Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.

You can sometimes play some really good football and not score.

Dr. Karel Culik is an outstanding applied mathematician, a specialist in algebra, logic, computer sciences and mathematical linguistics. In 1965, he visited the linguistics research program at MIT, and we have worked together on several projects since.

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.

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.

There are definitely designers that I love, people I love to work with. And who they are as people matters. Are they good people? Do they treat their staff well? Do they treat my staff well? Are they young? Can I give them a boost? But when all of that is equal… is it cute?

Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.

I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people’s trust in their government.

The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it’s Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.

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

In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‚we have a problem, let’s go and get it‘.

I have no delusions about my likability in every scenario. I know that in order to get things done the way you want them, oftentimes your position will be unpopular.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

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.

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

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

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.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

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.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

When you’re not engaged in the day-to-day struggles that everybody feels, you slowly start losing touch. And I think it’s important for the people in the White House to have a finger on the pulse.

No cricket team in the world depends on one or two players. The team always plays to win.

There are some women I definitely would not want to succeed me… but a man like David Souter, that would be great.

You do the policy, I’ll do the politics.

I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.

I’m a pretty funny guy, and I would love to do a comedy with a bunch of funny guys – movie-star guys, where they could help me through it.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

The British people know that, given strong leadership, time, and a little bit of hope, the forces of good ultimately rally and triumph over evil.

Our best thoughts come from others.

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

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

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do 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.

We must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

Most people would assume my business success, and the wealth that comes with it, have brought me happiness. But I know I am successful, wealthy, and connected because I am happy.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

The issues that cross a president’s desk are never easy. The easy questions don’t even get to the president.

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.

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 love that for Barack, there is no such thing as ‚us‘ and ‚them‘ – he doesn’t care whether you’re a Democrat, a Republican, or none of the above… he knows that we all love our country… and he’s always ready to listen to good ideas… he’s always looking for the very best in everyone he meets.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You’re looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

My relationship to power and authority is that I’m all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

Surveys show our standing around the world is higher than when I was elected to this office, and when it comes to every important international issue, people of the world do not look to Beijing or Moscow to lead – they call us.

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

Football is a team game and none can survive or excel without the help of the other.

As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that I could control.

I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

A master performer like Bill Clinton never lost sight of the fact that as president he had to project confidence and power, but if he was speaking to a group of autoworkers he would adjust his accent and his words to fit the audience, and do the same for a group of executives.

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.