Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

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

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

Yes, we’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

Outsourcing is inevitable, and I don’t think it’s necessarily treating people like things.

Put it this way: If I asked, ‚How’s business?‘ and you say, ‚Boomin‘ or ‚Amazing,‘ I already know the answer.

You don’t have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.

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

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can’t help it. It’s the truth.

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

I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I’m not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

There are three faithful friends – an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

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

Before 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.

We’re running the company to serve more people.

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

Fame may go by and – so long, I’ve had you.

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it’s not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that’s not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

Economy’s got to get moving, we’ve got to get the unemployment rate down. That may be the defining issue of the campaign.

In business or in life, don’t follow the wagon tracks too closely.

Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus‘ success in the spreadsheet – basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.

Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

Until we have comprehensive financial education, we’ll never see the end of our booms and busts.

If you’re worried about the deficit, pay attention to the fact that it’s almost all attributable to military spending and the totally dysfunctional health program.

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

I 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.

I was approached about having my own network many, many years ago. There were some people who wanted to start up a network, and I didn’t want to get that involved in the business aspect of it.

In the middle of a recession, where we’re just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster.

SpaceX 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.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

From my very first day as an entrepreneur, I’ve felt the only mission worth pursuing in business is to make people’s lives better.

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.

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his years in office, he was not particularly popular. He was more or less average. He severely harmed the American economy.

Fuel prices are at the center of our lives. They affect our ability to travel, stay warm, and feed ourselves.

No one saw the recession coming.

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

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

Foreigners don’t want to invest any more in France – and this is not working.

‚My country, right or wrong‘ is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying ‚My mother, drunk or sober.‘

You 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.‘

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high level, even the best product won’t make a company successful.

Now, anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing well, hoping that it’s going to trickle down to working people who are running faster and faster just to keep up, you’ll never see it.

Food Stamp recipients didn’t cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did.

I’ll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I’ll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I’m not there, but I’ll always come back.

Gains achieved at great cost against our enemy in Afghanistan are reversible.

In business, if you realize you’ve made a bad decision, you change it.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many.

I’m not a real movie star. I’ve still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

If you talk bad about country music, it’s like saying bad things about my momma. Them’s fightin‘ words.

If you want to thrive in today’s economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed.

I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.