Steve Jobs‘ ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things.

I’m an expert typist. I learned in high school. I would close my eyes and just type without worrying about mistakes. I tried to penetrate my heart, and as I let my thoughts drift, things bubbled up to the surface.

Of all the things I’ve done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can’t really explain – let’s just say it’s all I can really do while I’m doing it.

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

We were told our campaign wasn’t sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.

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

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

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

We must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

It’s OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don’t want them to catch up because we’re slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse.

Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.

As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

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?‘

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

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

It’s amazing, the culture Coach Belichick has been able to create in our system.

I just think it is important that you realize, that you’re the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you’re libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

Here in the West, people often don’t like listening to their leaders, even if they are right.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

We don’t believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans.

Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Ever since Israel has been a nation the United States has provided the leadership. Every president down to the ages has done this in a fairly balanced way, including George Bush senior, Gerald Ford, and others including myself and Bill Clinton.

When I took over as president, I studied the Constitution, and the more I studied it, the more I realised that it does not prevent the president of India from giving the nation a vision. So when I went and presented this vision in Parliament and in legislative assemblies; everyone welcomed it, irrespective of party affiliations.

Everywhere I go I find that people… both leaders and individuals… are asking one basic question, ‚Is there any hope for the future?‘ My answer is the same, ‚Yes, through Jesus Christ.‘

He who has great power should use it lightly.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

Listen, I think that people want a president who is going to be interested in the things that keep them up at night, the things that are weighing on them, the things that are debilitating and can be addressed.

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.

All of us are mentors. You’re mentors right here and now. And one of the things I’ve always done throughout my life, I have always found that person, that group of people that I was going to reach my hand out and help bring them along with me.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton both had exceptional natural abilities. Nelson Rockefeller was very good statewide but never gained national traction.

Computers make me totally blank out.

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it’s egotism.

You know I vowed when I became President not to talk about the loneliest toughest job in the world and I didn’t.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.

Anybody who tells you that a two-day conference, you’re going to turn into the General Patton of leadership, they’re not telling you the truth. But you can learn the fundamentals; you can absolutely understand the fundamentals.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

I think I’d be a better president because I was in combat.

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

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

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.

I believe in Coach Louis Wong. He is so much more than just a football coach.

I don’t create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.

How can we help President Obama?

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.

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.

A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it’s been tested by recession and all manner of challenges – I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.

No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.

In business, if you realize you’ve made a bad decision, you change it.

If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn’t have to advertise them.