Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.
It isn't enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflect this anger back into, 'How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?'
Just hit my 75th birthday, I'm feeling great!
Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.
Get mad, then get over it.
Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission.
I think whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.
Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.
Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
A dream doesn't become reality through magic it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.
In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be mov...
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
Hope is not a strategy
I don't know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community.
90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.