You can’t have a value structure without a hierarchy. They’re the same thing because a value structure means one thing takes precedence over another.

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.

A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

When you’re 40, you can’t ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.

No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.

Once I’ve decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottage princes‘ palaces.

I thank God I’m in a position where I can pick and choose – there are some roles I don’t play.

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

We do need women in civic life. We do need women to run for office, to be in political office. We need a feminist to be at the table when decisions are being made so that the right decisions will be made.

Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you’ve started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can’t get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?

When I get logical, and I don’t trust my instincts – that’s when I get in trouble.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

Finality is not the language of politics.

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.

The government’s job is good governance for everybody. My government will make policies; if you fit into it, come on board, or stay where you are. My job is not to spoon-feed anyone.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

As I have done in every election since I started voting so many years ago, I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision.

The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

I only change things where I know about a situation. I’d never change just for change.

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.

I want the politicians to prioritise the climate question, focus on the climate and treat it like a crisis.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

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

All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.

Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

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.

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

The biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too much on HTML5.

If an idea isn’t exciting, you shouldn’t do it.

We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.

I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn’t going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I’ve ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn’t want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.

When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.

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.

To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.

Sin, also for those who don’t have faith, exists when one goes against one’s conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

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 I’m in management meetings when we’re deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I’m the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That’s the part of my life where I feel most in control.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.