Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high level, even the best product won’t make a company successful.

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

It’s not essential for me to have a big debut week; it’s not essential for me to have big radio records.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

I like the city. I like the concrete. I like big business. I like being a CEO of my own company and having a lot of responsibilities. At the same time, when I can go off with a backpack or off on a surfboard or even off on a run somewhere in the woods – that’s where I’m really happy.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.

And winning is a huge thing for me.

It feels good being a restaurant owner because it’s part of my dreams of being the biggest mogul.

I don’t like to see a president who is just out campaigning all year long or for the last four years. I’d like to see somebody who’s going in the office. In fact, I’d like to not see them because that way you’d be sure that they’d be working.

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn’t controversial, that means he never stood for anything.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

We was able to become real successful in the mixtape space.

I think I’d be a better president because I was in combat.

The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it’s a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.

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.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

I’m filthy rich!

I’ve found that men I’ve dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I’ve found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren’t competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been… challenging.

The best leaders understand the motivations of their team members and know their people – their lives and their families. But a leader must never grow so close to subordinates that one member of the team becomes more important than another, or more important than the mission itself.

I just think it is important that you realize, that you’re the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you’re libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

Giving responsibility is the key to success with boys, especially with the rowdiest and most difficult boys.

There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don’t usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp.

I can’t keep somebody from being a star, and I can’t make somebody a star, and nobody can.

If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

We also can’t try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That’s not leadership; that’s a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It’s the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq – and we should have learned it by now.

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.

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

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

The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

No great thing is created suddenly.

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man’s pride in his work.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

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

To make headway, improve your head.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

I’m more than comfortable just sitting back and scoring 21, 22 points or whatever and getting 10, 11 assists whatever the case might be. More than comfortable with that. It’s just a matter of the pieces that you have around you and what you can do to elevate everybody else.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

Everywhere I go I find that people… both leaders and individuals… are asking one basic question, ‚Is there any hope for the future?‘ My answer is the same, ‚Yes, through Jesus Christ.‘

Whoever won’t fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.

The most successful detectives owe their success to noticing small signs. Scouts are natural detectives and never let the smallest detail escape them. These small things are called by Scouts ‚Sign.‘

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

A President cannot always be popular.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

The movie business is a big gamble.

Outsourcing is inevitable, and I don’t think it’s necessarily treating people like things.

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.