Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.

My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

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.

Short cuts make long delays.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

I tend not to look back and dwell on a project once it is finished.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary – not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn’t want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.

Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

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

It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.

Outlook 2003 did create the idea of search folders and the whole Longhorn philosophy. You can see it at work in search folders, where instead of having to drop things into individual folders, and things exist only in one folder, you create these search folders and you have the criteria for the search folder.

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get – The Future!

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

I don’t do meetings.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.

Delay is preferable to error.

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.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

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

People are so caught in a routine, doing the same things over and over.

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

I have a cult-like following because I exemplify what it is to be a human being.

Discipline starts every day when the first alarm clock goes off in the morning. I say ‚first alarm clock‘ because I have three, as I was taught by one of the most feared and respected instructors in SEAL training: one electric, one battery powered, one windup.

The most important thing for a director is being able to communicate.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you’ll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity.

Since the team understands that the leader is de facto in charge, in that respect, a leader has nothing to prove. But in another respect, a leader has everything to prove: Every member of the team must develop the trust and confidence that their leader will exercise good judgment, remain calm, and make the right decisions when it matters most.

We need to have business leaders who live by deep, strong principles.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don’t have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.

I have always believed in evolving a consensus before taking any major decision.

When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn’t for you. It’s for the Presidency.

Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.

A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.

A President cannot always be popular.

I can tell you this: If I’m ever in a position to call the shots, I’m not going to rush to send somebody else’s kids into a war.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you’re in boom times.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

One man with courage is a majority.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

When it comes to the health of our families, Barack refused to listen to all those folks who told him to leave health reform for another day, another president. He didn’t care whether it was the easy thing to do politically – that’s not how he was raised – he cared that it was the right thing to do.

You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree’s fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down – bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds.

When the well is dry, they know the worth of water.