It’s been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: ‚I’m going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.‘ You’ve just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.

I’ve had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I’ve often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.

You’ve got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you’ve got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened – as if somebody was trying to demote them.

Everybody that’s successful lays a blueprint out.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

In order to rally people, governments need enemies… if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

I don’t think I’m an unlucky person.

I had noticed that many of these successful people, historical and contemporary, shared certain common traits. They had a way of thinking that was exceptionally fluid; they could adapt to almost any circumstance; when confronted with problems, they could look at them from novel perspectives and solve them.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high level, even the best product won’t make a company successful.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

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

I have something in common with Nazis in that I am opposed to the radical Left. And when you oppose the radical Left, you end up being a part of a much larger group that includes Nazis in it.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other.

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

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.

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

Our country was founded by geniuses, but it’s being run by idiots.

Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.

I’ve analyzed the best I can… and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else’s religion, but he’ll accept his gold.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

I’ve never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I’ve wanted the music to do that.

It’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.

I’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments‘ plans.

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

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.

I thought ‚Heller‘ was a very bad decision.

What I have in common with the character in ‚Truman‘ is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

It has not yet become obvious to me that there’s no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there’s no real problem, but I’m not sure there’s no real problem.

You can say that 2016 was my finest. It went well for the national team, started by winning the SAFF Cup, we reached the finals of AFC Cup, we reached the semis of ISL. I think it was a fruitful season.

Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.

I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.

The risk for me would be in not taking one – that’s the only thing that’s really risky for me.

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.

Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.

But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no.

Football is a team game and none can survive or excel without the help of the other.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

If somebody’s dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they’re going to have to take what they get.

It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

It sure is hell to be president.

One of the roles of the Presidency is to lead a political party. Having a President in office is usually a huge advantage to a party because it gives the party a mouthpiece and an advocate at the highest level.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.