Motivation, passion, and focus have to come from the top.

One of our first customers asked me how big we want to be. I said I want to be really big. Later, it bothered me that I answered that way. Now I say I just want to be a great company.

Brand is not a product, that's for sure; it's not one item. It's an idea, it's a theory, it's a meaning, it's how you carry yourself. It's aspirational, it's inspirational.

I wake up in the morning and I think about one brand. I don't have enough time to wake up twice and think about two.

When you see most companies get big, they want to shout about all they've done. But the consumer wants to know: 'What have you done for me lately?'

I'm a big advocate of the power of positive thinking, particularly for small businesses.

The sports apparel industry was dominated by the big shoe companies. But there was a void in apparel and I decided to fill it.

Any self-respecting entrepreneur has borrowed money from their mother at some point.

All we're trying to do is change how people think about fitness. And build Under Armour into the biggest brand in the entire land.

Where can we take no the product, but the idea?

I realized early on that I was pretty good at organizing. A lot of it was about control. While my friends were out getting hammered at concerts, I was making money. I am a control freak.

If you write in the Old World, and against it, your work must die, go missing, be veiled, before it can live the life for which it was destined in the New World.

Authors are supernatural beings. They exist in the world, also in worlds they create, and in the worlds of other authors they read.

When we do good—even when others are doing wrong—God will bless us.

My skin is so thin that the innocent words of others burn holes right through me.

Blood is one of the things that made fights cool. Like, you knew it had gotten serious. I understand why we don't do it anymore.

If happiness were easy, everybody would feel it all the time, and it wouldn't seem like such an elusive prize.

The real power is in the hands of small groups of people and I don't think they have titles.

George Carlin was great right up to the end of his life. But Richard Pryor was probably the best, most gifted stand-up comedian who will ever live.

I'm lucky in that in my character in hip hop is me. I'm Michael Render. My character is Killer Mike. But the truth that I sing in my raps align themselves with the policy of Bernie Sanders.

The question is what color will everything be at that moment when I come for you? What will the sky be saying?