Apple’s market share is bigger than BMW’s or Mercedes’s or Porsche’s in the automotive market. What’s wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?

Keeping score is for games, not friendships.

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.

I’d love to go into WWE and have a real knock and see what’s what.

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

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

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

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

In the United States, one of the main topics of academic political science is the study of attitudes and policy and their correlation. The study of attitudes is reasonably easy in the United States: heavily-polled society, pretty serious and accurate polls, and policy you can see, and you can compare them.

Obviously everybody, if you’re playing in the league, you’ve got to have somewhat of an ego about how you play the game.

These young guys are playing checkers. I’m out there playing chess.

Folks don’t like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.

Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

As long as I am playing competitive football I am happy.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

I don’t race cars.

The first time I used a simulator was in 2014 when I was competing in the Ginetta Junior Championship.

We judge people in areas where we’re vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we’re doing.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.

Competition is a sin.

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn’t been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.

Great American sport. Horseshoes is a very great game. I love 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.

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

It’s a nice reader, but there’s nothing on the iPad I look at and say, ‚Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.‘

An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator… these are NOT three separate devices! And we are calling it iPhone! Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone. And here it is.

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Earth might one day soon resemble the planet Venus.

Obama’s not Jesus. He can’t walk on water.

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

In an individual sport, yes, you have to win titles. Baseball’s different. But basketball, hockey? One person can control the tempo of a game, can completely alter the momentum of a series. There’s a lot of great individual talent.

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

Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.

Are we a nation that educates the world’s best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?

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.

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

Eventually, all companies are replaced.

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.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

I hate what I look like on TV, and I want to look better, and nothing makes the mothers more jealous.

If I had to choose a superhero to be, I would pick Superman. He’s everything that I’m not.

I have this old ’57 Porsche Speedster, and the way the door closes, I’ll just sit there and listen to the sound of the latch going, ‚cluh-CLICK-click.‘ That door! I live for that door. Whatever the opposite of planned obsolescence is, that’s what I’m into.

Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It’s a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.

Particularly Instagram, people look like they have a much better life than they really do. People basically seem like they are way better-looking than they really are, and they are way happier-seeming than they really are.

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

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

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

When we are thinking about stuff like embeds, we are not thinking about how we are competing with YouTube. We are thinking about how are we going to make it more useful for people to share stuff on Facebook.

It kills me to lose. If I’m a troublemaker, and I don’t think that my temper makes me one, then it’s because I can’t stand losing. That’s the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

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

I won at every level – all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I’ve won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won’t be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.

A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.