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.
Jocko WillinkWe 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.
Barack ObamaThe problem with being an employee or self-employed is you pay the highest taxes.
Robert KiyosakiIf you’re in this business and you are scared, then you better do something else.
Karl LagerfeldTo me, we’re marketing hope.
Joel OsteenFreedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
Martin Luther King, Jr.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.
Kevin HartPricey oil makes clear that wealth really is energy in various forms.
Robert KiyosakiI’m spending a year dead for tax reasons.
Douglas AdamsYou 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.‘
Joe BidenFor 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.
Joe BidenMr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.
Andrew CarnegieMy business is to prevent the future.
Ray BradburyIf 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.
Ray BradburyIf you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.
Barack ObamaWhen President Obama speaks about raising taxes on the rich, he speaks about high-income employees and small business owners, not entrepreneurs who build big businesses.
Robert KiyosakiThe demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.
Friedrich NietzscheYou 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.
Dale CarnegieIf you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.
Richard BransonLet me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.
Herbert HooverNobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we’ve got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.
Barack ObamaCapitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.
Bill GatesThe first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
Thomas SowellWe Conservatives hate unemployment.
Margaret ThatcherThe very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
Noam ChomskyA live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It’s my favorite part of the business, live concerts.
Elvis PresleyTrust is central to an economy that works.
Stephen CoveyGovernment’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Ronald ReaganIf anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end – people like myself – should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we’ve ever had it.
Warren BuffettEvery time the Fed implements ‚quantitative easing,‘ a.k.a. printing more money, two things go up: taxes and inflation. When taxes and inflation go up, more jobs are lost.
Robert KiyosakiFood Stamp recipients didn’t cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did.
Barack ObamaDeflation isn’t good, and inflation is easier to cure than deflation.
Robert KiyosakiIndia’s trade deficit is because of excess of import over exports.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamLife is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
Helen KellerTo keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin‘.
DJ KhaledA holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.
Will RogersPercentage margins don’t matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that.
Jeff BezosThe Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.
Fidel CastroI don’t think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don’t think they know how to run a trailer park.
Billy GrahamThere can be economy only where there is efficiency.
Benjamin DisraeliIt’s safe to say headphones is a good business.
DJ KhaledYou can’t have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil.
Bill GatesSkype actually does get a fair bit of revenue.
Bill GatesSpaceX 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.
Elon MuskTo turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.
Steve JobsIf you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it’s a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.
Christopher HitchensThe worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly human goal.
Pope FrancisWhen 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.
BonoDon’t go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you’ll land in trouble too big for you.
J. R. R. TolkienReal art has been… what’s the word? Kidnapped? No, that’s not it. But, OK, kidnapped by business.
Vivienne WestwoodI like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.
David ByrneUnquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
H. L. MenckenI 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.
Barack ObamaNow you have a choice: we can give more tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, or we can start rewarding companies that open new plants and train new workers and create new jobs here, in the United States of America.
Barack ObamaIn the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
Warren BuffettThe United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.
Fidel CastroWomen are the engine driving the growth in California’s economy. Women make California’s economy unique.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerWar is the business of barbarians.
Napoleon BonaparteSo, for example, a country was into recession right after I was sworn in, a dot-com bust had taken place. Then the attacks of September the 11th, and then of course the great financial meltdown in the -the fundamental question facing any presidency is how do you deal with the hand you’re dealt?
George W. BushI 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.
Warren Buffett