Fit no stereotypes. Don’t chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team’s mission.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

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

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

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

The British people know that, given strong leadership, time, and a little bit of hope, the forces of good ultimately rally and triumph over evil.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

Instead of being critical of people in authority over you and envious of their position, be happy you’re not responsible for everything they have to do. Instead of piling on complaints, thank them for what they do. Overwhelm them with encouragement and appreciation!

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life. And when I think about the kind of president that I want for my girls and all our children, that’s what I want.

One must change one’s tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one’s superiority.

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.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

Hillary doesn’t play. She has more experience and exposure to the presidency than any candidate in our lifetime – yes, more than Barack, more than Bill. So she is absolutely ready to be Commander-in-Chief on day one. And, yes, she happens to be a woman.

President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many times and places around the world, and have failed time and again.

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.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

My favourite president, and the one I admired most, was Harry Truman.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else’s affairs.

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today – and in fact we have forgotten.

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

A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.

I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

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

I adapt and I adjust to whatever environment I’m in.

The President is always abused. If he isn’t, he isn’t doing anything.

A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.

The President’s post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

I don’t need a successor, only willing hands to accept the torch for a new generation.

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

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.

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

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that’s what everybody needs to know.

When it comes to the health of our families, Barack refused to listen to all those folks who told him to leave health reform for another day, another president. He didn’t care whether it was the easy thing to do politically – that’s not how he was raised – he cared that it was the right thing to do.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

A President cannot always be popular.

Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues – of my comrades in the movement – who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me.

You know I vowed when I became President not to talk about the loneliest toughest job in the world and I didn’t.

My game is really played above time. I don’t say that like I’m saying I’m ahead of my time. I’m saying, like, if I’m on the court and I throw a pass, the ball that I’ve thrown will lead my teammate right where he needs to go, before he even knows that that’s the right place to go to.

The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

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.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

I don’t mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

This country is being managed to death, being public related to death.

Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.

If one has the answers to all the questions – that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

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