In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people – and to hate those other people.

A coach, especially at a college level – much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level – you’re more of a teacher than an actual coach.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

I just think you ought to talk straight with your people.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.

If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.

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.

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you’re flying high at first, but it won’t take long before you feel the impact.

As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.

The way people look at me these days – that’s the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who’ve attained a certain position are human.

No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

It sure is hell to be president.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

A leader who confines his role to his people’s experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people’s experience runs the risk of not being understood.

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you’re actually helping to make America stronger.

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

The path to the CEO’s office should not be through the CFO’s office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design.

The proper study of mankind is woman.

You don’t go to Notre Dame to learn something; you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.

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

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

One of the things that was really an issue was I did not want to just be a woman secretary of state. I wanted to be a secretary of a state who was a woman, but not just chosen for that particular reason.

The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

Because I know about the Holy Land, I’ve taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and – but you can’t bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.

I’ve never professed to be anything but an average student.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.

How can we help President Obama?

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

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

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment – my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.

Learn to think continentally.

The book you don’t read won’t help.

I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there’s no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.

What matters in the Sun-tzu universe are not positions of strength and power, but situations in which you have options, full of potential force.

Education is important because it prepares you for life.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

We still have many neighborhoods that are racially identified. We still have many schools that even though the days of state-enforced segregation are gone, segregation because of geographical boundaries remains.

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people’s trust in their government.

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

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

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.

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.

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

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

A company is a group organized to create a product or service, and it is only as good as its people and how excited they are about creating. I do want to recognize a ton of super-talented people. I just happen to be the face of the companies.

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

Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.

Our teachers deserve better feedback.