The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power – including strong and principled diplomacy.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I earned everything I’ve got.

We named the book ‚Extreme Ownership‘ because we really found that when we looked at not only at leaders but at teams that were the most successful, we found that the ones that had this attitude of extreme ownership were the ones that did the best, and it’s definitely an attitude that I had.

Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

What matters in the Sun-tzu universe are not positions of strength and power, but situations in which you have options, full of potential force.

In my heart, I’m confident I could make a good president.

I have seen how leaders rule by intimidation. Leaders who demonize and dehumanize entire groups of people often do so because they have nothing else to offer. And I have seen how places that stifle the voices and dismiss the potential of their citizens are diminished: how they are less vital, less hopeful, less free.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It’s a lesson I’ve had to relearn quite a few times.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

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.

A saint serves others, knowing that the more one serves, the greater the opportunity for the Spirit to sanctify and purify.

Our love, our gratitude, our admiration for our men and women in uniform, our veterans and their families – all of that is bigger than any one party or any one election.

No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.

One thing I just want to say to the military families – while you might not wear a uniform, I know – we all know, the nation knows – that you serve and sacrifice right alongside of your loved ones. And we are so grateful and proud of all of you for your service to this nation.

When I checked into SEAL Team One many years ago, one of the things that I noticed was there was this old guy, who was younger than I am today, who I decided that I was going to be like. I wanted to emulate what he was doing, and one of those things was he got to work before anybody else.

You know, you can only lead them from behind.

By ancestry, I was born to rule.

The President is always abused. If he isn’t, he isn’t doing anything.

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree’s fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down – bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds.

Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.

A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

Preparation for a mission is important. A mission is a voluntary act of service to God and humankind. Missionaries support that privilege with their personal savings. Parents, families, friends, and donors to the General Missionary Fund may also assist.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.

I always tell people that you should only hire people to be on your team if you would work for them.

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

I like to always lead from the front and set an example for whoever is playing with me or around me. I like taking responsibilities. That is my natural thing.

The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument… an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

I have done for my country, and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God – my daughter to my country.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world’s strongest economy.

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I fear that too many have sadly surrendered their agency to the adversary and are saying by their conduct, ‚I care more about satisfying my own desires than I do about bearing the Savior’s power to bless others.‘

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

My problem is I am Christian, so I think other people must have success, too; it’s not about me.

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.

History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.

Through every victory and every setback, I’ve insisted that change is never easy and never quick; that we wouldn’t meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one lifetime.

If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.

A good model of how to ‚work with the enemy‘ internally is presented by the Dalai Lama, in his endless caretaking of his soul as he confronts the Chinese government that invaded Tibet.

I’ve been so blessed to play for the greatest coach at a time when our organization has done incredible things. I’ve played with the best teammates. Playing for Mr. Kraft and what his influence on the team has been.

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

We need to have business leaders who live by deep, strong principles.

Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

When trouble breaks out, our men and women in uniform, they don’t just sit around thinking about it or talking about it – they act. They put on that uniform. They leave their loved ones behind. They go out there. They give orders. They follow orders. They do whatever it takes to keep our country safe.

Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.

Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.

I came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don’t go out with Halley’s Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: ‚Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.‘

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed.