Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

People invest in businesses that they believe have the leadership, mission and team to grow and operate profitably.

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world’s strongest economy.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

For me, it’s enough that I have the first and last word.

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.

I love women with attitude.

We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

If I don’t run for president, we’ll all be OK.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

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

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

I’ve got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I’ve done it.

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.

No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.

When you’re one of the leaders of the team, there are no days off.

Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people – and to hate those other people.

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it’s egotism.

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.

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

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it… You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

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.

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won’t have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

I promise you, I will have something on the Internet that is game-changing. I can’t lose.

I’m confident with my ability.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

I realized why directors are such horrible people – in a way – because you want things to be right, and people will just not listen to you, and there is no time to be nice to people, no time to be delicate.

I’m of the school of thought where if you can’t sort something out for yourself then no one can help you.

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

The only thing I know is I ain’t changing my brand. I know what I believe. I’m confident in what I know. And I’m gonna say it. And if folks like it, wonderful. If they don’t like it, I understand.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

All of us are mentors. You’re mentors right here and now. And one of the things I’ve always done throughout my life, I have always found that person, that group of people that I was going to reach my hand out and help bring them along with me.

My game is really played above time. I don’t say that like I’m saying I’m ahead of my time. I’m saying, like, if I’m on the court and I throw a pass, the ball that I’ve thrown will lead my teammate right where he needs to go, before he even knows that that’s the right place to go to.

We named the book ‚Extreme Ownership‘ because we really found that when we looked at not only at leaders but at teams that were the most successful, we found that the ones that had this attitude of extreme ownership were the ones that did the best, and it’s definitely an attitude that I had.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the people who are on the front line.

I don’t fear anybody… at all.

The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you’re wrinkled.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know the Obama administration wants to do around the urgency of climate change.

I’m committed to the people of Gujarat. I will devote each and every moment to serve my people of Gujarat.