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.

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

Even if the government spends itself into bankruptcy and the economy still does not recover, Keynesians can always say that it would have worked if only the government had spent more.

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.

Fifty years of isolating Cuba had failed to promote democracy, setting us back in Latin America. That’s why we restored diplomatic relations, opened the door to travel and commerce, and positioned ourselves to improve the lives of the Cuban people.

Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. It’s my nature.

Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.

I’ll never tell a lie. I’ll never make a misleading statement. I’ll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I’ll never avoid a controversial issue.

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

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

If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

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

If… many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

Eventually, all companies are replaced.

I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other – and we still are.

My 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.

I’m always amazed at how many people assume a business has to lose money before it makes money.

But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing.

Trust is central to an economy that works.

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.

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

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

Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night’s date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn’t think of looking at another woman.

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

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

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

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

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.

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance… you thrive on that.

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.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.

Demonstrate to the world, there is ‚No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy‘ than a U.S. Marine.

It’s safe to say headphones is a good business.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man’s pride in his work.

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

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

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.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

To me, we’re marketing hope.

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

First, 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?

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

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

It’s important that we invest in America – literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can’t let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another.

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

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

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.

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV.

Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.

I’ve found that men I’ve dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I’ve found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren’t competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been… challenging.

It shows ‚us vs. them‘, and I’m on the ‚us‘ side.

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

Proud 2 Pay – that’s something that distinguishes me, that’s something that defines me, and we’re going to keep that going.