To me, we’re marketing hope.

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

My business is to prevent the future.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

A man’s delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.

If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

Hope is a waking dream.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

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

The sun is gone, but I have a light.

It’s in the best interest of the radical left types – best psychological and strategic interest – to refuse to admit to the possibility that reasonable people can object to their ideological staff. Because if reasonable people objected, that would imply that their ideological stance is not reasonable.

I’ve never gone into business to make money. Every Virgin product and service has been made into a reality to make a positive difference in people’s lives. And by focusing on the happiness of our customers, we have been able to build a successful group of companies.

One of my mentors schooled me on branding before it was a cliche term in the game.

Steve Jobs‘ ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things.

You do the policy, I’ll do the politics.

Our favorite holding period is forever.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

Eventually, all companies are replaced.

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don’t usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp.

I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.

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.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

In my opinion, baseball is as big a business as anything there is. It has to be a business, the way it is conducted.

As long as the people don’t fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn’t stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful… but so frightening.

I’ve actually taken companies public, I’ve actually busted companies, I’ve actually gone broke.

I like the city. I like the concrete. I like big business. I like being a CEO of my own company and having a lot of responsibilities. At the same time, when I can go off with a backpack or off on a surfboard or even off on a run somewhere in the woods – that’s where I’m really happy.

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.

To our brothers in Latin America and the world, we must convey that the Cuban people will overcome.

You’ve gotta understand that with branding and the way things are promoted, in our day and age, your older movie stars are not reachable or accessible because they’re not a part of the whole social media world.

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

War is the business of barbarians.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Keep people off-balance and in the dark by never revealing the purpose behind your actions. If they have no clue what you are up to, they cannot prepare a defense.

You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

He who has felt his own ruin will not imagine the case of any to be hopeless; nor will he think them too fallen to be worthy his regard.

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

Our constitution is a ray of hope: H for harmony, O for Opportunity, P for people’s participation and E for equality.

For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing – stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses – makes more money for me than making movies.

However weak we are, however poor, however little our faith, or however small our grace may be, our names are still written on His heart; nor shall we lose our share in Jesus‘ love.

By reading, you learn through others‘ experiences, generally, a better way to do business, especially in our line of work where the consequences of incompetence are so final for young men.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

Most of us have hoped and prayed for something to happen a certain way, but it didn’t. And when this happened, we had a choice to make: to react with offense toward God or to trust Him anyway.

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.

I totally disagree with the view that the Tibet struggle will die, and there will be no hope for Tibet, after the Dalai Lama passes away.

At the end of the day, I pray for the best.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue.

I always wanted to have a headphone line but I feel like I’m going to do more than just headphones eventually, but we want to wake the world up right now with this.

If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn’t have to advertise them.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

But, the thing is, since I always had my own little shop and direct access to the public, I’ve been able to build up a technique without marketing people ever telling me what the public wants.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.