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.

When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.

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.

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.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

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.

Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.

No one saw the recession coming.

I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake’s important.

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

Trust is central to an economy that works.

There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive.

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

Competitions are a business, first and foremost.

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

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

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

For 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.

Throughout my years in business, I discovered something. I would always ask why you do things. The answers that I would invariably get are: ‚Oh, that’s just the way things are done around here.‘ Nobody knows why they do what they do. Nobody thinks very deeply about things in business.

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

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.

Unfortunately, in a recession, the people who suffer the most aren’t the rich, but the wanna-be rich and the poor.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.

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

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.

I’ve actually taken companies public, I’ve actually busted companies, I’ve actually gone broke.

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.

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.

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

Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs.

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

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.

I like the city. I like the concrete. I like big business. I like being a CEO of my own company and having a lot of responsibilities. At the same time, when I can go off with a backpack or off on a surfboard or even off on a run somewhere in the woods – that’s where I’m really happy.

Well, I think that there’s a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you’re likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

Even if the economy crashes, we will still burn oil.

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

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.

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.

The thing most people don’t pick up when they become an entrepreneur is that it never ends. It’s 24/7.

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

No 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.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

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.

I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.

We get paid for bringing value to the market place.

When you bring in multi-brand retail items into the country, you’re not just bringing the products, but you’re also harming local manufacturers.

You know, if you are kind of rich, the best thing is that you don’t have to think about money. The best thing you can buy with money is freedom, time. I don’t know how much I earn a year. I have no idea. I don’t know how much I pay in taxes.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

I’m spending a year dead for tax reasons.

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

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.

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

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone’s guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.

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

I think business has to be stupider. I want to do really straightforward, stupid business – just talk to me like a 4-year-old. And I refuse to negotiate. I do not negotiate. I can collaborate. But I’m an artist, so as soon as you negotiate, you’re being compromised.

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

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.