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.

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

How you go about testing is just very different to just being in the situation of qualifying, having to go out, having to nail the lap.

My unpredictability is what separates me. If you move in so many ways, your opponent is not focused on what he’s doing. He’s focusing in on what you’re doing, and it freezes him. When they freeze and you hit, they shatter like glass.

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

Many people don’t understand ring control. They think they do until they’re against someone who really understands how to set traps, how to create holes in the octagon that they fall into.

You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that’s the one thing people can’t take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment.

Most of the stuff I try in a game, in the moment, I have supreme confidence I’m going to execute it.

Because we’re actors we can pretend and fake it, but I’d rather the intimate investment was authentic.

When we have the ball, the other team has to run. The most important thing is for the players to be prepared to be a little bit wild.

It’s what counts, isn’t it, on the Sunday, rather than pre-season testing. If you lock up, you do a little mistake, it’s nothing, but if you do it on Sunday, you lose a place or you have to box for a flat spot or something like that. It’s a much bigger problem.

There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don’t usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp.

Folks, you’re the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks, you sacrificed to keep your companies open. Because of your productivity, the combined auto companies have committed to invest another $23 billion in expansion in America.

No foreign policy – no matter how ingenious – has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

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.

If you are a small company taking on a big company, you need to have a sense of humor.

Gold is hoarded. It’s estimated that 95 percent of all gold ever mined is still around.

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

We were told our campaign wasn’t sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.

The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.

If you have faith in our leaders of commerce, don’t buy gold. If you do not have faith in them, maybe you should buy gold or silver.

I suppose Virgin is an unusual brand in that I suspect we’re the only ‚way of life‘ brand in the world. We’re one of maybe the top 30 best known brands in the world, yet if you look at the other 29, they all specialize in one area. Whether it’s Google, Coca-Cola, Microsoft, etc., they all generally specialize in one area.

My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

An army marches on its stomach.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.

Indians invest more in Britain than in the rest of European Union combined. It is not because they want to save on interpretation costs, but because they find an environment that is welcoming and familiar.

I’m bad at picking heroes.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

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

I don’t think there’s been anything in the game of football in my lifetime that has changed college football more than redshirting.

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

There’s 20 companies that I have investments in – some batteries, some solar-thermal, one big nuclear thing. We need hundreds and hundreds of companies like that, so that in a 20-year time frame we really are starting to change the energy infrastructure.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

The military can buy our diplomats some time.

My business is to prevent the future.

War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

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

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

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

I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!

Many gold and silver experts will recommend you buy numismatic coins – rare and old coins. If you are not a rare coin expert, I’d encourage you to stay away from them. New investors often pay too much for rare coins that are not really rare.

Keep people off-balance and in the dark by never revealing the purpose behind your actions. If they have no clue what you are up to, they cannot prepare a defense.

I’m going to retain a lot of Microsoft’s stock.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

As a precious metal, silver is also money.

First was the mouse. The second was the click wheel. And now, we’re going to bring multi-touch to the market. And each of these revolutionary interfaces has made possible a revolutionary product – the Mac, the iPod and now the iPhone.

The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

I don’t want to wake up and be bored. That’s probably my greatest fear is to have nothing to do. What better job is there than to play quarterback for an NFL team, and certainly one that I’ve been on for a long time and had success with? I don’t plan on giving it up any time soon.

I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.

The onus is on the managers to send out an attacking formation and to tell their players to be bold.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing.

You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

Football is a game you cannot play without making mistakes.