Power & Leadership Sayings

I was not looking for trouble, but I was not going to run away from it.

I am not a woman. I am a machine. I am a thinking machine, but I have no feelings.

The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

You cannot make omelettes without breaking eggs.

There is a certain exhilaration in working with people who are doing things, whether they are right or wrong.

I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for the body in the coach.

The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it goes along, even when the mind wants to wander.

I'm not a follower. I'm a leader.

I'm not a follower. I'm a leader.

I never guess. It is a shocking habit—destructive to the logical faculty.

I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role.

The whole world is looking at us. We must not disappoint them.

The lure of the unknown is too strong to resist.

I have lost all power over words. Can't do a thing with them.

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

I like to work fast because it keeps me from thinking too much.

The only rule is: there are no rules.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I disliked would disappear.

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball—the further I am rolled the more I gain.