I have always believed in evolving a consensus before taking any major decision.

I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

I don’t believe in signing anything and everything that comes my way. I leave it to my agency to help narrow them down for me, but I do research it myself before signing. The image of the brand and its ambassadors go hand in hand.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.

To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.

We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

Leadership is influence.

As president, you can get all kinds of advice from all kinds of people. But at the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values and your vision and the life experiences that make you who you are.

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

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

Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.

Of all the things I’ve done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.

I won’t do something unless I can get at least two or three good laughs out of it. If I can’t, it’s not gonna make the team.

I think I was identified as a failed president because I wasn’t re-elected.

Every President I think I’ve ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn’t quite get done what they wanted done. And toward the end of their Administrations, they were disappointed and wished they had done some things differently.

If you like a person you say ‚let’s go into business together.‘ Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

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.

To me, a leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes. And so what I think is really important is sustainability.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.

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

It never bothered me when people would say, ‚You only win championships because you’re playing with Shaq.‘ It bothered me when he said it.

When you play sports like tennis, you’re alone, and that’s a good school for life, but it’s also a good school for life to bring your best and make those around you better, too – helping others in difficult moments.

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

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

I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

People don’t realise how difficult it is to work with people day in and day out that know absolutely nothing.

In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake.

Ever since Israel has been a nation the United States has provided the leadership. Every president down to the ages has done this in a fairly balanced way, including George Bush senior, Gerald Ford, and others including myself and Bill Clinton.

Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.

Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.

Steve Jobs‘ ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.

Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.

It is our future on the line, and we must at least have a say in it.

Putin goes to bed at night knowing he can break all the rules, and the West will follow all the rules.

My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

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.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‚Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

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

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I earned everything I’ve got.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

Thinking isn’t agreeing or disagreeing. That’s voting.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

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.

I’ve turned down shows offering large amounts of money.

It is unnecessary to say that Fidel Castro possesses the high qualities of a fighter and statesman: our path, our struggle, and our triumph we owed to his vision.