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

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

A great man is always willing to be little.

When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.

It’s very important to like the people you work with. Otherwise, your job is going to be quite miserable.

Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.

When Hillary was First Lady, we went to the Beijing Women’s Conference. She courageously stood up and spoke out on behalf of human rights and women’s rights, inspiring millions to fight for a better future.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life. And when I think about the kind of president that I want for my girls and all our children, that’s what I want.

Except for the title ‚father,‘ there is no title, including ‚vice president,‘ that I am more proud to wear than that of United States senator.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.

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

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

I am not saying I am the best manager in the world. But I’m quite good.

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

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won’t presume to probe into the faults of others.

We can’t allow the world’s worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world’s worst weapons.

I desire to press forward for direction to my Master in all things; but as to trusting to my own obedience and righteousness, I should be worse than a fool and ten times worse than a madman.

It’s nice when little teams win.

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class.

To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it’s digging deep, it’s doing whatever you need to do to help a team win and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms.

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

It’d be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren’t kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I’m not a baby sitter.

I wrote a song with Ed Sheeran that was kind of spontaneous.

The greatest progress is in the sciences that study the simplest systems. So take, say, physics – greatest progress there. But one of the reasons is that the physicists have an advantage that no other branch of sciences has. If something gets too complicated, they hand it to someone else.

The issues that cross a president’s desk are never easy. The easy questions don’t even get to the president.

After winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent.

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it’s the restaurant business.

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is ‚to be prepared‘.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life.

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

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

I love that for Barack, there is no such thing as ‚us‘ and ‚them‘ – he doesn’t care whether you’re a Democrat, a Republican, or none of the above… he knows that we all love our country… and he’s always ready to listen to good ideas… he’s always looking for the very best in everyone he meets.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.

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

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.

There was my name up in lights. I said, ‚God, somebody’s made a mistake.‘ But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, ‚Remember, you’re not a star.‘ Yet there it was up in lights.

But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we’ve been thinking about a problem.

I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

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.

The way people look at me these days – that’s the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who’ve attained a certain position are human.

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 a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I’m even afraid of it – it’s a learned affectation and it’s just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.

Do not be afraid to ask for help. Nobody gets through college on their own.

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.

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

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

To win is always good for the feeling of the whole team.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.