Now from a distance, I look back on what the Corps taught me: to think like men of action, and to act like men of thought!

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.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

When the players go home, I can’t tell them what to do, so you need to create an atmosphere of trust. I don’t want to think, ‚What are they doing now? Do I need to call them?‘

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

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don’t have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

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 want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

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

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.

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

I don’t mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

To all the positions, I just bring the determination to win. Me being an unselfish player, I think that can carry on to my teammates. When you have one of the best players on the court being unselfish, I think that transfers to the other players.

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

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.

The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

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

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.

The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive.

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

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

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it – oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.

When you’re around the kids, you feel like you act the most grown up just because you’re supposed to lead. I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

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

If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.

A President’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

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.

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

If you call yourself a leader, then you have to be decisive. If you’re decisive, then you have the chance to be a leader. These are two sides to the same coin.

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.

Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn’t mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you’ve forgotten high school.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

From a young age, I learned to focus on the things I was good at and delegate to others what I was not good at. That’s how Virgin is run. Fantastic people throughout the Virgin Group run our businesses, allowing me to think creatively and strategically.

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

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.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

So, for example, a country was into recession right after I was sworn in, a dot-com bust had taken place. Then the attacks of September the 11th, and then of course the great financial meltdown in the -the fundamental question facing any presidency is how do you deal with the hand you’re dealt?

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

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.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

I’m not trying to get myself up a notch on the ladder by shoving somebody else down on the ladder, whether it’s a candidate or the president of the United States or anybody else. I just don’t believe that’s the way one oughta campaign, I’ve never done that.

After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.

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

Saudi Arabia has allowed training on its soil of American forces.

The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America. He must guide his conduct by the idealism of our people.

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

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.

If you want to occupy the C-suite or the top one-tenth of 1% in any organization, you have to be obsessively devoted to your career at the expense of everything else. And women look at that, and they think, ‚No.‘

I’m no longer just a candidate. I’m the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn’t return. I’ve shared the pain of families who’ve lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who’ve lost their jobs.