When you bring in multi-brand retail items into the country, you’re not just bringing the products, but you’re also harming local manufacturers.

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

We are moving towards a world that is reordering itself and that may appear more ordered at some periods of time, but I see no sign that we are moving towards a world order in my definition of it – namely, a system which is accepted, which is internalized by the majority of the key participants.

It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

There are some singers that know exactly when to go, and others hang on much too long and that is the same, that is the same with judges.

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating… because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

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

Women are the engine driving the growth in California’s economy. Women make California’s economy unique.

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.

Derbies are always difficult to play because you have to handle the pressure. There’s no advantage or disadvantage for either side.

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.

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

I was already on pole, then by half a second and then one second and I just kept going. Suddenly I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else, including my team mate with the same car.

I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It’s the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company.

What is a danger is that we stay stuck in a new normal where unemployment rates stay high, people who have jobs see their incomes go up, businesses make big profits. But they’re learned to do more with less, and so they don’t hire.

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing… you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn’t affect two-thirds of the people of the world.

I’m trying to get to Mars before everyone else.

Every driver is different, so I just hope whatever I do is going to be good enough, because it’s not that I just want to be with McLaren. I want to win with McLaren.

I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.

One of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete selection.

Winning the title in England is the biggest challenge of them all.

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.

There have been so many great players that I’ve played with, that I’ve played against over the years.

It was always a plan that we were going to have a retail side with what were doing musically, like an Apple store or Nike Town. I wanted something where you can come get everything – ‚Marathon‘ or ‚All Money‘ or ‚Crenshaw‘ – and make it like an experience. Especially with what Crenshaw and Slauson meant to my story.

I’d love to go into WWE and have a real knock and see what’s what.

Economy forced me to become a vegetarian, but I finally starting liking it.

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

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

Some people want to win races. Other people want to be President of the United States.

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.

Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

Babylon is everywhere. You have wrong and you have right. Wrong is what we call Babylon, wrong things. That is what Babylon is to me. I could have born in England, I could have born in America, it make no difference where me born, because there is Babylon everywhere.

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

Rule number one is: Beat your team-mate.

No one saw the recession coming.

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

I own my own company, so I’ve never had businessmen telling me what to do or getting worried if something doesn’t sell. I’ve always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop and so I’ve always had people buying them.

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

Health is certainly extremely important, and we’ve done a number of things at Facebook to help improve global health and work in that area, and I am excited to do more there, too. But the reality is that it’s not an either-or. People need to be healthy and be able to have the Internet as a backbone to connect them to the whole economy.

You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.

India’s trade deficit is because of excess of import over exports.

In college, a loss is pretty devastating. That feeling kind of goes away in an 82-game season. You hate to lose, but you also have a lot more games to make up for it.

Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.

We’re not going to go 82-0 and blow everybody out. We are going to be challenged.

Domination and monopoly is the name of the game in the web marketplace.

If I’d married someone in show business, there’d be too much competition.

In an individual sport, yes, you have to win titles. Baseball’s different. But basketball, hockey? One person can control the tempo of a game, can completely alter the momentum of a series. There’s a lot of great individual talent.

Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.

When America stopped importing from China, China stopped importing from the rest of the world. This affects Asian countries as well as Australia, Brazil, and other suppliers of raw materials.

The dollar has lost over 90 percent of its value since the Fed was created.

Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation – not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

Too much TV hurts movies.

See, that’s why Barack’s running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly – to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American – and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college.

The victor belongs to the spoils.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Pricey oil makes clear that wealth really is energy in various forms.

Often people become our friend or follower with an undercurrent of resentment in our having more success than they have. They secretly desire the opportunity to take us down a notch; they have a nose for any misstep on our part they can exploit.

I am sure as everyone knows that I am not the happiest if I don’t do a good job in qualifying or the race.