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

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn’t white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.

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

The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense.

I’ve seen firsthand that being president doesn’t change who you are. It reveals who you are.

With tech companies, whoever’s the leader is always questioned, you know. They say, ‚Is this the end of them?‘ And – there’s more – more times people think that’s the case than it really is the case.

You can play fast but not in a hurry. As a point guard, I can dictate that.

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

All leaders in the Lord’s Church are called by proper authority. No prophet or any other leader in this Church, for that matter, has ever called himself or herself. No prophet has ever been elected.

To me, a leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes. And so what I think is really important is sustainability.

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don’t see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.

I loved being Secretary of State, that’s probably evident to everyone who watched me.

If you want to reach the top, don’t run over others. Likely, the only way you’ll reach the top is to be carried there by others.

The time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to promote polarizing attitudes and actions that are counterproductive for minorities and disastrous for the country.

I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.

Sexism is part of every industry and must be addressed. But I try not to focus on the negative but the positive side of what we can bring.

To understand Europe, you have to be a genius – or French.

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.

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.

I have observed that society in general always seems to honor its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument… an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.

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

Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

Remember that the essence of authority is that people willingly follow your lead.

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

Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

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.

It was really hard for them to intimidate me. They felt I was intimidating. One of the growers had a name for me: I think it was ‚dragon lady‘ or something like it.

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives‘ mouths.

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

One of the roles of the Presidency is to lead a political party. Having a President in office is usually a huge advantage to a party because it gives the party a mouthpiece and an advocate at the highest level.

Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.

I understand everybody in this country doesn’t agree with the decisions I’ve made. And I made some tough decisions. But people know where I stand.

Why do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to.

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

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

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

I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone – and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward.

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar… Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

I know it’s going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we’re in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.

When I was growing up, there were no women in orchestras. Auditioners thought they could tell the difference between a woman playing and a man. Some intelligent person devised a simple solution: Drop a curtain between the auditioners and the people trying out. And, lo and behold, women began to get jobs in symphony orchestras.

I’m responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.

Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

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.

To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

It’s a well-known fact that tall people are evil.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

I’m asking myself, ‚What do my girls, what do all our children deserve in their president? What kind of a president do we want for them?‘ Well, to start with, I think we want someone who is a unifying force in this country: someone who sees our differences not as a threat, but as a blessing.