Luis Enrique Quotes

In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.

Character in leadership is the most important balance for leadership. Without character, leaders have no safety. Leadership has no protection without character.

We have got to stop worrying about being loved and start worrying about being respected. And that's exactly how I'll lead our country.

I'm not buddy-buddy with the players. If they need a buddy, let them buy a dog.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

To be honest, the fact that people trust you gives you a lot of power over people. Having another person's trust is more powerful than all other management techniques put together.

I was no chief and never had been, but because I had been more deeply wronged than others, this honor was conferred upon me, and I resolved to prove worthy of the trust.

Never apologize, mister. It's a sign of weakness.

Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

I strongly believe in the principle of accountability and responsibility. It is the foundation of leadership.

If you draw [red] lines and then don't respect them, you diminish your credibility.

I'm privileged to occasionally stand on a table, and people listen to what I say, and in those moments, it's important to me that I have something to say and that I honor it.

What Australians expect of leaders is a bit of integrity.

To be a leader, regardless of what party you're in, is to tell your followers what lines not to cross.

Trust is something I know has to be earned whether you're a husband, a father, or a congressman.

Trust is a big word for a manager. You expect certain standards and attitudes and they know if they lower those standards, I'll jump on them.

I take my responsibilities to this House very seriously.

People don't take you seriously, so you have to take yourself seriously.

I have no problem going on record with this and probably have gone on record with this before, there aren't that many people who I respect. There just aren't.

We are all equal on this floor, and a senator must keep his word.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

I don't work with people who ask me questions.

I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.