Leadership Uncertainty Quotes

Am I going to be good enough, because I don't have head-coaching experience outside of high school football? I've been around a lot of great head coaches in my career, but you begin to doubt. And, for me, it was the doubt of, 'Are the players going to believe me?'

The U.S. cannot implement a cogent strategy on the world stage if no one is sure whether to take the President seriously.

Uncertainty in a leader is always magnified in the heart of the follower.

I think no commander ever is going to come out and say, 'I'm confident that we can do this.'

An election marks the end of the affair; it puts paid to the seduction of the many by the few. Pretty words, fulsome promises. We wind up married, but to whom, to what? We cannot always predict with certainty the future leader from the winning candidate. Some men grow in the job; others are diminished by its demands and its grandeur.

I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey.

The first man put at the helm will be a good one. Nobody knows what sort may come afterward.

Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.

Even when you’re in charge, you’re not sure who’s in charge.

When you give power to an executive, you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.

A team needs leaders to drive it forward, but you never know how it will end.

I think I jumped the gun a bit on head coaching. I got named a head coach at 23, and I really didn't know what I was doing. I remember getting that job and going, 'Oh my God, they gave me the job.'

Dr. Martin Luther King was never a man to say 'I've got this' as the leader of the movement. He wasn't always sure that his decisions were correct, because he knew every decision he made was putting lives at risk, including his and his family's lives.

How do I find someone for a position I've never worked with - or worked under, even? I feel like I'm not qualified to make a lot of these decisions.