A company is a group organized to create a product or service, and it is only as good as its people and how excited they are about creating. I do want to recognize a ton of super-talented people. I just happen to be the face of the companies.

There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don’t usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp.

Of all the things I’ve done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life. And when I think about the kind of president that I want for my girls and all our children, that’s what I want.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

When I was running training, we would fire a couple of leaders from every SEAL team because they couldn’t lead. And 99.9% of the time, it wasn’t a question of their ability – it was a question of their ability to listen.

We have a great group of guys that really sacrifice every night, care about each other, and try to play the right away.

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

All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

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

Among us, who is above must be in service of the others. This doesn’t mean we have to wash each other’s feet every day, but we must help one another.

You can’t have a value structure without a hierarchy. They’re the same thing because a value structure means one thing takes precedence over another.

A President’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

You do the policy, I’ll do the politics.

My celebrity status allows me an opportunity, allows me a pulpit to preach and reach out to the people. Not even always preaching but just leading, motivating them by being a leader.

If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.

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.

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It’s the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.

If I can be a leader, I will.

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

One man with courage is a majority.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give it to them.

God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.

I think our democracy has it exactly right: two terms, eight years. It’s enough. Because it’s important to have one foot in reality when you have access to this kind of power.

Rascals are always sociable, more’s the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others‘ company.

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

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

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

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

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

If you’re a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

I played football for a team called the East Dragons on the east side of town. We only had six regular season games. And six games I played tail back and I had 18 touchdowns in six games. That’s when I knew I had some athletic ability.

I’m the only president you’ve got.

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.

The time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to promote polarizing attitudes and actions that are counterproductive for minorities and disastrous for the country.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

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

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.

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem.

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.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.

And I think it’s that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that.

When things haven’t gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.

A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many times and places around the world, and have failed time and again.