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.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

In the ideal world, if I was perfect, I’d be able to beat every teammate that I have, in every race.

Change in all things is sweet.

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

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.

That’s something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

I need to do well and show I’m a worthy driver in F1.

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

I’ve never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I’ve only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.

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.

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things.

I was so used to going out and winning state championships and playing in the postseason.

Newspaper readership is still growing in India.

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

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

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.

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

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.

Even the most seemingly unpleasant situations – if you become aligned with it, something good will emerge from that.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn’t be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances, and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consumers.

No driver is perfect.

My biggest competitor was my mum. I used to try to beat her at Chinese chequers, chess, carrom, volleyball, badminton, football, wrestling.

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

I’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

If you’re entering anything where there’s an existing marketplace, against large, entrenched competitors, then your product or service needs to be much better than theirs. It can’t be a little bit better, because then you put yourself in the shoes of the consumer… you’re always going to buy the trusted brand unless there’s a big difference.

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Even though I had won in other categories, I didn’t have any expectations when I came into F1. Qualifying fifth, finishing sixth? I didn’t expect it.

My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

The redwood is the glory of the Coast Range. It extends along the western slope, in a nearly continuous belt about ten miles wide, from beyond the Oregon boundary to the south of Santa Cruz, a distance of nearly four hundred miles, and in massive, sustained grandeur and closeness of growth surpasses all the other timber woods of the world.

My first win feels better than a draw!

We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.

If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

To me, being the best means proving it in different countries and championships.

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

I was already on pole, then by half a second and then one second and I just kept going. Suddenly I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else, including my team mate with the same car.

Don’t be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.

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.

People invest in businesses that they believe have the leadership, mission and team to grow and operate profitably.

If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.

The more you practice, the better you get, the more freedom you have to create.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I’ve changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents‘ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Hip hop has always been braggin‘ and boasting and ‚I’m better at you than this‘ and ‚I’m better at you than that.‘

The seven-inch tablets are tweeners: too big to compete with a smartphone, and too small to compete with an iPad.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.