Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.

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.

Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product.

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

A lot of advertising has gotten worse. I think it’s kind of lost its nerve, to be honest with you. I feel like the advertising of the ’60s, they were nervier. You know why? Because there was less at stake.

There are some teams and logos you see, no matter where you are in the world, and you know exactly who they are and what they mean.

Make sure of your commitment to Jesus Christ, and seek to follow Him every day. Don’t be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and His will first in everything you do.

The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

I would be married, but I’d have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

I’ve been lucky – all the ads I’ve got, I’ve got to be myself. I haven’t had to act too much or tried too hard to be someone I’m not. I think that’s why people sort of like them. Even the Fastrack ads I did with Genelia.

I do not have a merchandise line. I don’t sell knives or apparel. Though I have been approached to endorse various products from liquor to airlines to automobiles to pharmaceuticals dozens of times, I have managed to resist the temptation.

I’ve done many ads because that’s my new career. It’s an inspiring extension for my mind.

I always put myself out there. I’m not afraid to commit to something.

It’s not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

To add value to others, one must first value others.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

If you’re going to spend two years of your life on something, it has to matter to you; you have to be passionate about it.

I like playing for the purple and gold. This is where I want to finish up.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn’t about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind.

I never felt settled or calm. You can’t really commit to life when you feel that.

I want to marry Arline because I love her – which means I want to take care of her. That is all there is to it. I want to take care of her. I am anxious for the responsibilities and uncertainties of taking care of the girl I love.

This is our commitment to users and the people who use our service, is that Facebook’s a free service. It’s free now. It will always be free. We make money through having advertisements and things like that.

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.

I love that we can trust Barack to do what he says he’s going to do, even when it’s hard – especially when it’s hard.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

When I get on a roll with something, it’s really hard for me to put it down unfinished.

I’m not a real movie star. I’ve still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

I can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.

Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources.

I suppose Virgin is an unusual brand in that I suspect we’re the only ‚way of life‘ brand in the world. We’re one of maybe the top 30 best known brands in the world, yet if you look at the other 29, they all specialize in one area. Whether it’s Google, Coca-Cola, Microsoft, etc., they all generally specialize in one area.

No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

People everywhere love Windows.

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

The design of the Mac wasn’t what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it’s all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.

You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

If I made a commitment, I stood by that commitment – and try to make it real. Because when you become leaders, the most important thing you have is your word, your trust. That’s where respect comes from.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq’s future is not.

I was always trying – I never wanted to let my fans down; I always wanted them to see me in my art form.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

People’s blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.

Part of me feels you can’t say you were truly in love if it didn’t last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that’s when I’ll know it’s real – because it lasted.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.