Some people want to win races. Other people want to be President of the United States.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

Leadership is influence.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

We came up with TDE. As competitive as rap is, and as much as we’re trying to exceed the standards we set for ourselves, we take their wins as our wins, too.

Never neglect details. When everyone’s mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.

To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, ‚You’re better than the Cassius of old.‘

I’m the only president you’ve got.

When I was 8 years old, I saw ‚Raiders of the Lost Ark‘ in Charlotte, North Carolina. I walked out of there and was so inspired. I loved the movie, and I knew I wanted to be that guy.

March is a month without mercy for rabid basketball fans. There is no such thing as a ‚gentleman gambler‘ when the Big Dance rolls around. All sheep will be fleeced, all fools will be punished severely… There are no Rules when the deal goes down in the final weeks of March. Even your good friends will turn into monsters.

I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way – I hope it never will.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

My drive is other people’s success.

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

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.

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

Every successful businessman will have experienced set-backs and failures – they’re lying if they say they haven’t. Virgin has had some tremendously successful businesses and some that have not quite worked out. Virgin Cola springs to mind – the product wasn’t distinct enough from Coca-Cola.

He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.

Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they’re in another country.

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

Domination and monopoly is the name of the game in the web marketplace.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you’re always threatened by certain… You’re always threatened by other women, period.

Like getting into a bleeding competition with a blood bank.

Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.

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

You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

If we could just find out who’s in charge, we could kill him.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

It’s life isn’t it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

Don’t be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere as long as the policy you’ve decided upon is being carried out.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.

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

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.

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

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

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

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.

My measure of success is whether I’m fulfilling my mission.

I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.

Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.

I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

There were the questions of what kind of First Lady I would be, what issues would I focus on. Those were the questions that were being pounded on me through the campaign. A lot of times, I wondered what in the world Barack was even getting us into.

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else – I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

If I’m going to get you to do stuff, I need to lead you. I can’t just order you to do it.