The victor belongs to the spoils.

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.

If you are a small company taking on a big company, you need to have a sense of humor.

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

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

When I was playing, there were always lots of teams in contention for the league – Arsenal, Manchester City, Liverpool, Leeds. Every week was a big game and a big battle.

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

People just don’t understand how obsessed I am with winning.

We all want to win more, but it’s all about being blessed and embracing your blessings. We have life.

If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened.

Gains achieved at great cost against our enemy in Afghanistan are reversible.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.

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.

The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy – the one that’s absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.

Well, we know that people in Australia love the idea of both Impulse and Virgin Blue getting up and adding a bit of competition, and it’s fun to be able to deliver it.

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn’t want to give up power.

When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team’s dugout and they were already in street clothes.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

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

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

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

I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

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

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.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

The Medici created and destroyed me.

Power is a complicated word and can take many forms.

Power is competence.

Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.

If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was ‚satisfactory,‘ I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.

It obviously bothers people when Real Madrid win. It makes them jealous. There isn’t a level playing field.

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.

The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

If my edge is dull, my sword is dull, and I don’t want to fight another guy whose sword is dull. If you’ve got two steel swords going back and forth hitting each other, what’s gonna happen? Both of them are going to get sharper. Everybody that’s in the industry has lost their edge.

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

I was born in Africa. I came to California because it’s really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don’t see a viable competitor.

If we want to reduce poverty and misery, if we want to give to every deserving individual what is needed for a safe existence of an intelligent being, we want to provide more machinery, more power. Power is our mainstay, the primary source of our many-sided energies.

Experience acquired in the heroic battle against Batista’s tyranny showed that the enemy, no matter what his strength, could not defeat the Cuban people.

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.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

One thing I have learned in my painful career as a gambler is that bragging when you get lucky and win a few games will plunge you into gloom and unacceptable beatings very soon. It happens every time.

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

I think our democracy has it exactly right: two terms, eight years. It’s enough. Because it’s important to have one foot in reality when you have access to this kind of power.

It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people’s lives.

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.