You've got to trust your instincts.

My ability to function effectively will not affect my ability to serve as commander-in-chief.

You got responsibilities when you’re a leader. You got a responsibility not to kill too many of your men. Or who’re you going to lead?

You've got to listen but you've also got to lead.

In some ways, I saw the garden as a metaphor for certain aspects of my life. A leader must also tend his garden; he, too, plants seeds, and then watches, cultivates, and harvests the results. Like the gardener, a leader must take responsibility for what he cultivates; he must mind his work, try to repel enemies, preserve what can be preserved, and eliminate what cannot succeed.

A leader should be a visionary and have more foresight than an employee.

The condition of leadership adds new degrees of solitariness to the basic solitude of mankind. Every order that we issue increases the extent to which we are alone, and every show of deference which is extended to us separates us from our fellows.

I have the experience we need to make the changes we want and I think that's a winning case.

Don't you dare get to the top and not know what to do.

We have to make the right decisions.

I think you either have to have a very strong decisive person at the top or else a really brilliant staff command.

The buck stops with me, but I can tick off dozens of very good senior executives that are responsible for hundreds or thousands of people who work for me.

Management is clearly different from leadership. Leadership is primarily a high-powered, right-brain activity. It's more of an art it's based on a philosophy. You have to ask the ultimate questions of life when you're dealing with personal leadership issues.