When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

I hate letting my teammates down. I know I’m not going to make every shot. Sometimes I try to make the right play, and if it results in a loss, I feel awful. I don’t feel awful because I have to answer questions about it. I feel awful in that locker room because I could have done something more to help my teammates win.

Being prime minister is a lonely job… you cannot lead from the crowd.

I have to write because if I don’t get something down then after a while I feel it’s going to bang the side of my head off.

And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.

We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn’t make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we – we own this country. We – we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

Sadly, the truth is, there aren’t many people who can be put in high positions who won’t start thinking highly of themselves.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can’t it get us out?

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don’t.

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

‚Your Erroneous Zones’ was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.

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

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

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.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It’s best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

My career as Nipsey Hussle is based on my life as Ermias Asghedom.

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

See, winners embrace hard work.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

You can’t be afraid to fail. It’s the only way you succeed – you’re not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren’t proud of what you’re doing, why should anybody else be?

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

For victory in life, we’ve got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

It’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren’t doing.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

In war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash.

Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don’t forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

A conductor can’t be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

It’s a common misconception that money is every entrepreneur’s metric for success. It’s not, and nor should it be.

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many times and places around the world, and have failed time and again.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That’s just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.

I’ve been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.