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.

I 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.

Over a 10-year period, 99 out of 100 new entrepreneurs will fail. Only one will be left standing as others get pushed out of the market or burn out from working so hard. It’s really sad.

I don’t keep people around me that aren’t family. You don’t get to stay. Unless you’re eating at the table with us, you’re not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

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

We Conservatives hate unemployment.

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels – men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

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

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

Tariffs 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.

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

I think, because I started Virgin when I was a teenager, it has become a part of me, like my family, and I am motivated by ambition for it, almost as if it were a child.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

The 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.

It’s been wonderful for me, and I feel so privileged to have fans that are that loyal.

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.

India’s trade deficit is because of excess of import over exports.

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.

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.

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

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.

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

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.

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue.

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

The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.

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

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.

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.

Although I don’t like the way the Chinese do business, I continue to do business in China. I have to. They’re the next world power.

Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

When you find a guy who is powerful, a big father figure, you latch onto him immediately.

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

I love big business!

Every nation has to follow a certain policy: Commercial, trade, various other types of policies.

True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

Every successful businessman will have experienced set-backs and failures – they’re lying if they say they haven’t. Virgin has had some tremendously successful businesses and some that have not quite worked out. Virgin Cola springs to mind – the product wasn’t distinct enough from Coca-Cola.

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.

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

Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

I’m in this business to be creative – I’ll even diminish it and say to be a content provider.

Any time an investment company has to spend heavily on advertising, it’s probably a bad business in which to invest.

I’ve never dropped anyone I believed in.

I have no definite talent or trade, and how I stay alive is largely a matter of magic.

In business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas.

In 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.

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.

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

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.

From 1945 to 1974, the Western world – including America – was more socialistic than capitalistic, more pro-labor than pro-business.

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.

When I jumped off a roof in Cannes in a bee costume, I looked ridiculous. But this is my business; I have to humiliate myself.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.