Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.

Facebook is in a very different place than Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung, and Microsoft. We are trying to build a community.

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

If you’re in business or politics, you need to have an intense understanding of what’s going on around you.

All you have in business is your reputation – so it’s very important that you keep your word.

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.

One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.

I love big business!

Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don’t think so… I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

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.

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Real art has been… what’s the word? Kidnapped? No, that’s not it. But, OK, kidnapped by business.

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

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

The ways of the Lord are different from the ways of man. Man’s ways remove people from office or business when they grow old or become disabled. But man’s ways are not and never will be the Lord’s ways.

I used to go missing a lot… Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.

I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.

If you like a person you say ‚let’s go into business together.‘ Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.

I like to combine visits to more than one place when I go on my international tours in order to get more done. I’m from Ahmedabad where we have a saying, ‚Single-fare, double journey.‘

Haitian rice farmers are quite efficient, but they can’t compete with U.S. agribusiness that relies on a huge government subsidy, thanks to Ronald Reagan’s free market enthusiasms.

We came up with TDE. As competitive as rap is, and as much as we’re trying to exceed the standards we set for ourselves, we take their wins as our wins, too.

We get paid for bringing value to the market place.

Over a 10-year period, 99 out of 100 new entrepreneurs will fail. Only one will be left standing as others get pushed out of the market or burn out from working so hard. It’s really sad.

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.

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

To me, we’re marketing hope.

What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

It’s really annoying for me. That’s not what I’m playing for, to be the face of the NBA or to be this or that or to take LeBron’s throne or whatever.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

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

Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they’re in another country.

In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you’re going to be 20 years from now is how well you’re doing in your education system.

We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.

I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It’s the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company.

Time is bunk.

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

I seen a lot of artists be hot for a minute, and then that’s it, and somebody else come in.

I will fight in many weight divisions.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

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 best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.

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.

As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher’s mound. It was as if I’d been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.

Keeping score is for games, not friendships.

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.

There have been so many great players that I’ve played with, that I’ve played against over the years.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

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

If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

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.

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty… it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.