“The freedom to do your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best.”

Have a sense of humor to break the tension in times of great toil.

The best way to create a winning team is to train them, give them everything they need to get the job done and second, make sure they know what the job is and what the job will be. So you connect strategy to resources.

You should never be so involved with your position/job that when the position is gone your entire self image is gone with it.

Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.

Leaders have followers. The primary role of a leader is to convey to those followers a sense of purpose, vision, and mission.

Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity.

Get mad, then get over it.

Leaders honor their core values, but they are flexible in how they execute them.

The greatest gifts my parents gave to me were their unconditional love and a set of values.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

You can’t make someone else’s choices. You shouldn’t let someone else make yours.

We are not going to dwell on those things that divide us. We are going to rejoice in those things that keep us together to make this a better country – to reach down and back to touch every young person in need!

Trust is the essence of Leadership.

Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.

I want to see policies that encourage every American to vote, not make it more difficult to vote.

You don’t know what you can get away with until you try.

I’m out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I’m still playing.

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

I will do my best to reduce the price of oil to expand the life span of oil at least for two decades or three decades.

I believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.

We don’t work like the best basketball player and the best musician and so on. Science is a collective effort.

Invest in basic research and recruit the best minds.

When they called me with the Nobel call from Secretary General of the Swedish Academy it was twenty minutes to six and he said well that was well hope I’m not disturbing you but I am the Secretary General of the Swedish Academy.

The best thing about Berlin was that I got to be surrounded by people who pursue their ideas for themselves.