Quotes about Leadership

But if Halberstam defined the presidential mien, Trump defied it—and defiled it.

Trump could bring Trumpism down...

Good management reduces ego. But in the Trump White House, it could often seem that nothing happened, that reality simply did not exist, if it did not happen in Trump's presence.

We serve at the president's displeasure,

company built around the instincts, impulses, and gambles of its leader?

The first woman president, Ivanka entertained, would not be Hillary Clinton, it would be Ivanka Trump.

Men who demand the most loyalty tend to be the least loyal pricks,

this was the fundamental hypothesis of the senior staff, shared by Walsh and everyone else: Trump must know what he was doing, his intuition must be profound.

At points on the day's spectrum of adverse political developments, he could have moments of, almost everyone would admit, irrationality. When that happened, he was alone in his anger and not approachable by anyone. His senior staff largely dealt with these dark hours by agreeing with him, no matter what he said. And if some of them occasionally tried to hedge, Hope Hicks never did. She agreed absolutely with all of it.

Jared and Ivanka had made an earnest deal between themselves: if sometime in the future the time came, she'd be the one to run for president (or the first one of them to take the shot).

Trump did not want a White House that ran by any method other than to satisfy his desires.

David Halberstam's The Best and the Brightest.