Anybody who tells you that a two-day conference, you’re going to turn into the General Patton of leadership, they’re not telling you the truth. But you can learn the fundamentals; you can absolutely understand the fundamentals.

This country is being managed to death, being public related to death.

Read about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.

Leaders who are kind of insecure or egocentric, they basically sabotage themselves.

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.

The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense.

I’m trying my best to keep up with all this new technology, and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.

The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America. He must guide his conduct by the idealism of our people.

I’m not trying to get myself up a notch on the ladder by shoving somebody else down on the ladder, whether it’s a candidate or the president of the United States or anybody else. I just don’t believe that’s the way one oughta campaign, I’ve never done that.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind. It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

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

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

To master a new technology, you have to play with it.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge – that is everywhere.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we’re going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‚Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

The way people look at me these days – that’s the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who’ve attained a certain position are human.

The government’s job is good governance for everybody. My government will make policies; if you fit into it, come on board, or stay where you are. My job is not to spoon-feed anyone.

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

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

As commanders and staff officers, we are coaches and sentries for our units: how can we coach anything if we don’t know a hell of a lot more than just the TTPs?

Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.

I really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion.

I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

Look, when you’re the president, there’s all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it’s just the nature of the job.

I’ve had a lot of success; I’ve had failures, so I learn from the failure.

I’m no leader; I’m a little humble follower.

I’ve seen how the issues that come across a president’s desk are always the hard ones – the problems where no amount of data or numbers will get you to the right answer.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

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.

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.

If the American people don’t love me, their descendants will.

If you continue to keep low performers on your team, that are actually dragging the team down; you’re failing the whole team, and eventually, the whole team is going to fail.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you’re held responsible for everything, but you don’t always have control of everything, right?

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know the Obama administration wants to do around the urgency of climate change.

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

That’s the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

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.

Why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

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.

We want Facebook to be one of the best places people can go to learn how to build stuff. If you want to build a company, nothing better than jumping in and trying to build one. But Facebook is also great for entrepreneurs/hackers. If people want to come for a few years and move on and build something great, that’s something we’re proud of.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

I have a cult-like following because I exemplify what it is to be a human being.