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.

More businesses should be following Apple’s stance in encouraging more investment in sustainability.

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you’re flying high at first, but it won’t take long before you feel the impact.

If you believe that tax policy has nothing to do with the economy, then you’re pretty much like a rock, only dumber.

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

I love big business!

Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

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

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world’s strongest economy.

During most of my freelancing, I made what I would have made in charge of the cafeteria at a pretty good junior-high school.

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.

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.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.

The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.

Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.

It isn’t enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflect this anger back into, ‚How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?‘

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.

Trust is central to an economy that works.

The immigration issue is, I recognize, one that generates a lot of passion, but it does not make sense for us to want to push talent out.

And what’s interesting, and I don’t think a lot of Americans understand this fact, is that, one, most new jobs are created by small businesses; two, most small businesses pay tax at the individual income tax, or many small businesses pay tax there.

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.

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

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.

If you’re worried about the deficit, pay attention to the fact that it’s almost all attributable to military spending and the totally dysfunctional health program.

Food Stamp recipients didn’t cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did.

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.

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.

Economy forced me to become a vegetarian, but I finally starting liking it.

For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing – stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses – makes more money for me than making movies.

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

Health is certainly extremely important, and we’ve done a number of things at Facebook to help improve global health and work in that area, and I am excited to do more there, too. But the reality is that it’s not an either-or. People need to be healthy and be able to have the Internet as a backbone to connect them to the whole economy.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

The real minimum wage is zero.

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

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.

By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.

Wealth – any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one’s wife’s sister’s husband.

My task over the last two years hasn’t just been to stop the bleeding. My task has also been to try to figure out how do we address some of the structural problems in the economy that have prevented more Googles from being created.

There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.

People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes.

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president – with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln – just in terms of what we’ve gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we’ve got a lot more work to do. And we’re gonna keep on at it.

When I was born, the economy wasn’t in a great state; it was the Depression, and my father had to be quick to try and find work.

SpaceX 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.

You can’t hire someone to practice for you.

We’re still in a recession. We’re not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

Clearly this is a tough economic time, and a lot of families are hurting. So when we talk to parents, we talk about small changes for kids and things that don’t cost extra money. Like adding water and eliminating sugary drinks and sodas. That’s going to save money right there. Or adding a few more vegetables.

Jobs are a centuries-old concept created during the Industrial Revolution. Despite the reality that we’re now deep in the Information Age, many people are studying for, or working at, or clinging to the Industrial Age idea of a safe, secure job.

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

In the middle of a recession, where we’re just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster.

I think my top salary was maybe in 1966. I made $17,000 and 11 of that came from selling other players‘ equipment.

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.