The leaders come up from the volunteers that do the work, and it’s amazing because then they do these incredible things in their community that they never thought they had the power to make that happen.

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don’t have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world.

I did my utmost to ensure that everyone below me in the chain of command felt comfortable approaching me with concerns, ideas, thoughts, and even disagreements.

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.

I don’t think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

One man with courage is a majority.

I can move any crowd.

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.

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.

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

I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know the Obama administration wants to do around the urgency of climate change.

I love that we can trust Barack to do what he says he’s going to do, even when it’s hard – especially when it’s hard.

Just as discipline and freedom are opposing forces that must be balanced, leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities between one extreme and another.

Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

You think that the heads of state only have serious conversations, but they actually often begin really with the weather or, ‚I really like your tie.‘

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.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive.

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

The best leaders understand the motivations of their team members and know their people – their lives and their families. But a leader must never grow so close to subordinates that one member of the team becomes more important than another, or more important than the mission itself.

When you’re in a leadership role, you can never please all of the people all of the time. There’s also a lot of responsibility that goes along with it that others may not realize.

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

People and organizations don’t grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

I’ve seen how the issues that come across a president’s desk are always the hard ones – the problems where no amount of data or numbers will get you to the right answer.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

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

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

When Hillary was First Lady, we went to the Beijing Women’s Conference. She courageously stood up and spoke out on behalf of human rights and women’s rights, inspiring millions to fight for a better future.

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

Now from a distance, I look back on what the Corps taught me: to think like men of action, and to act like men of thought!

If you continue to keep low performers on your team, that are actually dragging the team down; you’re failing the whole team, and eventually, the whole team is going to fail.

To some degree it matters who’s in office, but it matters more how much pressure they’re under from the public.

It’s one of the few regrets of my presidency – that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better. There’s no doubt a president with the gifts of Lincoln or Roosevelt might have better bridged the divide, and I guarantee I’ll keep trying to be better so long as I hold this office.

I am confident that when the facts and policies have been examined, when the record of performances have been reviewed, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will once again be elected to lead our beloved country to a better future.

I remember the last three days that I was president, I never went to bed at all. I never went to bed until we had negotiated the final release of the hostages.

There’s a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people.

All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.

We need an adult in the White House. When making life-or-death, war-or-peace decisions, a president can’t just pop off or lash out irrationally.

By most accounts, Aristide is the most popular figure in Haiti.

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be… The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

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

A director makes 100 decisions an hour. Students ask me how you know how to make the right decision, and I say to them, ‚If you don’t know how to make the right decision, you’re not a director.‘

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.

I think I was identified as a failed president because I wasn’t re-elected.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.