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

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

In business, if you realize you’ve made a bad decision, you change it.

Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‚Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?‘ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.

It takes more than capital to swing business. You’ve got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by – Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

The onus is on the managers to send out an attacking formation and to tell their players to be bold.

As commanders and staff officers, we are coaches and sentries for our units: how can we coach anything if we don’t know a hell of a lot more than just the TTPs?

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

I’m a cash flow guy. If it doesn’t make me money today, forget about it.

The earth’s crust has not yet stopped heaving and plunging under our feet. Mountain ranges are still being thrust up on the horizon. Granites are still growing under the continental masses. Nor has the organic world ceased to produce new buds at the tips of its countless branches.

The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.

People who add value to others do so intentionally. I say that because to add value, leaders must give of themselves, and that rarely occurs by accident.

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

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.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.

What I love best in life is new starts.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

We were born with a capacity to grow, love, marry, and form families.

Change in all things is sweet.

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

From my very first day as an entrepreneur, I’ve felt the only mission worth pursuing in business is to make people’s lives better.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.

I’m actually starting to like more and more people who have convictions that are unpopular.

As long as your intentions are solid and about growth and progression and being productive and not being idle, then you’re doing good in my book.

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.

I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don’t believe in the whole thing of just using other people’s money. I don’t think that’s right. I’m not going to ask other people to invest in something if I’m not prepared to do so myself.

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

When it comes to the qualifications that we should demand of our president, to start with, we need someone who will take the job seriously.

I’m not trying to get myself up a notch on the ladder by shoving somebody else down on the ladder, whether it’s a candidate or the president of the United States or anybody else. I just don’t believe that’s the way one oughta campaign, I’ve never done that.

It sure is hell to be president.

I’m definitely gaining new fans, and that’s the key of any success… gain more love.

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.

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.

It is unnecessary to say that Fidel Castro possesses the high qualities of a fighter and statesman: our path, our struggle, and our triumph we owed to his vision.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

As a precious metal, silver is also money.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

I love that for Barack, there is no such thing as ‚us‘ and ‚them‘ – he doesn’t care whether you’re a Democrat, a Republican, or none of the above… he knows that we all love our country… and he’s always ready to listen to good ideas… he’s always looking for the very best in everyone he meets.

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America’s debt.

Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.

It constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis. Without them, the changes would be impossible.

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.

I’m no leader; I’m a little humble follower.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.