People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one’s self to destiny.

The events of October 1962 are widely hailed as Kennedy’s finest hour.

It’s no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

A conductor can’t be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.

You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

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

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

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.

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.

If you don’t have the time to read, you don’t have the time or the tools to write.

A master performer like Bill Clinton never lost sight of the fact that as president he had to project confidence and power, but if he was speaking to a group of autoworkers he would adjust his accent and his words to fit the audience, and do the same for a group of executives.

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That’s not a guess, it’s a guarantee. With pride, it’s not a matter of ‚if‘ we will fall, but ‚when.‘ There are no exceptions.

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.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

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.

Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

I think our democracy has it exactly right: two terms, eight years. It’s enough. Because it’s important to have one foot in reality when you have access to this kind of power.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don’t work. When you clean your house, you don’t get tired; it gives you satisfaction.

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.

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

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration… that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who’s occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

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

The Scoutmaster who is a hero to his boys holds a powerful lever to their development but at the same time brings a great responsibility on himself. They are quick enough to see the smallest characteristic about him, whether it be a virtue or a vice.

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you’re held responsible for everything, but you don’t always have control of everything, right?

Being prime minister is a lonely job… you cannot lead from the crowd.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live and could not spare any more time for that one.

The biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too much on HTML5.

Before I became a chief minister, I never thought that one day I’d be the chief minister.

I didn’t work hard to sit down and not work.

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.

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

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top – I’m afraid that’s not quite right.

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.

I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.

As is the case with most people in this game, I am driven by financial motives and creative motives; the question I had to answer is which motive I will give priority to?

Never neglect details. When everyone’s mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason – to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement.