Bill Clinton Quotes

I believe the more difficult the circumstances, the more people will be inclined to trust those in charge at the moment.

Men trust a great man because they do not trust themselves. And hence the worship of great men always appears in times of weakness and cowardice; we never hear of great men until the time when all other men are small.

If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.

Leadership is having the trust of the people are trying to lead.

I don't feel qualified to be President either, but I've got the job.

Don't know how much of an Alpha I am.

If you are insecure, then you can't be friends with anyone.

A leader who is confused or confusing causes too much anxiety, and a leader who is too controlling is revealing more insecurity and a lack of leadership.

Fear is trusting in your own power.

We deeply want to be led by people who know what they're doing and who don't have to think about it too much.

The dumber people are, the more they feel the need for a broad set of shoulders they can lay their head against.

I have this amazing team that I trust. I completely go with their decisions on things. I don't have to go in and micromanage everything. And I think the other thing is, you start to sort of... I wouldn't say relax, because I've never relaxed. But I've tried to have more confidence in the things I like, or the things other people like. That's really the big thing in this job, to second-guess yourself all the time.

I like to think that I'm a really strong, tough person, but I'm not. I'm a very, very needy person. I'm very insecure. I'm very impressionable. But, there is a side of me that is very put-together, very strong, very capable and very opinionated. It's the two sides of myself.

Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.

A strong man who has known power all his life may lose respect for that power. But a weak man knows the value of strength.

There weren’t many people in this world who would let you be vulnerable and still believe you were strong.

I'm much more collaborative than I probably was when I was first starting, much more willing to say, "I don't know the answer to that." I have really talented people and let them do their jobs and not try to control everything as much as I did when I was starting. I was a bit more insecure.

Incompetency begets incompetency. The last thing a guy who isn't sure of himself wants is a guy backing him up who is sure of himself.

One of the fundamental aspects of leadership, I realized more and more, is the ability to instill confidence in others when you yourself are feeling insecure

I think that I've learned to relax, and trust in and hire very talented people, and trust in their abilities a little more.

The team should have implicit confidence in the captain's decisions.

It is evident that not all people that have the confidence of the prime minister are the same ones that have the confidence of the head of state.

I'm not the manager because I'm always right, but I'm always right because I'm the manager.

It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.

If you're a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.