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

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

When you’re young, you look at television and think, there’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

If you’re in this business and you are scared, then you better do something else.

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

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

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault. Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?

For the first time we’re allowing developers who don’t work at Facebook to develop applications just as if they were. That’s a big deal because it means that all developers have a new way of doing business if they choose to take advantage of it. There are whole companies that are forming whose only product is a Facebook Platform application.

When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them – lots of bombs were going to come down on these people. I went there not knowing anything, except that I thought the whole thing was stupid and that I wanted to see who these people were that we were going to bomb.

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.

Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.

I think that every artist – or anybody that’s in business – could benefit from a direct-to-consumer strategy, so I think that that applies to us as artists and content creators, too.

No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China’s behavior overnight.

Eventually, all companies are replaced.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

Nowhere is it written that there must be conflict between the United States and China.

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.

Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

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.

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

In America, there’s a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world.

I think it is important for Europe to understand that even though I am president and George Bush is not president, Al Qaeda is still a threat.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

More understand China, then more people will have interest in China and more people will come to China to visit us because I am a tourist ambassador.

The common question that gets asked in business is, ‚why?‘ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, ‚why not?‘

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

War is the business of barbarians.

I got an album concept called ‚Exit Strategy,‘ that might be one of my last ones. It’s a term they use in business when you build companies. You create an exit strategy as you make a company. You don’t wait till you’re five years in it; you create a exit strategy as you make the company.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

In Romania, American forces have found a devoted NATO ally.

There’s not going to be a World War III, because there is no one to have World War III with.

There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France – I don’t know about England – that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.

There’s no point in starting a business unless you’re going to make a dramatic difference to other people’s lives. So if you’ve got an idea that’s gonna make a big difference to other people’s lives, then just get on and do it.

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

Egypt is the second-largest recipient over a long period of U.S. military and economic aid. Israel is first.

The United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative.

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you’re flying high at first, but it won’t take long before you feel the impact.

There is obviously a gap between the public’s perception of the role of U.S. foreign policy and the elite’s perception.

I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board.

The many questions about the bombing of Yugoslavia by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation – meaning primarily the United States – come down to two fundamental issues: ‚What are the accepted and applicable ‚rules of world order,‘ and how do these apply in the case of Kosovo?‘

If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.

An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.

Paris is always a good idea.

The ways of the Lord are different from the ways of man. Man’s ways remove people from office or business when they grow old or become disabled. But man’s ways are not and never will be the Lord’s ways.

Quite frankly, Russian aggression in Ukraine and its illegal occupation of Crimea remind us that we still have a good deal more work to do to guarantee the strategic vision of a Europe whole, free and at peace.

America isn’t Congress. America isn’t Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.

The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

We didn’t become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn’t come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn’t do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.

The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts.

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

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

The Bush Administration’s failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.

I’ve got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I’ve got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.

Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.