To me, we’re marketing hope.

I always wanted to have a headphone line but I feel like I’m going to do more than just headphones eventually, but we want to wake the world up right now with this.

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

I’m in this business to be creative – I’ll even diminish it and say to be a content provider.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

I believe that many of my young guys lived because I didn’t waste their lives because I didn’t have the vision in my mind of how to destroy the enemy at least cost to our guys and to the innocents on the battlefields.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

I always entertain great hopes.

Being beautiful is not so fun when you’re in a business with all men.

Although I don’t like the way the Chinese do business, I continue to do business in China. I have to. They’re the next world power.

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don’t have for something they don’t need.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Even if my songs are quite sad or quite dark, I don’t want my songs to make people sad. It’s very important for me that all my songs have some kind of hope or light.

The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.

We’re running the company to serve more people.

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

I think I’ve got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn’t read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.

Marriage is the death of hope.

My evidence that I am saved does not lie in the fact that I preach, or that I do this or that. All my hope lies in this: that Jesus Christ came to save sinners. I am a sinner, I trust Him, then He came to save me, and I am saved.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

My business is to prevent the future.

Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.

We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon – no alternative.

It was always a plan that we were going to have a retail side with what were doing musically, like an Apple store or Nike Town. I wanted something where you can come get everything – ‚Marathon‘ or ‚All Money‘ or ‚Crenshaw‘ – and make it like an experience. Especially with what Crenshaw and Slauson meant to my story.

When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair, there is no hope.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man’s pride in his work.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

I do not have a merchandise line. I don’t sell knives or apparel. Though I have been approached to endorse various products from liquor to airlines to automobiles to pharmaceuticals dozens of times, I have managed to resist the temptation.

The Middle East is hopeful. There’s hope there.

In business or in life, don’t follow the wagon tracks too closely.

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.

The capability of negotiating… is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Any time an investment company has to spend heavily on advertising, it’s probably a bad business in which to invest.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.

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.

Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.

A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people’s hope.

One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.

In business, if you realize you’ve made a bad decision, you change it.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

When I started analysing games in 2001, I had a DVD recorder. I’d be at home watching the games just on a normal TV, watching what I could and trying to figure out what we would be facing a few weeks later. The problem was, in the team meetings, I’d always have to keep going back and forwards with the footage, trying to get to the right part.

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

The one thing about the business of entertainment is that you have to learn patience.

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 see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.

Percentage margins don’t matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.