I’m a fighter, I’m a winner, and I’m not interested in just battling my team-mate for the back of the grid.

When the players go home, I can’t tell them what to do, so you need to create an atmosphere of trust. I don’t want to think, ‚What are they doing now? Do I need to call them?‘

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.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

If you are surrounded by your competition and you are outworking these people, outmaneuvering these people, it’s hard not to let your confidence take over. It just builds and builds and builds.

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.

Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.

My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others‘ negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.

It’s nice when little teams win.

My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

The one way to get me to work my hardest was to doubt me.

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

People have to understand one thing: at the age of 18, I arrived at a dream club like Manchester United. It was a dream come true. But, even at that moment, I was thinking about playing in England for some years and then going to play in Spain. Even at that time I was thinking that way, and I always gave 100% everything.

What is Champions League level? I saw a lot of rubbish games at Champions League level.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

There’s been a lot of talk of me being a one-man show but that’s simply not the case. We win games when I score 40 points and we’ve won when I score 10.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

I knew early on that I wanted to entertain in some form. And I knew I would work as hard as anyone to do it.

I play a complicated position in an intensely team-oriented game.

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

The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test.

It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.

People want you to fail.

I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.

Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

My wife thinks she’s better than me at puzzles. I haven’t given in on that one yet.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

Facebook are an amazing team, a brilliant team. It’s a technology that brings people together.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

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

When I do something, I do it full steam ahead.

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

I pity the fool who just gives up.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.

I’ve always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything in the world.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

The most challenging project I’ve ever done, I think, is every single thing I’ve ever tried to do. It’s never easy.

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

Under the worst conditions, horrendous conditions, people still, you know, fight for their rights and don’t just succumb.

I’ve played with IVs before, during and after games. I’ve played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don’t miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn’t that serious in the first place.

Hackathons are these things where just all of the Facebook engineers get together and stay up all night building things. And, I mean, usually at these hackathons, I code too, just alongside everyone.

I think that at the start of a game, you’re always playing to win, and then maybe if you’re ahead late in the game, you start playing not to lose. The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

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.

Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.

I was a fighting machine with a will of iron.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.