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

I’m definitely gaining new fans, and that’s the key of any success… gain more love.

Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It’s the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.

My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.

You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that’s the one thing people can’t take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment.

Look, when you’re the president, there’s all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it’s just the nature of the job.

I loved being Secretary of State, that’s probably evident to everyone who watched me.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

The movie business is a big gamble.

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.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

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

It sure is hell to be president.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

My authoritarian and quick manner of making decisions led me to have serious problems and to be accused of being ultraconservative. I have never been a right-winger. It was my authoritarian way of making decisions that created problems.

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn’t sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours‘ writing. Nothing.

And I think it’s that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

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

Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I’ll show you a poorly uniformed leader.

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

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.

If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.

It’s safe to say headphones is a good business.

It’s important that we invest in America – literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can’t let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another.

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

I think business has to be stupider. I want to do really straightforward, stupid business – just talk to me like a 4-year-old. And I refuse to negotiate. I do not negotiate. I can collaborate. But I’m an artist, so as soon as you negotiate, you’re being compromised.

Change in all things is sweet.

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

When I jumped off a roof in Cannes in a bee costume, I looked ridiculous. But this is my business; I have to humiliate myself.

Everybody has done something that we wish we didn’t say or do and wish we could take it back.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

I don’t think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don’t think they know how to run a trailer park.

If one has the answers to all the questions – that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble.

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.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

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.

The government’s job is good governance for everybody. My government will make policies; if you fit into it, come on board, or stay where you are. My job is not to spoon-feed anyone.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty… it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

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

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

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

Occasionally, I hanker for the time when I sold more records, but I don’t sit and drool about it. When I do look at early footage of Talking Heads, I realise I was just a wreck.

But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing.

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

I’m no leader; I’m a little humble follower.

I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

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

I’m not a one-man show. I was never that in my life, and I never want to be that.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.