My authoritarian and quick manner of making decisions led me to have serious problems and to be accused of being ultraconservative. I have never been a right-winger. It was my authoritarian way of making decisions that created problems.

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

I believe in Coach Louis Wong. He is so much more than just a football coach.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.

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.

If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can’t it get us out?

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn’t controversial, that means he never stood for anything.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

I’m of the school of thought where if you can’t sort something out for yourself then no one can help you.

History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.

I don’t spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.

I don’t think I would run for president.

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

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that’s what everybody needs to know.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

When you’re 40, you can’t ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

I want a president who will teach our children that everyone in this country matters, a president who truly believes in the vision that our Founders put forth all those years ago that we are all created equal, each a beloved part of the great American story.

Learn to say ‚no‘ to the good so you can say ‚yes‘ to the best.

I base a lot of decisions on my gut, and going with an independent label was a good one.

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

The common question that gets asked in business is, ‚why?‘ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, ‚why not?‘

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

I had noticed that many of these successful people, historical and contemporary, shared certain common traits. They had a way of thinking that was exceptionally fluid; they could adapt to almost any circumstance; when confronted with problems, they could look at them from novel perspectives and solve them.

A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

When I take action, I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It’s going to be decisive.

A leader who confines his role to his people’s experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people’s experience runs the risk of not being understood.

Those who cry out that the government should ‚do something‘ never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing.

If I’m going to get you to do stuff, I need to lead you. I can’t just order you to do it.

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.

I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?

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

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

People who think too much before they act don’t act too much.

My mother had a saying: ‚Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last.‘

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.

The colonel replied that he didn’t care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

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.

But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we’ve been thinking about a problem.

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

The buck stops here!

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

If it wasn’t for the fun and money, I really don’t know why I’d bother.

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

We spend so much time sublimatin‘, thinkin‘ about, ‚What am I going to have for lunch, dinner?‘

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.