Tobacco exports should be expanded aggressively because Americans are smoking less.

I think that at the start of a game, you’re always playing to win, and then maybe if you’re ahead late in the game, you start playing not to lose. The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

I really do encourage other manufacturers to bring electric cars to market. It’s a good thing, and they need to bring it to market and keep iterating and improving and make better and better electric cars, and that’s what going to result in humanity achieving a sustainable transport future. I wish it was growing faster than it is.

You can play fast but not in a hurry. As a point guard, I can dictate that.

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

I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

I think long term you can see Tesla establishing factories in Europe, in other parts of the U.S. and in Asia.

We get paid for bringing value to the market place.

Our favorite holding period is forever.

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.

First was the mouse. The second was the click wheel. And now, we’re going to bring multi-touch to the market. And each of these revolutionary interfaces has made possible a revolutionary product – the Mac, the iPod and now the iPhone.

Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We’ve been so busy damning ourselves for years. We’ve done it all, and yet we don’t take credit for it.

Many people don’t understand ring control. They think they do until they’re against someone who really understands how to set traps, how to create holes in the octagon that they fall into.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

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 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.

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.

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

Folks, you’re the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks, you sacrificed to keep your companies open. Because of your productivity, the combined auto companies have committed to invest another $23 billion in expansion in America.

Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker.

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

I’m pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people’s bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may go there. The whole nation is interested that the best use shall be made of these territories. We want them for the homes of free white people.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.

There are different ways to do innovation. You can plant a lot of seeds, not be committed to any particular one of them, but just see what grows. And this really isn’t how we’ve approached this. We go mission-first, then focus on the pieces we need and go deep on them and be committed to them.

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

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

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.

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

A large majority of Americans believe that the U.N., not the U.S., should take the lead in working with Iraqis to transfer authentic sovereignty as well as in economic reconstruction and maintaining civic order.

Given a fair shot, given a fair chance, Americans have never, ever, ever, ever let their country down. Never. Never. Ordinary people like us. Who do extraordinary things.

Carry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don’t ever apologize for anything.

Football is a game you cannot play without making mistakes.

It is important to emphasize that guerrilla warfare is a war of the masses, a war of the people. The guerrilla band is an armed nucleus, the fighting vanguard of the people. It draws its great force from the mass of the people themselves.

It is a fine game to play – the game of politics – and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

And we can see the positive impacts right here at Solyndra. Less than a year ago, we were standing on what was an empty lot. But through the Recovery Act, this company received a loan to expand its operations. This new factory is the result of those loans.

We started off as this platform inside Facebook; and we were pretty clear from the beginning that that wasn’t where it was going to end up. A lot of people saw it and asked, ‚Why is Facebook trying to get all these applications inside Facebook when the web is clearly the platform?‘ And we actually agreed with that.

I was a little girl in World War II and I’m used to being freed by Americans.

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn’t give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That’s why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.

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.

Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.

Pool, it became clear to me, is all about angles. First, there are simple angles, as you must hit the cue ball to either side when you are not straight on.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That’s over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it’s going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade.

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

I’ve tried different things through the years to get some play on mainstream. I’ll try to tailor-make it.

In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

I think it’s horrible that people have to be told. Don’t smoke! Everybody knows it’s bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

It’s tough to negotiate from a position of weakness.

The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.

Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.

If you can’t convince them, confuse them.

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.

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.