Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.

Time is bunk.

Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

Whenever I counsel someone who feels called to be an evangelist, I always urge them to guard their time and not feel like they have to do everything.

Always do everything you ask of those you command.

I have been on the road and visited numerous places and met people from all over the globe. I can say that it looks nearly the same everywhere I have been: The climate crisis is ignored by people in charge, despite the science being crystal clear.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

Time is money.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

Time is the least thing we have of.

One must steer, not talk.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it’s egotism.

Time abides long enough for those who make use of it.

I put out one album one week, and I’m already worried about the next one. I feel a lot of emotion throughout the course of a day. But not to the point where you need to be worried about me.

I often work by avoidance.

Every President wants to do right.

If I had chosen the populist course, it would have been a breach of the trust placed in me by the people.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

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.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

To lead people walk behind them.

What’ll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?

Here in the West, people often don’t like listening to their leaders, even if they are right.

People are so caught in a routine, doing the same things over and over.

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

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 future is purchased by the present.

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

Gentleness doesn’t get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

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

That’s one of the biggest things. Never being home, always traveling, having different interests and focusing on different things, just the time aspect of going back home and seeing them, you don’t have that at all. It was a big sacrifice but, at the end of the day, it was worth it.

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

Before I became a chief minister, I never thought that one day I’d be the chief minister.

All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

The authority you establish must emerge naturally from your character, from the particular strengths you possess.

Control is the source of strategic power.

I know it’s going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we’re in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.

I think our democracy has it exactly right: two terms, eight years. It’s enough. Because it’s important to have one foot in reality when you have access to this kind of power.

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

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

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.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.

When I take action, I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It’s going to be decisive.

If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

I don’t run restaurants that are out of control. We are about establishing phenomenal footholdings with talent.

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

It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‚least advanced‘ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.

America’s promises do not come with a price tag. We meet our commitments. We bear our burdens. That’s one of the reasons why almost every country on Earth sees America as stronger and more respected today than they did eight years ago when I took office.

I’ve always put everybody else’s child first before my own health, before my own outfit, before my own time frame.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Chavez, who came out of the ranks of the Venezuelan Army, is methodical and tireless. I have observed him over the course of 17 years, since his first visit to Cuba. He is an extremely humanitarian and law-abiding person; he has never taken revenge on anybody.

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.

I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.