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Quotes by Businessman

"You don't have a very motivated working class, it starts to affect the dynamics of the economy. If workers are disenchanted and disenfranchised, productivity losses will go along with that."

"In order to fix Social Security, we must restructure it so that we continue to provide for our Nation's seniors that are approaching retirement age, but allow for younger taxpayers to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in private accounts."


"Alleviating poverty would be the Bank's overarching objective."

"It is time for us to focus on the issues that bring us together as a nation. Supporting parents' capacity to raise their children with the love and resources they need is simply the right thing to do."

"Trillions of dollars every day are being exchanged around the world in all of the financial markets."


"Judgment of the people in the situation is not helpful. How can you help them is the question."


"I don't have the insight with the Longhorns that I do with the two teams that I own, but as a fan and reading the sports pages, I'm bullish about the Longhorns."

"We provide many options in many product areas that they seem to want to adopt, and that's working well for us."

"We talked about the Internet and Wikipedia and how facts and history are being collectively created online."

"It's one of the most important things at the end of the day, being able to say no to an investment."

"At the same time, as you know, unless you are a comic book reader, Daredevil is not a known thing."
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"I was the candidate first time a Green or any progressive third party has ever been in a national televised debate. I was in five of them. And the response from the public was overwhelming."


"It should strengthen investors' confidence. This is done through transparency, high quality financial reports, and a standardized economic market. This is not just for China, but also for the world market as a whole."

"It all comes back to the basics. Serve customers the best-tasting food at a good value in a clean, comfortable restaurant, and they'll keep coming back."


"I think we'll still be a family restaurant, we'll be contemporary, we'll be lifestyle, we won't be old, we won't be 60 years old in the view of the consumer."

"Our profile was pretty low, deliberately so. Our constituents were a relatively small audience."

"I was deeply concerned then, and have become more concerned since, that unless we can deal with the questions of development and the questions of poverty, there's no way that we're going to have a peaceful world for our children."


"One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others, you will build up yourself."

"I agree that it is not just the extremists who harbor bad thoughts or engage in bad acts, but they are usually the source of the polarization and try to keep education and communication of the main stream from moving forward."


"Our new attitude is how can we put you in front of our customer."

"Well I just figure any man who risks his neck to save a dog's life isn't going to kill someone for gold teeth."

"I don't think that anybody should be suspended for life for anything, other than murder. How is it helping someone to say, 'You're done forever, your life's over'?"


"If I write in my name to the agents of England and France residing in Asia and inform them that Japan is ready to make a commercial treaty with their countries, the number of steamers will be reduced from fifty to two or three."

"I believe there are so many other disciplines and themes that we still haven't explored yet. It's infinite what we can apply our creativity to."

"Our approach was very simple. It was about creating a universal language. A show that will be attractive toward every people coming from all over the world. And that was a big thing."


"We're delighted to be working with Apple to offer fans a new and innovative way to experience our wildly popular shows."

"The problems in California have been that it's been very difficult to site and build new power plants."

"Everyone wants to talk about it, and right now music, flat-panel televisions, a whole host of new handheld devices are fun to talk about and very exciting to look at."

"I believe the two biggest mistakes made by the Founders were giving Federal judges life-time appointments and permitting them to be confirmed without the agreement of two-thirds of the members of the United States Senate."

"My strength is coming up with two outs in the last of the ninth."

"Procrastination is opportunity's assassin."

"I am very excited to be supporting one of the world's most visionary efforts to seek basic answers to some of the fundamental question about our universe and what other civilisations may exist elsewhere."

"You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it."

"When I was a teenager in the late 30's and early 40's, electronics wasn't a word. You were interested in radio if you were interested in electronics."

"Attending that Convention and talking with those people and many others convinced me that I should become a blogger in my efforts to reform the government and uphold the integrity of the Constitution and the laws made in furtherance thereof."

"In the beginning there was nothing and God said 'Let there be light', and there was still nothing but everybody could see it."


"The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957."


"Well, today people have to be self-reliant if they want a secure retirement income."

"The technology at the leading edge changes so rapidly that you have to keep current after you get out of school. I think probably the most important thing is having good fundamentals."

"I don't want to be in the Hall of Fame. I don't think owners should be."

"How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking."

"Second, we're spending a huge amount of money on technology so that everyone can check out laptops and portable phones. We're spending more money to write our existing information into databases or onto CD-ROM."

"Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience."

"Customers want good value, but they care more than ever how food and clothing products are made."
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