It’s OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don’t want them to catch up because we’re slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse.

I am sure as everyone knows that I am not the happiest if I don’t do a good job in qualifying or the race.

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.

Tesla is becoming a real car company.

Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, – till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.

It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.

I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters – two beautiful, intelligent black young women – playing with their dogs on the White House lawn. And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters, and all our sons and daughters, now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States.

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

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

Information, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enterprises, opportunities for women, conservation of natural resources, distributed clean energy – entirely new possibilities have emerged to change the development model.

We’re not a fragile people. We’re not a frightful people. Our power doesn’t come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don’t look to be ruled.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.

Every President wants to do right.

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.

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

We’ve always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways… It’s lasted now about 14 years, and we’re very pleased to have survived it.

My mother would kill me if I posed nude! My mother raised me with certain standards.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

The most genius thing about the way I create is to create with other geniuses.

I’m a pretty good winner. I’m a terrible loser. And I rub it in pretty good when I win.

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

We have to build the capacity of our institutions, employees and workers. Our regulatory environment has not been encouraging to research, innovation and enterprise.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren’t dependent on Washington doing something different.

Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration… that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who’s occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

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

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Once you get into space, you can really unleash a lot of creativity, but the launch itself? I have been through all of the creative ways, and believe me, chemical rockets are the best.

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

A good boxing competition gives one the sight of fine men in their prime, trained to the ounce, showing the highest skill, pluck and endurance in carrying out their attack and defence under strict rules of fair play and good temper.

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

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

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

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.

Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

I believe God wants you to have money to pay your bills, send your kids to college and do charity work and build orphanages. There’s the teaching that we’re supposed to be poor to show that we’re humble. I don’t buy that. I think we’re supposed to be leaders. We’re supposed to excel.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

The path to the CEO’s office should not be through the CFO’s office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

I just think overall there’s not as many female ministers than there are male ministers.