Automotive franchise laws were put in place decades ago to prevent a manufacturer from unfairly opening stores in direct competition with an existing franchise dealer that had already invested time, money and effort to open and promote their business.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Look at the world. There is no pure competitor to the United States of America.

I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.

It’s important that we invest in America – literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can’t let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another.

I’m trying to get to Mars before everyone else.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Great American sport. Horseshoes is a very great game. I love it.

As a precious metal, silver is also money.

There is not enough funding for basic sciences in India. We have to invest in a big way, and I am pushing that idea.

Too much TV hurts movies.

Friend, there’s no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.

There have been so many great players that I’ve played with, that I’ve played against over the years.

It’s not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

I don’t invest in ideas because ideas are a dime a dozen. I could steal the idea pretty quickly.

Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.

I won at every level – all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I’ve won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won’t be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.

It’s really annoying for me. That’s not what I’m playing for, to be the face of the NBA or to be this or that or to take LeBron’s throne or whatever.

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

Every dollar I made from DJing, I put into my videos, promotion – everything.

In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you’re going to be 20 years from now is how well you’re doing in your education system.

Marathon running, like golf, is a game for players, not winners. That is why Callaway sells golf clubs and Nike sells running shoes. But running is unique in that the world’s best racers are on the same course, at the same time, as amateurs, who have as much chance of winning as your average weekend warrior would scoring a touchdown in the NFL.

As long as I am playing competitive football I am happy.

In an individual sport, yes, you have to win titles. Baseball’s different. But basketball, hockey? One person can control the tempo of a game, can completely alter the momentum of a series. There’s a lot of great individual talent.

Competition gives me energy. It keeps me focused.

It kills me to lose. If I’m a troublemaker, and I don’t think that my temper makes me one, then it’s because I can’t stand losing. That’s the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it’s like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.

Often people become our friend or follower with an undercurrent of resentment in our having more success than they have. They secretly desire the opportunity to take us down a notch; they have a nose for any misstep on our part they can exploit.

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn’t willing to.

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.‘

The connectivity declaration is about uniting the whole industry – a lot of companies that typically compete very fiercely – to push in a coherent direction.

The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.

I need to do well and show I’m a worthy driver in F1.

We, we – as I say, we go in and shake up other industries and I think, you know, we do it differently and I think that industries are not quite the same as a result of Virgin attacking the market.

I’d love to go into WWE and have a real knock and see what’s what.

Do your job. Do it the best you can. Do it right, because somebody, sometimes your best friend, is waiting for you to screw up so she can take your place.

There are good examples of companies – Coca-Cola is one – that invested before there was a huge market in countries, and I think that ended up playing out to their benefit for decades to come.

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

When we are thinking about stuff like embeds, we are not thinking about how we are competing with YouTube. We are thinking about how are we going to make it more useful for people to share stuff on Facebook.

The seven-inch tablets are tweeners: too big to compete with a smartphone, and too small to compete with an iPad.

If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was ‚satisfactory,‘ I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

I guess for every driver the aim is to beat their teammate.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

Folks don’t like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.

If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn’t be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances, and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consumers.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

All of these young people have some kind of potential in them. And if we don’t invest in them as a nation, regardless of where they come from or what color they are, if we don’t invest in them, we lose.

I am sure as everyone knows that I am not the happiest if I don’t do a good job in qualifying or the race.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

The Premier League is one of the most difficult in the world. There’s five, six, or seven clubs that can be the champions. Only one can win, and all the others are disappointed and live in the middle of disaster.

Hip hop has always been braggin‘ and boasting and ‚I’m better at you than this‘ and ‚I’m better at you than that.‘

The more players I have, the more difficult choices there are for me, but the better it is for LFC.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

There is something special which rides on a game between Liverpool and United.

In college, a loss is pretty devastating. That feeling kind of goes away in an 82-game season. You hate to lose, but you also have a lot more games to make up for it.

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

I can hold my own when it comes to burping. I’ve got a good feeling that I could win a championship.

At United, there are great traditions, which you can’t buy in one or two years. They are created by victories. You need to prove again and again that you are better than the others. Manchester United have always done this, and are still doing it, so they are the best.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.