Fit no stereotypes. Don’t chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team’s mission.

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life.

It’s amazing, the culture Coach Belichick has been able to create in our system.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

I believe in Coach Louis Wong. He is so much more than just a football coach.

After winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent.

HartBeat Productions is a company established by me; it’s mine. I run it. I have employees.

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

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

I’m more than comfortable just sitting back and scoring 21, 22 points or whatever and getting 10, 11 assists whatever the case might be. More than comfortable with that. It’s just a matter of the pieces that you have around you and what you can do to elevate everybody else.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

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.

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

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.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees.

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

Remember that the essence of authority is that people willingly follow your lead.

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

We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times… and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That’s not leadership. That’s not going to happen.

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.

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

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.

You look at another team’s style and how they do it, and you just want to understand how they’re doing it and see if you can learn something and maybe implement it into what your team does.

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

Personally, I’d like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.

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.

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

I understand everybody in this country doesn’t agree with the decisions I’ve made. And I made some tough decisions. But people know where I stand.

Being prime minister is a lonely job… you cannot lead from the crowd.

Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.

How easy it is to govern when one follows a system of consulting the will of the people and one holds as the only norm all the actions which contribute to the well being of the people.

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

One of the things that was really an issue was I did not want to just be a woman secretary of state. I wanted to be a secretary of a state who was a woman, but not just chosen for that particular reason.

A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.

The buck stops here!

The story being told in ‚Star Wars‘ is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you’re in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they’re actually not.

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

I’m no longer just a candidate. I’m the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn’t return. I’ve shared the pain of families who’ve lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who’ve lost their jobs.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

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.

We named the book ‚Extreme Ownership‘ because we really found that when we looked at not only at leaders but at teams that were the most successful, we found that the ones that had this attitude of extreme ownership were the ones that did the best, and it’s definitely an attitude that I had.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

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

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.

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn’t matter if you’re a Democrat or a Republican, young or old.

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn’t controversial, that means he never stood for anything.

If you’re a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.