The victor belongs to the spoils.

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.

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

I didn’t have to win, and winning wasn’t important to me. Being world champion wasn’t important to me. What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.

If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.

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.

Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

Smiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small.

We should understand the source of our authority and something of the keys that control its power.

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

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

Nature has always had more force than education.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

It’s life isn’t it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

To bear means to support the weight of that which is held. It is a sacred trust to bear the priesthood, which is the mighty power and authority of God.

Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

That’s what you live for as a sportsman. You have to put up a fight.

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.

I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don’t have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee… I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

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.

How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.

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.

It’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.

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.

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

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

‚Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

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

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

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.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

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.

Power and speed be hands and feet.

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

My relationship to power and authority is that I’m all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim’s sympathies.

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

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

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

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.

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

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.

Reputation is the cornerstone of power. Through reputation alone you can intimidate and win; once it slips, however, you are vulnerable, and will be attacked on all sides. Make your reputation unassailable.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.