Businessman Quotes

They call me racist too just because I disagree with a President who happens to be black. You are not racists - you are patriots.

Stupid people are ruining America.

I am an American. Black. Conservative. I don't use African-American, because I'm American, I'm black and I'm conservative. I don't like people trying to label me. African- American is socially acceptable for some people, but I am not some people.

It's time to get real, folks. Hope and change ain't working. Hope and change is not a solution. Hope and change is not a job.

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.

Don't blame Wall Street, don't blame the big banks. If you don't have a job and you are not rich, blame yourself!

Most of the people who are in elective office in Washington, D.C., they have held public office before. How's that workin' for you?

I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver, and I believe we should cut the salaries of senators and congressmen 10 percent until they balance the budget. I call that conservative common sense.

But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life.

You cannot exist as a $20 billion company with speculation.

To be powerful in South America, you have to be transparent and you have to have a very clean reputation. Transparency for me today is a magic word in South America. Power comes from transparency and a track record of execution.

I was educated to think maybe Brazil works, maybe it doesn't. But I decided I am going to make this country work for my children. I am investing all my effort now in making Brazil a great country.

I can tell you that today 99% of my investments are in Brazil and will remain here.

Finding oil is a multidisciplinary science. You need a lot of people - statisticians, engineers, and geologists, of course. And what I have learned in the past 30 years is that I read people better than I read books.

What I learned from my father is to think big.

I am not a member of the CIA or any other intelligence agency.

A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Never follow the crowd.

If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong.

Always do one thing less than you think you can do.

Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.

When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.

Two things are bad for the heart - running up stairs and running down people.

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.

Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.

Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.