Service of any type requires preparation.

The future is purchased by the present.

I did 20 years in the Navy. I joined the Navy right out of high school and went through Navy boot camp, went to SEAL training, got done with that, and then showed up at a SEAL team, where I did 20 years. That was pretty much my whole adult life.

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.

One thing I just want to say to the military families – while you might not wear a uniform, I know – we all know, the nation knows – that you serve and sacrifice right alongside of your loved ones. And we are so grateful and proud of all of you for your service to this nation.

When you campaign and have to participate in so many debates just to the win the nomination of your party, you’ve had a lot of practice. You get to figure out as you go from one debate to another where you made your mistakes. By the time you get to the big debate you’re pretty polished.

We’re running the company to serve more people.

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.

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

As a kid, I’d go into the bathroom when I was having a tantrum. I’d be in the bathroom crying, studying myself in the mirror. I was preparing for future roles.

It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.

Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.

This is Sunday, and the question arises, what’ll I start tomorrow?

Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.

You should not build your customer service system on the premise that your organisation will never question the whims of your clients.

Missionaries serve to make life better for God’s children.

Studies have identified a significant ‚skills gap‘ between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today’s global economy. Our children must be better prepared than they are now to meet the future challenges of our ever-changing world.

Predicting rain doesn’t count. Building arks does.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.

The neo-cons constitute a radical reactionary fringe of the planning spectrum, but the spectrum is narrow.

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.

Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‚Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?‘ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.

I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.

When I retire I’m going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.

When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical – one has to be when writing a novel. Writing poetry is a state of free float.

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

Oh yes. I’m an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought.

If you’re not ready for everything, you’re not ready for anything.

When you work with kids, especially, you want to be ready to turn the camera on at a moment’s notice.

The Corps is in good hands, and it’s been a privilege to serve with the Leathernecks. Now it’s time to go.

Differences exist in practice and organization between the Lord’s Church and man-made institutions.

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

I’m very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories.

Order is heaven’s first law.

Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.

The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

ESPN is a great organization to work for.

If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

Most people don’t like change. They revolt against it unless they can clearly see the advantage it brings. For that reason, when good leaders prepare to take action or make changes, they take people through a process to get them ready for it.

The gods‘ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!

I won’t belong to any organization that would have me as a member.

These wretched babies don’t come until they are ready.

I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.

Some people wonder all their lives if they’ve made a difference. The Marines don’t have that problem.

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

I’d be so bored if I wasn’t going out there, knowing that I could still do it. So, I’m going to work hard to be ready to go, and I still plan on playing for a long time.

I never expect to lose. Even when I’m the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.

Too often we act – ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we’re giving them children who have, you know, they’re not ready to learn. And if they’re not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they’re behind.

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.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.