We also can’t try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That’s not leadership; that’s a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It’s the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq – and we should have learned it by now.

The Iranians have shot down drones. They tried to destroy the Saudi oil fields. They tried to storm our embassy. So, when my Democratic friends say we need appeasement, well appeasement hasn’t worked. And I think that we’ve learned, with respect to Iran, that weakness invites the wolves.

We need an adult in the White House. When making life-or-death, war-or-peace decisions, a president can’t just pop off or lash out irrationally.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

How easy it is to govern when one follows a system of consulting the will of the people and one holds as the only norm all the actions which contribute to the well being of the people.

I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

When I took over as president, I studied the Constitution, and the more I studied it, the more I realised that it does not prevent the president of India from giving the nation a vision. So when I went and presented this vision in Parliament and in legislative assemblies; everyone welcomed it, irrespective of party affiliations.

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

When President George W. Bush attempted to reform Social Security, that proposal was more unpopular with Americans than the Iraq war. People love their entitlements.

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

I’m more than comfortable just sitting back and scoring 21, 22 points or whatever and getting 10, 11 assists whatever the case might be. More than comfortable with that. It’s just a matter of the pieces that you have around you and what you can do to elevate everybody else.

I am confident that when the facts and policies have been examined, when the record of performances have been reviewed, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will once again be elected to lead our beloved country to a better future.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

When it comes to the qualifications that we should demand of our president, to start with, we need someone who will take the job seriously.

Ever since Israel has been a nation the United States has provided the leadership. Every president down to the ages has done this in a fairly balanced way, including George Bush senior, Gerald Ford, and others including myself and Bill Clinton.

There are some women I definitely would not want to succeed me… but a man like David Souter, that would be great.

Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories… We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that’s out there.

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

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

I’m the president of the United States. I’m not the emperor of the United States.

One of my direct subordinates, one of my guys that worked for me, he would call me up or pull me aside with some major problem, some issue that was going on. And he’d say, ‚Boss, we’ve got this, and that, and the other thing.‘ And I’d look at him and I’d say, ‚Good.‘

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

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

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

You can play fast but not in a hurry. As a point guard, I can dictate that.

I want a president with a record of public service: someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase form and fortune for ourselves; we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don’t have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven’t had that fear.

It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‚least advanced‘ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.

I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

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

Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn’t smooth. You’ll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don’t believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up.

If you want to occupy the C-suite or the top one-tenth of 1% in any organization, you have to be obsessively devoted to your career at the expense of everything else. And women look at that, and they think, ‚No.‘

Americans… still believe in an America where anything’s possible – they just don’t think their leaders do.

People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.

Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.

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

The American escalation of the war in Laos provoked a response by the Communist forces, which now control more of Laos than ever before.

All leaders in the Lord’s Church are called by proper authority. No prophet or any other leader in this Church, for that matter, has ever called himself or herself. No prophet has ever been elected.

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

I don’t think consensus-building politics is what I’m meant to be doing.

Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

One of the key qualities a leader must possess is the ability to detach from the chaos, mayhem, and emotions in a situation and make good, clear decisions based on what is actually happening.

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.

I’m a lad of the ’60s. I started a magazine to try and end the Vietnam war, but it was a number of years before I had the profile, the financial resources and the time to do more.

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

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

Political courage is not political suicide.

The President’s post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.

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.

It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.