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

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

The most important thing for a director is being able to communicate.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

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

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.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

It’s one of the few regrets of my presidency – that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better. There’s no doubt a president with the gifts of Lincoln or Roosevelt might have better bridged the divide, and I guarantee I’ll keep trying to be better so long as I hold this office.

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

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

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider… the riders contend for its possession.

Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.

Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.

And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.

You know we’re going to control the insurance companies.

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.

Leadership is influence.

You listen to Charlie Parker or John Coltrane before they found their voice, they sounded different. And when you listen to them after they found their voice on their instruments, they sound more confident and in control. Artists have that, too.

The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

My authoritarian and quick manner of making decisions led me to have serious problems and to be accused of being ultraconservative. I have never been a right-winger. It was my authoritarian way of making decisions that created problems.

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.

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.

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.

Always do everything you ask of those you command.

I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government.

Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

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

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.

In my heart, I’m confident I could make a good president.

Leaders who are kind of insecure or egocentric, they basically sabotage themselves.

Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.

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.‘

How can a president not be an actor?

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

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.

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

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.

Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‚Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?‘ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.

To some degree it matters who’s in office, but it matters more how much pressure they’re under from the public.

Barack knows the American Dream because he’s lived it, and he wants everyone in this country to have that same opportunity, no matter who we are or where we’re from or what we look like or who we love.

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,‘ he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. ‚Shake it off. Stop complainin‘. Stop grumblin‘. Stop cryin‘. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

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.

I’m not comparing myself with anyone, but I am very confident about my captaincy, as I have already led India and in the IPL also. I have confidence I can bring out each player’s ability fully and also give them a lot of confidence… I would like to stick to what I know best and what I have confidence in.

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.

There are massive efforts on the part of the internet’s corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.

People and organizations don’t grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses.

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

I’m asking myself, ‚What do my girls, what do all our children deserve in their president? What kind of a president do we want for them?‘ Well, to start with, I think we want someone who is a unifying force in this country: someone who sees our differences not as a threat, but as a blessing.

You know I vowed when I became President not to talk about the loneliest toughest job in the world and I didn’t.