The amount of trust and bandwidth that you build up working with someone for five, seven, 10 years? It’s just awesome. I care about openness and connectedness in a global sense.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

You better take care of me Lord, if you don’t you’re gonna have me on your hands.

The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you’re making a mistake but let you go on with it, that’s when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

Trust, but verify.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

Obviously this song is an achievement for me in my career, but what makes me really feel good is to make Latinos feel proud. To provoke that pride that a pop figure and someone so big in music globally like Drake would sing with me completely in Spanish and create this hit ‚MIA.‘ That’s the best part of it.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.

If you like a person you say ‚let’s go into business together.‘ Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

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

I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.

The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you’re actually helping to make America stronger.

The arts don’t exist in isolation.

It’s not a faith in technology. It’s faith in people.

I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

Whenever our neighbour’s house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that I could control.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

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

We named the book ‚Extreme Ownership‘ because we really found that when we looked at not only at leaders but at teams that were the most successful, we found that the ones that had this attitude of extreme ownership were the ones that did the best, and it’s definitely an attitude that I had.

We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Working with a lot of people at the same time is a task. I really like making stuff and getting stuff done. One of the things I really liked about Facebook was that I could always move so quickly. I wrote the original application in, like, nine days at the end of January.

I first met Bev Shea while in Chicago when he was on Moody Radio. As a young man starting my ministry, I asked Bev if he would join me. He said yes, and for over 60 years we had the privilege of ministering together across the country and around the world.

Nobody’s indispensable.

The intention and outcome of vulnerability is trust, intimacy and connection. The outcome of oversharing is distrust, disconnection – and usually a little judgment.

Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.

You know, you can only lead them from behind.

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

Dividers seek to make themselves look or feel better by making others feel worse. They damage relationships, fracture teams and organizations, and create havoc in people’s lives.

When you have that respect from your teammates, it makes it a lot more comfortable.

Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion.

Football is a team game and none can survive or excel without the help of the other.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

And so I think that the idea of America working with other countries to solve problems is good for us, and it is part of digging us out of the ‚my way or the highway‘ approach that was evident in the previous eight years.

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

All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.

Trust is central to an economy that works.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

It’s nice when little teams win.

I worked with Steven Spielberg on Amistad… he seemed so very secure in himself that he let me do things.

I’m just telling you, God permits things in our lives sometimes for reasons that we do not understand yet because of the spiritual level that we’re on. We can’t have any understanding of it, because we’re not at a place of spiritual growth yet where we understand the deeper things of God.

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest – and everybody agreed rugby was. It’s a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level.

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 will naturally pursue our goals on the strength of our own resources, skills and enterprise. But, we know that we will be more successful when we do this in partnership with the world.

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

I’m a fighter, I’m a winner, and I’m not interested in just battling my team-mate for the back of the grid.

If I’m going to get you to do stuff, I need to lead you. I can’t just order you to do it.

If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would.

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