If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

All my life, I’ve been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I’ve come is a bogey.

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents‘ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

When I started my last business, I didn’t receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can’t handle that pressure.

The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

I care very deeply about the people at Tesla. I feel like I have a great debt to the people of Tesla who are making the company successful.

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

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

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

I don’t regard myself as a cracking good climber. I’m just strong in the back. I have a lot of enthusiasm, and I’m good on ice.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

The one way to get me to work my hardest was to doubt me.

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It’s scary.

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

Surveys show our standing around the world is higher than when I was elected to this office, and when it comes to every important international issue, people of the world do not look to Beijing or Moscow to lead – they call us.

A lot was accomplished in my mixtape career. But I still needed a few things: I needed to be recognized. I need to have radio. I need to have a real retail machine that can get us where we need to get that.

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

I plan on taking athletics as far as I can.

Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

I’m definitely gaining new fans, and that’s the key of any success… gain more love.

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

To make headway, improve your head.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

I went through every emotion with tryna pursue what I’m doing, you know what I mean? And I think what’s gon‘ separate whoever’s gon go for something, that you ain’t gon‘ quit.

For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.

It constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis. Without them, the changes would be impossible.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

People make a big fuss over you when you’re President. But I’m very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn’t go to my head.

Every President I think I’ve ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn’t quite get done what they wanted done. And toward the end of their Administrations, they were disappointed and wished they had done some things differently.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

It’s the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.

The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

I need to do well and show I’m a worthy driver in F1.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul… we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

It is unnecessary to say that Fidel Castro possesses the high qualities of a fighter and statesman: our path, our struggle, and our triumph we owed to his vision.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.

I think that once you’ve had a few No. 1s in your career that you’ve kind of proven yourself, and I don’t feel the need to prove anything anymore.

This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.

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.