Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

If you’re competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.

We’re constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

Well begun is half done.

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

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

Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That’s not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That’s not leadership. That’s abandoning our middle class.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

There’s different kinds of laughs. It’s like a baseball lineup: this guy’s your power hitter, this guy gets on base, this guy works out walks. If everybody does their job, we’re gonna win.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

I don’t think consensus-building politics is what I’m meant to be doing.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

We wind a simple ring of iron with coils; we establish the connections to the generator, and with wonder and delight we note the effects of strange forces which we bring into play, which allow us to transform, to transmit and direct energy at will.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

People who add value to others do so intentionally. I say that because to add value, leaders must give of themselves, and that rarely occurs by accident.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

Bayern want a decade of success like Barca. That’s OK if you have the money because it increases the possibility of success. But it’s not guaranteed.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

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.

I think that technology is always invented for historical reasons, to solve a historical problem. But they very soon reveal themselves to be capable of doing things that aren’t historical that nobody had ever thought of doing before.

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I’m sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don’t even know when you’re being compromised till after the fact, and that’s what you regret.

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

When people protest and are upset with a movie, it becomes a big hit. They hated Passion of The Christ, it worked out pretty well for the box office. So let’s get that going.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

Tesla is here to stay and keep fighting for the electric car revolution.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

No other country in the world does what we do. On every issue, the world turns to us, not simply because of the size of our economy or our military might – but because of the ideals we stand for, and the burdens we bear to advance them.

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.

You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.

Japan’s very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don’t think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that’s already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.

I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn’t matter if you’re a Democrat or a Republican, young or old.

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.

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

My songs are the door to every dream I’ve ever had and every success I’ve ever achieved.

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.

There is no substitute for victory.

Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.

Dream and you shall become.

I’m glad I’m not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone’s tape recording what you say.

I’m the only president you’ve got.

I don’t see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, ‚I’ma do that,‘ and they do it. That’s it. There’s no scientifical process.

I’ve made money, and I’ve been ripped off. I’ve had creative freedom, and I’ve been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will.

I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you’ll be able to see farther.

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

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.