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

How can a president not be an actor?

As commanders and staff officers, we are coaches and sentries for our units: how can we coach anything if we don’t know a hell of a lot more than just the TTPs?

I can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America. But it doesn’t mean I won’t run.

We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.

Just as I wanted to outdo everyone when I played, I had to outdo everyone when we were out on the town.

I don’t mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

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

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn’t controversial, that means he never stood for anything.

I just don’t feel like I have to explain myself.

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

How easy it is to govern when one follows a system of consulting the will of the people and one holds as the only norm all the actions which contribute to the well being of the people.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don’t know you think.

A good model of how to ‚work with the enemy‘ internally is presented by the Dalai Lama, in his endless caretaking of his soul as he confronts the Chinese government that invaded Tibet.

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

I’m much more comfortable and confident running out on the field in front of 70,000 people instead of standing in front of a camera trying to say some lines. The people who do that as a profession are very talented because it’s certainly not easy.

I just feel so much more comfortable and confident every game I play.

I know it’s going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we’re in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.

I identify myself as a hustler since I was a young kid.

Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.

The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

It’s amazing, the culture Coach Belichick has been able to create in our system.

I’m a big perfectionist! I’m trying to channel super-confident women like Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey and Beyonce, because I realized that if you want something, you really have to go for it, just like they do.

I think our politicians could learn a lot from Mandela.

I don’t want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He’s a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

A master performer like Bill Clinton never lost sight of the fact that as president he had to project confidence and power, but if he was speaking to a group of autoworkers he would adjust his accent and his words to fit the audience, and do the same for a group of executives.

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

You just wait. I’m going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

Big results require big ambitions.

When I’m out on the football field, I have so much confidence in what I’m doing.

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

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

I don’t think I will ever be content. I am somebody who is always hungry.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

Some people want to win races. Other people want to be President of the United States.

Americans… still believe in an America where anything’s possible – they just don’t think their leaders do.

Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.

I don’t worry. I don’t doubt. I’m daring. I’m a rebel.

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

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

You do projects with the hope they will be big and hope they will go beyond what you imagine.

I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

The leaders come up from the volunteers that do the work, and it’s amazing because then they do these incredible things in their community that they never thought they had the power to make that happen.

In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‚we have a problem, let’s go and get it‘.

It sure is hell to be president.

Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.

I grew up around lots of men – my father, my brothers, my uncles – so I wasn’t intimidated by them.

My favourite president, and the one I admired most, was Harry Truman.

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.