Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was that they didn’t get that. No joke – I’d leave meetings crying all the time.

An ignorant person is one who doesn’t know what you have just found out.

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone – and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward.

The British people know that, given strong leadership, time, and a little bit of hope, the forces of good ultimately rally and triumph over evil.

With tech companies, whoever’s the leader is always questioned, you know. They say, ‚Is this the end of them?‘ And – there’s more – more times people think that’s the case than it really is the case.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

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 try to live what I teach. A lot of things come against us in life, but we should try to find something to be grateful for, and see each day as a gift.

When you’re coming up with new material, it’s not always gonna be good. The only way to learn is for it not to get a laugh, so you can adjust it and come back the next day to see if it’s working right. Next time, you might get a different laugh. You’re constantly rebuilding.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

I am confident that when the facts and policies have been examined, when the record of performances have been reviewed, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will once again be elected to lead our beloved country to a better future.

Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he be free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

Back in the day, what motivated me was overcoming myself. Now I believe in being a leader. I’ve done it all – I’m good. Now, it’s about setting an example for others to follow. I can’t just talk it – I have to live it.

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.

There’s definitely going to be things that I’m not very good at, things I can improve.

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.

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.

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don’t have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven’t had that fear.

I’m just an individual who doesn’t feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I’m working for me.

I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader – or any person – in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.

They say somebody’s ‚street smart.‘ I feel like, if I got intelligence, it’s just a country smart.

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

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

I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There ain’t much credit in that.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Just as discipline and freedom are opposing forces that must be balanced, leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities between one extreme and another.

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.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

Don’t ever play yourself.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

A lot of the stuff I do in terms of PR, I learned it from Muhammad Ali.

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

I like to be in control of how I look and how I feel and how I act.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

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

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

I just want people to be the best thems and live the happiest lives possible.

Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I’m doing, I always tell myself, ‚You can do better than this.‘

You learn a lot in life but there are a lot of tools and resources in school that help you grow professionally and personally for whatever goal you may want to achieve.

Fit no stereotypes. Don’t chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team’s mission.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves – you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.