These young guys are playing checkers. I’m out there playing chess.

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

In war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash.

When we have the ball, the other team has to run. The most important thing is for the players to be prepared to be a little bit wild.

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don’t believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can’t possibly foresee now.

Competition is a sin.

When I was younger, I used to have more flair, I used to do more tricks, the nutmegs, the step-overs.

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

One must change one’s tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one’s superiority.

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

When we are thinking about stuff like embeds, we are not thinking about how we are competing with YouTube. We are thinking about how are we going to make it more useful for people to share stuff on Facebook.

Players who are not from the U.K. have to get used to the winds. I have to adapt my style as a result as well. Often, you are forced to keep things simple.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

Bring them on.

My only scheme was to be a rapper.

What matters in the Sun-tzu universe are not positions of strength and power, but situations in which you have options, full of potential force.

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

The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.

To me, we’re marketing hope.

I won at every level – all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I’ve won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won’t be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.

When you’re young, you’re not afraid of what comes next. You’re excited by it.

If you can’t convince them, confuse them.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn’t do anything to you, but since you aren’t wise, you need us who are old.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

It’s been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: ‚I’m going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.‘ You’ve just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.

Most of the stuff I try in a game, in the moment, I have supreme confidence I’m going to execute it.

No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you’re always threatened by certain… You’re always threatened by other women, period.

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

I’ve had the good fortune and blessing to run for the offices for which I really wanted to do the work.

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

Rule number one is: Beat your team-mate.

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.

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.

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

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.

I’ve found that men I’ve dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I’ve found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren’t competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been… challenging.

Often, in the real world, it’s not the smart that get ahead but the bold.

It’s a juicy thing to say we’re building a phone, which is why people want to write about it. But it’s so clearly the wrong strategy for us.

I wrote my first song at 12 and remember someone asking, ‚What were you going through at 12 that you could write about?‘ I get what you’re saying, but 11, 12, 13 were the hardest years of my life. You learn everything. You learn how horrible things feel.

I can’t tell you the number of times I looked down at what was going on on the ground, or I was engaged in a fight somewhere, and I knew within a couple of minutes how I was going to screw up the enemy. And I knew it because I’d done so much reading.

Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

I believe that many of my young guys lived because I didn’t waste their lives because I didn’t have the vision in my mind of how to destroy the enemy at least cost to our guys and to the innocents on the battlefields.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

The good part about youngsters is that they are so fearless. You want to be like them.

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.

My age is very insignificant to me. I don’t think about it, but the world does. The world likes young people in general.

From a young age, I learned to focus on the things I was good at and delegate to others what I was not good at. That’s how Virgin is run. Fantastic people throughout the Virgin Group run our businesses, allowing me to think creatively and strategically.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

Youth is wasted on the young.