My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV.

If I’d married someone in show business, there’d be too much competition.

I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It’s the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company.

I’m a pretty good winner. I’m a terrible loser. And I rub it in pretty good when I win.

Taking in a baseball game on TV is also a big treat.

An important priority for me is a business must get their own house in order. Be or become an agent of positive change in your own enterprise and adopt responsible practices to eliminate the risks that often lie at the root of inequality and poverty.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

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.

From 1945 to 1974, the Western world – including America – was more socialistic than capitalistic, more pro-labor than pro-business.

In that film, the man and the part met. As far as I’m concerned, that part is Greg’s for life. I’ve had many, many offers to turn it into musicals, into TV or stage plays, but I’ve always refused.

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.

Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

There’s this lingering philosophy that movie stars shouldn’t do TV.

February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned.

I speak to you only as an American who happens to be an American Negro and one who is proud of that heritage. We ask for nothing special. We ask only that we be permitted to compete on an even basis, and if we are not worthy, then the competition shall, per se, eliminate us.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

We’re very focused on making News Feed really good, making our photos experience really good, making messaging really good, and creating great location apps. That’s the nature of a platform business of our scale. Most companies that are relevant to us will have some overlaps in some competitive way.

I love going one-on-one with someone. That’s what I do. I’ve never lost. It’s a whole different game, just to have them right in front of you and be able to do whatever you want.

Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it’s not going to get the business.

We get paid for bringing value to the market place.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

We have teams of people working on electric cars. So you never know – you may find Virgin competing with the Tesla in the car business as we do in the space business.

I’ve noticed that when I am selling a lot of records, certain things become easier. I’m not talking about getting a table in a restaurant.

We’re running the company to serve more people.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.

Derbies are always difficult to play because you have to handle the pressure. There’s no advantage or disadvantage for either side.

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

To me, being the best means proving it in different countries and championships.

Just as I wanted to outdo everyone when I played, I had to outdo everyone when we were out on the town.

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

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.

The Internet offers opportunities that are more unique than ever before. With TV, I know I’m making 22 minutes; I know there’s a commercial in the middle. With the Internet, no one knows anything. No rules.

Don’t go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you’ll land in trouble too big for you.

To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.

If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

In war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash.

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

To me, business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it’s not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that’s not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

I got an album concept called ‚Exit Strategy,‘ that might be one of my last ones. It’s a term they use in business when you build companies. You create an exit strategy as you make a company. You don’t wait till you’re five years in it; you create a exit strategy as you make the company.

If you or I fail at business, we fail. If we cheat and fail, we go to jail. But if you’re rich and politically connected, your incompetence may be protected by a government bailout.

People just don’t understand how obsessed I am with winning.

I was born in Africa. I came to California because it’s really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don’t see a viable competitor.

I’ve never gone into business to make money. Every Virgin product and service has been made into a reality to make a positive difference in people’s lives. And by focusing on the happiness of our customers, we have been able to build a successful group of companies.

I don’t think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don’t think they know how to run a trailer park.

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

The potential financial reward for building the ‚next Windows‘ is so great that there will never be a shortage of new technologies seeking to challenge it.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

For the first time we’re allowing developers who don’t work at Facebook to develop applications just as if they were. That’s a big deal because it means that all developers have a new way of doing business if they choose to take advantage of it. There are whole companies that are forming whose only product is a Facebook Platform application.

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

In the ideal world, if I was perfect, I’d be able to beat every teammate that I have, in every race.