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.

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

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

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin‘ on, I then got the money, and gone.

I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I’m not based in Monaco… I think my country helped me.

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

When you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up. Once you get to the point where Hollywood sees that you create results, then the demand for you becomes higher.

The problem with being an employee or self-employed is you pay the highest taxes.

When I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy. I didn’t set out to build a business empire… For me, building a business is all about doing something to be proud of, bringing talented people together and creating something that’s going to make a real difference to other people’s lives.

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.

I’m an entrepreneur. I’m a young mogul. I’m blessed.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

People invest in businesses that they believe have the leadership, mission and team to grow and operate profitably.

Even people on the liberal side are starting to worry about going off a fiscal cliff.

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

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

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.

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

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Greece has been, in many ways, a partially dysfunctional society. For example, the wealthy barely pay taxes… to an extent, that’s true elsewhere, including the United States, but it’s been pretty extreme in Greece.

Are we a nation that educates the world’s best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?

The dollar has lost over 90 percent of its value since the Fed was created.

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.

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.

Leadership is influence.

Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it’s not going to get the business.

We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we’re getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We’re making things again.

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.

The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

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.

Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

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.

No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn’t sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours‘ writing. Nothing.

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.

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

I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together.

To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn’t that complicated. I wouldn’t want to put it on my business card.

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

The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.

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.

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

And the cornerstone of my economic policies, when I first got elected, was cutting taxes on everybody on who paid taxes.

What is a danger is that we stay stuck in a new normal where unemployment rates stay high, people who have jobs see their incomes go up, businesses make big profits. But they’re learned to do more with less, and so they don’t hire.

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

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

If you like a person you say ‚let’s go into business together.‘ Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females).

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of – of American capitalism.

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.‘

I do believe in the energy and the productivity of the American business world.

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

Football is big business – you can’t get away from it. But you have to separate that side from the playing.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.