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.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

The connectivity declaration is about uniting the whole industry – a lot of companies that typically compete very fiercely – to push in a coherent direction.

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

Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.

At United, there are great traditions, which you can’t buy in one or two years. They are created by victories. You need to prove again and again that you are better than the others. Manchester United have always done this, and are still doing it, so they are the best.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

Wall Street apparently takes and then forgets, and then comes after the guns of law-abiding American citizens and small businesses.

The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

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

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.

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

This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines, and we don’t subsidize, we don’t want to subsidize a national rail system that has environmental impact.

The main message of Climate Revolution is that climate change is caused by the rotten financial system we’ve got, designed to create poverty and rip off any profits for a small amount of rich people. Meanwhile, it destroys the earth.

We’re not going to go 82-0 and blow everybody out. We are going to be challenged.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.

We have teams of people working on electric cars. So you never know – you may find Virgin competing with the Tesla in the car business as we do in the space business.

The female loves to play man against man. And if she is in a position to do it, there is not one who will resist.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

To win a national championship, you’ve got to be a little lucky.

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

I’m trying to get to Mars before everyone else.

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.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

Once people are aware of your presence, and perhaps vaguely intrigued, you need to stir their interest before it settles on someone else.

I think there should be regulations on social media to the degree that it negatively affects the public good.

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

As president, Reagan worked very well with Democrats to do big things. It is true that he worked to reduce the size of government and cut federal taxes and he eliminated many regulations, but he also raised taxes when necessary.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.

Rule number one is: Beat your team-mate.

Apple’s market share is bigger than BMW’s or Mercedes’s or Porsche’s in the automotive market. What’s wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?

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.

All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.

Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good.

A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.

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

Some people take defeat and losses a certain way. You see how some fighters take losses.

Without sounding biased, 70 days of football is not enough. Even if Messi plays 70 days he cannot be in the national team. You need to play around the year to be in contention for the national team.

I do have a political agenda. It’s to have as few regulations as possible.

Eight years ago, you may remember Hillary and I were rivals for the Democratic nomination. We battled for a year and a half. Let me tell you, it was tough, because Hillary was tough. I was worn out. She was doing everything I was doing, but just like Ginger Rogers, it was backwards in heels.

I think it is a good thing to buy less and choose well – it’s good for the environment and to be fair it’s also good for me because my clothes are quite expensive.

I’m a fighter, I’m a winner, and I’m not interested in just battling my team-mate for the back of the grid.

There are some singers that know exactly when to go, and others hang on much too long and that is the same, that is the same with judges.

Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That’s not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That’s not leadership. That’s abandoning our middle class.

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

Over time, yes, countries will need to look at specific GMO products like they look at drugs today, where they don’t approve them all. They look hard at the safety and the testing. And they make sure that the benefits far outweigh any of the downsides.

The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

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

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.

If you are surrounded by your competition and you are outworking these people, outmaneuvering these people, it’s hard not to let your confidence take over. It just builds and builds and builds.

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

The potential financial reward for building the ‚next Windows‘ is so great that there will never be a shortage of new technologies seeking to challenge it.

Duke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke.

I don’t know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

I’m all for a good rivalry as long as lines are drawn.

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

We should no longer measure our wealth and success in the graph that shows economic growth, but in the curve that shows the emissions of greenhouse gases.

We will have to leave this planet, and we’re going to leave it, and it’s going to make this planet better.

What we have to find is the right level of regulation of our financial system so that it has the incentive to invest in things, but at the same time, it is sufficiently regulated so it can’t get in the kind of trouble that we have seen in the past and we have seen recently.

SpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating an entrenched monopoly with no realistic means for anyone to compete.