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

Mine is better than ours.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

In my opinion, baseball is as big a business as anything there is. It has to be a business, the way it is conducted.

I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

To innovate is not to reform.

In my case Pilgrim’s Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

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

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.

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

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

You must keep raising this game to higher and higher levels, as on the pool table – mastering eventually the psychological angles. Your playing is a pleasure, all the way to the end, to death, when the game is over.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

Markets have built in inefficiencies, serious inefficiencies which are well known.

In business or in life, don’t follow the wagon tracks too closely.

We all started playing football against our best friends, and I can’t remember a moment where, because it was my best friend, I did not want to win against him.

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

As scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us – aiming to inspire a new generation of young scientists to continue once we are gone.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

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

I’ve never gone into business to make money. Every Virgin product and service has been made into a reality to make a positive difference in people’s lives. And by focusing on the happiness of our customers, we have been able to build a successful group of companies.

India should walk on her own shadow – we must have our own development model.

We have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans, we’ll have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts. It will be a way more interesting place to live.

Eventually, all companies are replaced.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that.

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

To me, business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.

This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

I believe that economics is based on scarcity of markets. And it’s possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of it for commerce.

That’s when it becomes a business. When you’ve been public a long time, when it’s a career. You do certain films, you sell them.

To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, ‚You’re better than the Cassius of old.‘

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

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

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin‘ on, I then got the money, and gone.

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

So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you – and fight alongside you – until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.

Although I don’t like the way the Chinese do business, I continue to do business in China. I have to. They’re the next world power.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

I think most of the important stuff on the Internet has been built. There will be continued innovation, for sure, but the great problems of the Internet have essentially been solved.

I guess for every driver the aim is to beat their teammate.

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

Some people want to win races. Other people want to be President of the United States.

It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.

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.

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

I’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me it’s one day at a time.

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.

I suppose we need not go mourning the buffaloes. In the nature of things, they had to give place to better cattle, though the change might have been made without barbarous wickedness.

An important priority for me is a business must get their own house in order. Be or become an agent of positive change in your own enterprise and adopt responsible practices to eliminate the risks that often lie at the root of inequality and poverty.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

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

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.