As more airlines consolidated and grew larger and more focused on the bottom line, flying in the U.S. became an awful experience. Despite moves to block our airline from flying, Virgin America began service in August 2007 – with the goal of making flying good again.

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.

If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. ‚Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that’s mass production.

The Premier League is one of the most difficult in the world. There’s five, six, or seven clubs that can be the champions. Only one can win, and all the others are disappointed and live in the middle of disaster.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

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

Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.

There are some singers that know exactly when to go, and others hang on much too long and that is the same, that is the same with judges.

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines, and we don’t subsidize, we don’t want to subsidize a national rail system that has environmental impact.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

When you’re older you want to learn from other people.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

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 finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is.

I’m trying to get to Mars before everyone else.

Today, we have private airline companies, but if you take a look at a Boeing plane next time you travel, you’ll see that you are basically taking a ride on a modified bomber.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

I’m a big fan of all-you-can-eat plans, because they’re simpler for customers.

Kids will remind you that, even though you’ve gone down a road 100 times, it’s brand new for them – and that’s healthy.

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

SpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating an entrenched monopoly with no realistic means for anyone to compete.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

March is a month without mercy for rabid basketball fans. There is no such thing as a ‚gentleman gambler‘ when the Big Dance rolls around. All sheep will be fleeced, all fools will be punished severely… There are no Rules when the deal goes down in the final weeks of March. Even your good friends will turn into monsters.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

It is a neck-and-neck race between Mr. Gray and myself who shall complete our apparatus first. He has the advantage over me in being a practical electrician – but I have reason to believe that I am better acquainted with the phenomena of sound than he is – so that I have an advantage there.

We’re running the company to serve more people.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Keeping score is for games, not friendships.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

I didn’t want to play it boring and safe. I also didn’t want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they’re even scarier than first ones.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It’s our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

Let the path be open to talent.

Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.

Well, we know that people in Australia love the idea of both Impulse and Virgin Blue getting up and adding a bit of competition, and it’s fun to be able to deliver it.

Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experienes that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes.

To win a national championship, you’ve got to be a little lucky.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.

I’m just looking to learn, grow, stay focused, and become a better fighter and a better athlete.

The more players I have, the more difficult choices there are for me, but the better it is for LFC.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

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.

If you win two games, one game or three games, you can still say it’s luck. But when you win a championship over 18 games, it’s not luck.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

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.

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.

In the absence of sound oversight, responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.