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.
Barack ObamaThe dollar has lost over 90 percent of its value since the Fed was created.
Robert KiyosakiIf we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.
Franklin D. RooseveltJobs are a centuries-old concept created during the Industrial Revolution. Despite the reality that we’re now deep in the Information Age, many people are studying for, or working at, or clinging to the Industrial Age idea of a safe, secure job.
Robert KiyosakiWe believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.
John F. KennedyWhen you bring in multi-brand retail items into the country, you’re not just bringing the products, but you’re also harming local manufacturers.
Narendra ModiNobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we’ve got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.
Barack ObamaWe contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
Winston ChurchillPeople do not understand what a great revenue economy is.
Marcus Tullius CiceroFirst, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?
Barack ObamaI just think that – when a country needs more income and we do, we’re only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that – that – when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.
Warren BuffettThe state of the economy is not the issue when it comes to growing a business. The relevant questions are always: ‚What business are you in? Furthermore, is it adapting to the times?‘
Robert KiyosakiMore businesses should be following Apple’s stance in encouraging more investment in sustainability.
Richard BransonWorld War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.
Robert KiyosakiThe pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.
Narendra ModiPeople who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes.
Thomas SowellPolitics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.
David HareNo one saw the recession coming.
Gordon RamsayI will cut taxes – cut taxes – for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.
Barack ObamaYou know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, ‚Joey, the guy in Olyphant’s out of work, it’s an economic slowdown. When your brother-in-law’s out of work, it’s a recession. When you’re out of work, it’s a depression.‘
Joe BidenIf you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it’s a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.
Christopher HitchensWe hire people who want to make the best things in the world.
Steve JobsFor 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.
Jackie ChanUnemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.
Bill GatesEngland is a nation of shopkeepers.
Napoleon BonaparteThe Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.
Fidel CastroDo not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
Henry David ThoreauA business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
Henry FordI always tell people that you should only hire people to be on your team if you would work for them.
Mark ZuckerbergIf you believe that tax policy has nothing to do with the economy, then you’re pretty much like a rock, only dumber.
John KennedyWhile the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
Karl MarxSpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating an entrenched monopoly with no realistic means for anyone to compete.
Elon MuskThe last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of the recession because that would just suck up and take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole.
Barack ObamaMy task over the last two years hasn’t just been to stop the bleeding. My task has also been to try to figure out how do we address some of the structural problems in the economy that have prevented more Googles from being created.
Barack ObamaTariffs that save jobs in the steel industry mean higher steel prices, which in turn means fewer sales of American steel products around the world and losses of far more jobs than are saved.
Thomas SowellThere are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation.
Herbert HooverFor any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own.
Joe BidenI feel that the best companies are started not because the founder wanted a company but because the founder wanted to change the world… If you decide you want to found a company, you maybe start to develop your first idea. And hire lots of workers.
Mark ZuckerbergI would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president – with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln – just in terms of what we’ve gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we’ve got a lot more work to do. And we’re gonna keep on at it.
Barack ObamaDuring most of my freelancing, I made what I would have made in charge of the cafeteria at a pretty good junior-high school.
Kurt VonnegutAs capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.
Robert KiyosakiAnd what’s interesting, and I don’t think a lot of Americans understand this fact, is that, one, most new jobs are created by small businesses; two, most small businesses pay tax at the individual income tax, or many small businesses pay tax there.
George W. BushWe’re still in a recession. We’re not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out.
Warren BuffettThe immigration issue is, I recognize, one that generates a lot of passion, but it does not make sense for us to want to push talent out.
Barack ObamaAre we a nation that educates the world’s best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?
Barack ObamaPutin sought to destabilize Ukraine’s economy.
Joe BidenIndia’s trade deficit is because of excess of import over exports.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamI love big business!
Clint EastwoodIf you want to thrive in today’s economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed.
Robert KiyosakiJapan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That’s a statement in and of itself.
Dan QuayleIn December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can’t afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.
Barack ObamaYou can’t hire someone to practice for you.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.Until we have comprehensive financial education, we’ll never see the end of our booms and busts.
Robert KiyosakiI think my top salary was maybe in 1966. I made $17,000 and 11 of that came from selling other players‘ equipment.
Bob UeckerBefore the 1970s, banks were banks. They did what banks were supposed to do in a state capitalist economy: they took unused funds from your bank account, for example, and transferred them to some potentially useful purpose like helping a family buy a home or send a kid to college.
Noam ChomskyEven if the economy crashes, we will still burn oil.
Robert KiyosakiNow you have a choice: we can give more tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, or we can start rewarding companies that open new plants and train new workers and create new jobs here, in the United States of America.
Barack ObamaDo you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.
John D. RockefellerNo other country in the world does what we do. On every issue, the world turns to us, not simply because of the size of our economy or our military might – but because of the ideals we stand for, and the burdens we bear to advance them.
Barack ObamaThe biggest and most deadly ‚tax‘ rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits – food stamps, housing subsidies and the like – if their income goes up.
Thomas Sowell