People invest in businesses that they believe have the leadership, mission and team to grow and operate profitably.

I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn’t have the recognition that I have now.

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.

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

When you want a thing done, ‚Don’t do it yourself‘ is a good motto for Scoutmasters.

Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I’ve changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Our whole life is set up in the path of least resistance. We don’t want to suffer. We don’t want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we’re living our lives in a very comfortable area. There’s no growth in that.

For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.

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.

I love that we can trust Barack to do what he says he’s going to do, even when it’s hard – especially when it’s hard.

I’m committed to the people of Gujarat. I will devote each and every moment to serve my people of Gujarat.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

I don’t run restaurants that are out of control. We are about establishing phenomenal footholdings with talent.

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there’s nothing really to talk about.

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.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

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.

Friend, there’s no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.

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

The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument… an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.

I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Throughout my years in business, I discovered something. I would always ask why you do things. The answers that I would invariably get are: ‚Oh, that’s just the way things are done around here.‘ Nobody knows why they do what they do. Nobody thinks very deeply about things in business.

Here in the West, people often don’t like listening to their leaders, even if they are right.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

If you or I fail at business, we fail. If we cheat and fail, we go to jail. But if you’re rich and politically connected, your incompetence may be protected by a government bailout.

I’m a real estate guy.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

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

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents‘ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven’t exactly been non-aggressive – including me.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

There is no education like adversity.

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.

Just as discipline and freedom are opposing forces that must be balanced, leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities between one extreme and another.

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

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.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the ‚leaders‘ must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

Policy makers who have never served in the military continue to use the military to lead social change in this country.

Competitions are a business, first and foremost.

Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

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.

I’m the president of the United States. I’m not the emperor of the United States.

I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader – or any person – in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.

Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.