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

I’m a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.

I think right now it’s a battle for the mindshare of developers and for the mindshare of customers, and right now iPhone and Android are winning that battle.

The United States fully accepts the profound truth that our own progress, prosperity, and peace are interlocked with the progress, prosperity, and peace of all humanity.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

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.

I was approached about having my own network many, many years ago. There were some people who wanted to start up a network, and I didn’t want to get that involved in the business aspect of it.

It’s a question of whether we’re going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

The last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of the recession because that would just suck up and take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man’s pride in his work.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

My business is to prevent the future.

Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.

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

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

In this industry, there’s a lot of cases of being a competitor in one way, but you’re often a customer and a vendor in another way. It’s not atypical in aerospace. Actually, it’s not that atypical in a lot of industries.

The real minimum wage is zero.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

New roads; new ruts.

We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.

There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that’s rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy.

The rise in the price of gold is a sign that capitalism has stumbled.

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.

We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.

One thing I’ve tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.

In the history of medicine, it is not always the great scientist or the learned doctor who goes forward to discover new fields, new avenues, new ideas.

Throughout my years in business, I discovered something. I would always ask why you do things. The answers that I would invariably get are: ‚Oh, that’s just the way things are done around here.‘ Nobody knows why they do what they do. Nobody thinks very deeply about things in business.

The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.

In war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash.

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

A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren’t dependent on Washington doing something different.

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

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!

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

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

The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating… because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

As you know, low demand and high supply means a drop in value of anything, including the dollar.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

Do your job. Do it the best you can. Do it right, because somebody, sometimes your best friend, is waiting for you to screw up so she can take your place.

The humanists‘ replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you’ll either save yourself or you’ll be immortal. Of course, that’s a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there’s no ethical progress whatsoever.

We have not yet reached the goal but… we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.

To make headway, improve your head.

The reason we should do a carbon tax is because it’s the right thing to do. It’s economics 101, elementary stuff.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

We’re running the company to serve more people.

It’s safe to say headphones is a good business.

I’m always amazed at how many people assume a business has to lose money before it makes money.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

If you’re in this business and you are scared, then you better do something else.

If I’d observed all the rules, I’d never have got anywhere.

Often people become our friend or follower with an undercurrent of resentment in our having more success than they have. They secretly desire the opportunity to take us down a notch; they have a nose for any misstep on our part they can exploit.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

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.

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

The pace of progress on Mars depends upon the pace of progress of SpaceX.