I will only hire someone to work directly for me if I would work for that person. It’s a pretty good test.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

My job is to play quarterback, and I’m going to do that the best way I know how, because I owe that to my teammates regardless of who is out there on the field with me.

But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven’t exactly been non-aggressive – including me.

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

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.

I’ve got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I’ve got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.

I like to always lead from the front and set an example for whoever is playing with me or around me. I like taking responsibilities. That is my natural thing.

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.

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.

Example is leadership.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

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

You know, you can only lead them from behind.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.

My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others‘ negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.

How can a president not be an actor?

The President’s post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.

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.

Leadership is influence.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

We can’t allow the world’s worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world’s worst weapons.

Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that’s what everybody needs to know.

Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.

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

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

I understand everybody in this country doesn’t agree with the decisions I’ve made. And I made some tough decisions. But people know where I stand.

I have a cult-like following because I exemplify what it is to be a human being.

Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn’t. Without my husband’s help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control.

I’ve had some ‚riotous excursions of the human spirit‘ alongside the young Sailors and Marines, and it’s time to leave the stage to the young leaders who got their rank the old-fashioned way – they earned their stripes in combat.

We can succeed only by concert. It is not, ‚Can any of us imagine better,‘ but, ‚Can we all do better?‘

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

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

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

If I can be a leader, I will.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class.

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

There is something about building up a comradeship – that I still believe is the greatest of all feats – and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It’s the intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got. It’s really a very pleasant sensation.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

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

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

I like to have fun all the time, even if I’m working.

President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many times and places around the world, and have failed time and again.

Being prime minister is a lonely job… you cannot lead from the crowd.

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.

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

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today – and in fact we have forgotten.