Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.

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

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.

When I took over as president, I studied the Constitution, and the more I studied it, the more I realised that it does not prevent the president of India from giving the nation a vision. So when I went and presented this vision in Parliament and in legislative assemblies; everyone welcomed it, irrespective of party affiliations.

Louis van Gaal is one of the most successful managers in the world.

I’ve been a mogul and executive since the beginning of my career. People are just born with that skill.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

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.

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility – I welcome it.

When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying.

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

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

If you continue to keep low performers on your team, that are actually dragging the team down; you’re failing the whole team, and eventually, the whole team is going to fail.

Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don’t do that, we really deserve the world we get.

I have often been asked what I think about at the moment of take-off. Of course, no pilot sits and feels his pulse as he flies. He has to be part of the machine. If he thinks of anything but the task in hand, then trouble is probably just around the corner.

Example is leadership.

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

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top – I’m afraid that’s not quite right.

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class.

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.

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

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

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

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, ‚We did it ourselves.‘

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

Some people say that the climate crisis is something that we will have created, but that is not true, because if everyone is guilty then no one is to blame. And someone is to blame.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

The way people look at me these days – that’s the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who’ve attained a certain position are human.

I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters – two beautiful, intelligent black young women – playing with their dogs on the White House lawn. And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters, and all our sons and daughters, now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States.

Algorithms diminish public safety in this country. They ask us to pretend that lengthy arrest records and violent crimes don’t matter. They ask police to scoop up the bad guys only for the courts to immediately release them. They turn us into a bad joke.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

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.

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is ‚to be prepared‘.

Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn’t smooth. You’ll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don’t believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up.

The onus is on the managers to send out an attacking formation and to tell their players to be bold.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

We are not spending the Federal Government’s money, we are spending the taxpayer’s money, and it must be spent n a way which guarantees his money’s worth and yields the fullest possible benefit to the people being helped.

The wisest have the most authority.

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

And now, of course this is another thing I didn’t count on, that now as the governor of the state of California, I am selling California worldwide. You see that? Selling.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

There are some teams and logos you see, no matter where you are in the world, and you know exactly who they are and what they mean.

I’m not somebody that just wants to hold up a white flag and say, ‚Let’s all just get along.‘ I think people that do horrible things should be held accountable.

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.

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get – The Future!

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.

My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty… it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

I’m skeptical of any mission that has advertisers at its centerpiece.