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

If we could just find out who’s in charge, we could kill him.

I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason – to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement.

I began playing Monopoly for real when I was 26 years old. Today, my wife and I have approximately 1,400 little green houses – each paying us monthly. You do not have to be a rocket scientist or have a Harvard degree to play Monopoly for real.

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

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!

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.

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.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

I’m pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people’s bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

I like playing for the purple and gold. This is where I want to finish up.

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

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.

From a young age, I learned to focus on the things I was good at and delegate to others what I was not good at. That’s how Virgin is run. Fantastic people throughout the Virgin Group run our businesses, allowing me to think creatively and strategically.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

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

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‚Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?‘ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.

I’m not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I’m doing. So if I’m playing basketball, if I’m taking the SATs, like, there’s a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it’s the same thing.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

The female loves to play man against man. And if she is in a position to do it, there is not one who will resist.

When I step forward on the floor, I have the confidence that I’m the best player playing that night and that I am the most prepared at what I need to be doing.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

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.

When we have the ball, the other team has to run. The most important thing is for the players to be prepared to be a little bit wild.

Some people will have to be afraid. Those who plunder the nation, deliver injustice, will have to feel scared of me. And I am not afraid of admitting this. Government cannot be so lenient that it forgives them.

One of my direct subordinates, one of my guys that worked for me, he would call me up or pull me aside with some major problem, some issue that was going on. And he’d say, ‚Boss, we’ve got this, and that, and the other thing.‘ And I’d look at him and I’d say, ‚Good.‘

It constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis. Without them, the changes would be impossible.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It’s a lesson I’ve had to relearn quite a few times.

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.

We’re not a fragile people. We’re not a frightful people. Our power doesn’t come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don’t look to be ruled.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

You’ve all seen over the last eight years what President Obama means to this country. He is the embodiment of honor, resolve, and character – one of the finest presidents we have ever had.

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

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

The capability of negotiating… is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.

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.

The onus is on the managers to send out an attacking formation and to tell their players to be bold.

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

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

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.

Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.

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

Having the support from everyone, the bosses, whoever within the team, definitely makes it much easier for me as a driver.

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.

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

It’s plain hokum. If you can’t convince ‚em, confuse ‚em. It’s an old political trick. But this time it won’t work.