A director makes 100 decisions an hour. Students ask me how you know how to make the right decision, and I say to them, ‚If you don’t know how to make the right decision, you’re not a director.‘

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

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

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

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.

How do leaders serve their people? They may pay good wages and treat employees with respect.

When Hillary was First Lady, we went to the Beijing Women’s Conference. She courageously stood up and spoke out on behalf of human rights and women’s rights, inspiring millions to fight for a better future.

Don’t swap horses in crossing a stream.

I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

Every first-term president has to learn something after he comes into office. Nobody can be completely ready for the inevitable crises.

I act on impulse and I go with my instincts.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.

To me, a leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes. And so what I think is really important is sustainability.

A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.

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

When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn’t for you. It’s for the Presidency.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

From a young age, I learned to focus on the things I was good at and delegate to others what I was not good at. That’s how Virgin is run. Fantastic people throughout the Virgin Group run our businesses, allowing me to think creatively and strategically.

I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know the Obama administration wants to do around the urgency of climate change.

I thank God I’m in a position where I can pick and choose – there are some roles I don’t play.

Some day I shall be President.

I have too many clothes, I have too many options.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

The more players I have, the more difficult choices there are for me, but the better it is for LFC.

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.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Barack knows the American Dream because he’s lived it, and he wants everyone in this country to have that same opportunity, no matter who we are or where we’re from or what we look like or who we love.

At one point he decided enough was enough.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

As president, you can get all kinds of advice from all kinds of people. But at the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values and your vision and the life experiences that make you who you are.

I am not saying I am the best manager in the world. But I’m quite good.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure.

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

It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone.

I just know what is right and I want to do what is right.

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

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

Quitting is the easiest thing to do.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

When I’m in management meetings when we’re deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I’m the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That’s the part of my life where I feel most in control.

When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.

By most accounts, Aristide is the most popular figure in Haiti.

When you’re in a leadership role, you can never please all of the people all of the time. There’s also a lot of responsibility that goes along with it that others may not realize.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

I realized why directors are such horrible people – in a way – because you want things to be right, and people will just not listen to you, and there is no time to be nice to people, no time to be delicate.

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

Listen, I think that people want a president who is going to be interested in the things that keep them up at night, the things that are weighing on them, the things that are debilitating and can be addressed.

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

If I have the chance to say something, I will say it – but that doesn’t obligate me to always say something, or to shed light on every problem, as if I were a lawmaker.

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