I’m not a one-man show. I was never that in my life, and I never want to be that.

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they’ll do wonders. I count on them.

The authority you establish must emerge naturally from your character, from the particular strengths you possess.

I think sometimes the critics want me to beat people down, and that’s not in me. I want to lift people up.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

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.

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.

In cricket, my superhero is Sachin Tendulkar. He has always been my hero and will continue to remain so. Apart from him and outside cricket, my mother has remained my inspiration. Whatever difficult time I had faced, she was always there for me. She has given me all the strength. She maintained her composure and supported me in tough times.

Having the support from everyone, the bosses, whoever within the team, definitely makes it much easier for me as a driver.

There are people who want to make men’s lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.

I’m not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.

The best leaders understand the motivations of their team members and know their people – their lives and their families. But a leader must never grow so close to subordinates that one member of the team becomes more important than another, or more important than the mission itself.

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music.

What matters in the Sun-tzu universe are not positions of strength and power, but situations in which you have options, full of potential force.

She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.

Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it.

Being a Puerto Rican artist, I support all kinds of projects that are developed on my beautiful island that in some way or another put our Puerto Rican flag up.

If you ever go to a music session, you’ll notice that the musicians can sit down and start playing right away, and everyone knows what to do. Of course they’re reading it, but the conductor can tweak little things, and you can take that back to directing motion pictures.

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.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

It constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis. Without them, the changes would be impossible.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can’t run a state.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one’s soul.

There’s a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family.

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

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

It’s true my father abused me and didn’t love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.

God knows what we are going through when we grieve, and He wants to assure us of His love and concern. He also wants us to turn to Him and bring our heartaches and burdens to Him.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it – and sometimes three.

One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.

You don’t lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.

The fame isn’t important to me. It’s a blessing to have. Having so many people that support me, that love me and listen to my music, is beautiful.

Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn’t come alive until the leader models it.

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

Feeling like you’re respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.

I think I’d be a better president because I was in combat.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

I’ve thought sometimes about what I like about football, and it’s playing together.

Whoever won’t fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.

I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn’t. In fact, I didn’t even know you were supposed to have one.

For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood.

Rule number one is: Beat your team-mate.

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.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

A family looks for ways to support and inspire one another.

Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.