People invest in businesses that they believe have the leadership, mission and team to grow and operate profitably.

Having the support from everyone, the bosses, whoever within the team, definitely makes it much easier for me as a driver.

Being prime minister is a lonely job… you cannot lead from the crowd.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

I’m just looking to learn, grow, stay focused, and become a better fighter and a better athlete.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

The future is purchased by the present.

My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can’t run a state.

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

My dear sisters, whatever your calling, whatever your circumstances, we need your impressions, your insights, and your inspiration. We need you to speak up and speak out in ward and stake councils.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

Folks, you’re the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks, you sacrificed to keep your companies open. Because of your productivity, the combined auto companies have committed to invest another $23 billion in expansion in America.

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

If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.

If one has the answers to all the questions – that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

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

The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive.

Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

One must steer, not talk.

In military school, on day one you must memorize the mission of the Merchant Marine Academy.

Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I’ve changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

If you call yourself a leader, then you have to be decisive. If you’re decisive, then you have the chance to be a leader. These are two sides to the same coin.

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

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

I’m no longer just a candidate. I’m the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn’t return. I’ve shared the pain of families who’ve lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who’ve lost their jobs.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it’s egotism.

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America’s debt.

We were born with a capacity to grow, love, marry, and form families.

My game is really played above time. I don’t say that like I’m saying I’m ahead of my time. I’m saying, like, if I’m on the court and I throw a pass, the ball that I’ve thrown will lead my teammate right where he needs to go, before he even knows that that’s the right place to go to.

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

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

I never wanted to stay in one genre; I never wanted to be pigeon-holed or defined as the actor who only worked in one genre. I want to be able to work in all different genres. For me it’s fun, and that’s how I grow as an actor.

All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don’t know except it looked good.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

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.

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance… you thrive on that.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin‘.

You know I vowed when I became President not to talk about the loneliest toughest job in the world and I didn’t.

The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it – oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.

When you’re young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.