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.

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

Trust is central to an economy that works.

I don’t like people going behind my back.

Never trust any complicated cocktail that remains perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

It’s very rare that you get a director that lets you be creative and bring what you feel your character should do or should be.

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.

I have a good team. It’s good to have a good team.

I don’t know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community.

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

When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from – and with – each other.

If I had chosen the populist course, it would have been a breach of the trust placed in me by the people.

God always takes the simplest way.

Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

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.

God’s got you in the palm of His hand. You won’t leave one second before your time. If God wants you to be here, then you’re going to be here.

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

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

For more than a decade, I led an organization that put on an elaborate Christmas program each December. It was a big production, with over 250 people participating in more than 20 performances. By the end of the season, everyone who participated was exhausted.

I’ve been so blessed to play for the greatest coach at a time when our organization has done incredible things. I’ve played with the best teammates. Playing for Mr. Kraft and what his influence on the team has been.

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

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

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

Through the right people focusing on the right things, we can, in time, get on top of a lot if not most of the problems of this world. And that’s what a number of us are trying to do.

We want to make it so that anyone, anywhere – a child growing up in rural India who never had a computer – can go to a store, get a phone, get online, and get access to all of the same things that you and I appreciate about the Internet.

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.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?

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

There are definitely designers that I love, people I love to work with. And who they are as people matters. Are they good people? Do they treat their staff well? Do they treat my staff well? Are they young? Can I give them a boost? But when all of that is equal… is it cute?

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.

There’s plenty about God that I don’t understand and can’t explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He’s for us.

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.

My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others‘ negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

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

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.

I have surrounded myself with very smart people.

I was approached about having my own network many, many years ago. There were some people who wanted to start up a network, and I didn’t want to get that involved in the business aspect of it.

You know, you can only lead them from behind.

He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

I fully understand the expectations of the state governments. Thus, I am better placed to work closely with the chief ministers.

The ‚public‘ scares me, but people I trust.

A company is a group organized to create a product or service, and it is only as good as its people and how excited they are about creating. I do want to recognize a ton of super-talented people. I just happen to be the face of the companies.

Better a broken promise than none at all.

The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don’t forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.

Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.

If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.

To some extent I happily don’t know what I’m doing. I feel that it’s an artist’s responsibility to trust that.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

I’m trying my best to keep up with all this new technology, and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.

Acting is just a process of relaxation, actually. Knowing the text so well and trusting that the instinct and the subconscious mind, whatever you want to call it, is going to take over.

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.

I have always believed in evolving a consensus before taking any major decision.