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.

Rule number one is: Beat your team-mate.

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.

There were the questions of what kind of First Lady I would be, what issues would I focus on. Those were the questions that were being pounded on me through the campaign. A lot of times, I wondered what in the world Barack was even getting us into.

I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I’m sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don’t even know when you’re being compromised till after the fact, and that’s what you regret.

Some people want to win races. Other people want to be President of the United States.

The time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to promote polarizing attitudes and actions that are counterproductive for minorities and disastrous for the country.

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

Even the best and biggest teams in the world do not reach finals of tournaments.

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.

We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.

Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you’ve started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can’t get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?

I feel that the best companies are started not because the founder wanted a company but because the founder wanted to change the world… If you decide you want to found a company, you maybe start to develop your first idea. And hire lots of workers.

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

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

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.

The next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

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

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

What we achieve individually is important but it’s never ever more than the team does.

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

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.

I tend not to like an awful lot of what is going out under my name now because it is just all product. Who needs it?

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.

It’d be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren’t kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I’m not a baby sitter.

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

The President is always abused. If he isn’t, he isn’t doing anything.

I’m glad I’m not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone’s tape recording what you say.

We will naturally pursue our goals on the strength of our own resources, skills and enterprise. But, we know that we will be more successful when we do this in partnership with the world.

I remember the last three days that I was president, I never went to bed at all. I never went to bed until we had negotiated the final release of the hostages.

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

I loved being Secretary of State, that’s probably evident to everyone who watched me.

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it.

The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don’t have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven’t had that fear.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

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.

It doesn’t take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today – and in fact we have forgotten.

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

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

Carry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don’t ever apologize for anything.

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

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

3D is a way of organizing things, particularly as we’re getting much more media information on the computer, a lot more choices, a lot more navigation than we’ve ever had before.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

If you watch me during the game, I celebrate when we press the ball and it goes out.

Whoever won’t fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.

Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.