We need to have business leaders who live by deep, strong principles.

Please don’t make the mistake of thinking that ‚Oryx and Crake‘ is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing and tools, it can be turned to bad uses. And it can be bought and sold, and it often is. But it is not in itself bad. Like electricity, it’s neutral.

Damn your principles! Stick to your party.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future that we might have is that it will be led by women and older women.

I just think overall there’s not as many female ministers than there are male ministers.

We learned about dignity and decency – that how hard you work matters more than how much you make… that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.

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

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.

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

A mission statement is not something you write overnight… But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value.

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

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

There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?

I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government.

Scouting is nothing less than applied Christianity.

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.

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.

If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more than elsewhere, there’s layer after layer of management – a kind of economic waste, but useful for control and domination. And the same is true in universities.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

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

Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the people who are on the front line.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.

Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.

The computer brings out the worst in some people.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what’s right. Freedom is right.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

I do believe that any successful business starts from the top and works its way down.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

I don’t want a brat on my team.

What is permissible is not always honorable.

Respect is one of life’s greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don’t have that?

I don’t want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He’s a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

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.

Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.

To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.

People make a big fuss over you when you’re President. But I’m very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn’t go to my head.

When I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy. I didn’t set out to build a business empire… For me, building a business is all about doing something to be proud of, bringing talented people together and creating something that’s going to make a real difference to other people’s lives.

Sadly, the truth is, there aren’t many people who can be put in high positions who won’t start thinking highly of themselves.

The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

Putin goes to bed at night knowing he can break all the rules, and the West will follow all the rules.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

You can play fast but not in a hurry. As a point guard, I can dictate that.

Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.

There’s strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

When the best leader’s work is done the people say, ‚We did it ourselves.‘