I believe that many of my young guys lived because I didn’t waste their lives because I didn’t have the vision in my mind of how to destroy the enemy at least cost to our guys and to the innocents on the battlefields.

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

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

With tech companies, whoever’s the leader is always questioned, you know. They say, ‚Is this the end of them?‘ And – there’s more – more times people think that’s the case than it really is the case.

I’m not an expert on the arms race.

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.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

We give speeches and pin ribbons onto uniforms, etch names into walls. And all that is fine, but too often, all those tributes, all those words aren’t always backed up by action. And that felt like such a stark contrast to me, because, as we all know, our military is all about action.

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.

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent.

Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

It’s OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don’t want them to catch up because we’re slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse.

In every walk of life, you must have leaders. An education in the spiritual world, in the labor field, in the agricultural field, we must have leaders.

Anyone who’s looked into a newborn’s innocent eyes should realize how incredible it is to be blessed with a new life.

In business, if you realize you’ve made a bad decision, you change it.

It is important to emphasize that guerrilla warfare is a war of the masses, a war of the people. The guerrilla band is an armed nucleus, the fighting vanguard of the people. It draws its great force from the mass of the people themselves.

People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.

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

I’m responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

I like the enemy knowing there are a few guys like me around.

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else – I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

The Marine Corps is the Navy’s police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin’s.

God never meant that people were to wear clothes. He meant we were to be nude. But we were in a state of innocence. Then sin came into the human race and became a blood poisoning.

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.

It’s a juicy thing to say we’re building a phone, which is why people want to write about it. But it’s so clearly the wrong strategy for us.

The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.

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

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

The art of delegation is one of the key skills any entrepreneur must master.

Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

A President cannot always be popular.

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

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team.

The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America. He must guide his conduct by the idealism of our people.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you – what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind – you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy.

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we’re going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.

I don’t want a brat on my team.

The vision is to figure out how there can really be dynamic entrepreneurialism in space.

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

This country is being managed to death, being public related to death.

A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon – no alternative.

We don’t believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans.

And I think it’s that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that.

When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy 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.

Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That’s not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That’s not leadership. That’s abandoning our middle class.

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.

I want a president who will teach our children that everyone in this country matters, a president who truly believes in the vision that our Founders put forth all those years ago that we are all created equal, each a beloved part of the great American story.