Norm Coleman Quotes

There is no real magic to being a good leader. But at the end of every week, you have to spend your time around the things that are really important: setting priorities, measuring outcomes, and rewarding them.

Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers.

Real vision demands that we make tough choices. Real vision is responsible and it is paid for.

Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.

Here's the teaching point, if you're teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough questions, and it doesn't absolve them of having curiosity about the consequences of their actions.

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

In the end, leadership comes down to consistency and strong, confident action upon which the team can rely - and this doesn't mean imposing a bunch of rules.

Presidents make their hard decisions and then abide forever with their mistakes and regrets.

I think in any organization you want your manager to have a strong opinion. You don't want them to just say, 'Yes, sir' to things they don't believe in.

The cost of leadership is self-interest.

It's through a leader's actions - what he or she does and says on a daily basis - that the essence of great leadership becomes apparent.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

In this job, you're going to make decisions. You'll say things that some people are going to love them, some people are going to hate them. It's just part of the job.

Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.

Leaders set a very clear path every day, in a thousand different ways, of what the people must attend to, inhibit, and keep it current in front of them.

When you're in the real world as President of the United States it doesn't go according to the script.

It's one thing to make the speeches. It's another to make the tough decisions.

We were elected to lead and sometimes we just have to do the right thing.

To govern is to chose.

Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of a good government.

To govern well, one must see things as they are.

Debates measure abilities you don't need to govern, like glibness. To govern you should be thoughtful, not glib. A debater has a sense of humor, but what's it got to do with governing? The ability to think on your feet. You make a budget sitting on your tush.

Failure to recognize the obvious is not a good characteristic of a leader.

When you trust and have elevated personnel in each department, then the sky really is the limit. If you don't have that trust in the backbone of the project, you may not know what you're making.

Bruce Rauner needs to lead, and until he does, we must fight to hold him accountable.