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 I started my last business, I didn’t receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can’t handle that pressure.

We get paid for bringing value to the market place.

The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

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?

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

Competitions are a business, first and foremost.

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.

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

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

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

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).

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

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

Nobody 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.

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

Working hard to earn more money and then giving it away in higher taxes isn’t financially intelligent, even if you do put some of it into a retirement account.

The one thing about the business of entertainment is that you have to learn patience.

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

Every 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.

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

If you’re in business or politics, you need to have an intense understanding of what’s going on around you.

Being beautiful is not so fun when you’re in a business with all men.

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.

When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his years in office, he was not particularly popular. He was more or less average. He severely harmed the American economy.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

I love big business!

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.

When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

Don’t go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you’ll land in trouble too big for you.

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’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.

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.

So, 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?

Now 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.

I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

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

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

To me, business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

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.

What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

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.

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 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.