Carl Paladino Quotes

I can sit in the boardroom and battle it out, step up and be a project manager, take risks, and put my ideas alongside anybody's.

I must make decisions every five minutes and give the impression of being sure of myself! Sincerely, this is the cause of my verbal violence.

I've always been a leader. Every team I've played on, I've led my way.

I've got an opinion on everything, so I should go into management.

Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.

I'm quite modest. I don't want to tell people I'm a leader.

Making music is an emotional thing. And when you're on a video shoot with 50 people there, you have to somehow, in a non-emotional way, say what you want and not feel guilty for it. And that takes growing up and that takes... not caring how people perceive you as much. And it just takes experience, I think.

Knowing who I am as a player and working on my deficiencies, communication is something I try to pride myself on.

I think I can bring tremendous leadership.

I'm very tough. Come to a council meeting, and you'll see it.

I need to be more aggressive, more vocal, be a better defender. I've worked on all those tirelessly.

Saying 'no' or even 'stop' is the hallmark of the professional you want on your team.

I hesitate to direct even though I feel I contribute a lot on a set.

I have picked the very, very best deputy that I could. David Parker is a fantastic guy. He's a person who I trust absolutely. He's got a wonderful sense for policy. He will be great on organisation, and I know that I could not have a better deputy.

I'm not aggressive by nature and it was tough for me to make the transition to directing.

I think it's hard, when you're someone who likes to please people, as I am, to be a boss. I had to learn how to rein myself in and not terrify people.

There is a fine line between assertiveness and being relaxed.

I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't. Hey, it made me a better leader: you have to take a lot of people's needs into account; you have to look down the road. Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.

I would say probably my most alpha quality is my competitive nature. I'm very competitive, and it tends to bring out very much the man in me.

I know how to make decisions and stand up to the criticism every day.

Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.

I could never be a manager. All I have is natural ability.

I mean, I didn't - I should have demanded attention of the boss maybe, or something like that that might have backfired. This I would just take as it came.

I'm not mean, just aggressive.

There are leaders vocally, and there are leaders by example. I think I'm starting to become better at being a leader vocally, just talking on the court.