I think, team first. It allows me to succeed, it allows my team to succeed.

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

A conductor can’t be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It’s a lesson I’ve had to relearn quite a few times.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

The vibe in our locker room is real energetic and fun and real personable, I think from Day 1. That gets you through a lot of tough times, where in hard times, it might be common nature for guys to do their own thing and split up and become silent.

I won’t have to do any major changes to continue my career a long way, hopefully. Just hopefully stay healthy and be able to help a team out as I go through and still play at a pretty high level.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what’s mine.

You know, you can only lead them from behind.

I had a rough childhood coming up, and I just took all that negative energy and made it very positive for myself to drive me. I’m a very driven person. I have passion that almost scares people, just to be successful and make it no matter what.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

When I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy. I didn’t set out to build a business empire… For me, building a business is all about doing something to be proud of, bringing talented people together and creating something that’s going to make a real difference to other people’s lives.

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.

For my career, I wouldn’t go racing if I didn’t enjoy it. I still need to have my say, and not just get put with a team and get told to deal with it.

When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team’s dugout and they were already in street clothes.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

Do not be afraid to ask for help. Nobody gets through college on their own.

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.

But I’m pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

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

Small aim is a crime.

I’ve been so blessed to play for the greatest coach at a time when our organization has done incredible things. I’ve played with the best teammates. Playing for Mr. Kraft and what his influence on the team has been.

You’ll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

My company survives because I’ve learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.

It sounds simple telling people to work hard and never quit, but to really execute and demonstrate those principles takes discipline and faith. Those are the two factors that I believe separate the good from the great, the successes from the failures.

It seems like when I was growing up there was more compromise, wanting to work with each other, and I think all of them – all of the lawmakers – have hearts to do what’s right, and they all are passionate about it.

To lead people walk behind them.

How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

I rely on other people every day of my life.

When you play sports like tennis, you’re alone, and that’s a good school for life, but it’s also a good school for life to bring your best and make those around you better, too – helping others in difficult moments.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

It’s insane that, since the Beatles and Dylan, it’s assumed that all musicians should do everything themselves. It’s that ridiculous, teenage idea that when Mick Jagger sings, he’s telling you something about his own life. It’s so arrogant to think that people would want to know about it anyway!

I don’t want a brat on my team.

I’ve got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I’ve got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

Writing a song is so personal. You have to have trust in someone you’re working with; otherwise, you’re not gonna come out with something that’s really you.

Does anybody really think that they didn’t get what they had because they didn’t have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

My game is really played above time. I don’t say that like I’m saying I’m ahead of my time. I’m saying, like, if I’m on the court and I throw a pass, the ball that I’ve thrown will lead my teammate right where he needs to go, before he even knows that that’s the right place to go to.

Obviously this song is an achievement for me in my career, but what makes me really feel good is to make Latinos feel proud. To provoke that pride that a pop figure and someone so big in music globally like Drake would sing with me completely in Spanish and create this hit ‚MIA.‘ That’s the best part of it.

I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

I’ve always been an unselfish guy, and that’s the only way I know how to play on the court and I try to play to the maximum of my ability – not only for myself but for my teammates.

There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we’ve got a system that allows them to do it.

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top – I’m afraid that’s not quite right.

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.

In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.

If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would.

Begin with the end in mind.

We care for each other and care about our family, and we are both working towards the same goal.