All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It's only a question of degree.

I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.

The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.

The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.

I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.

Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.

Remember what we're looking at. Gold is a currency. It is still, by all evidence, a premier currency, that no fiat currency, including the dollar, can match.

When trust is lost, a nation's ability to transact business is palpably undermined.

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.

Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world. Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.

To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.

Don't let what you thought you were yesterday keep you from becoming what you're meant to be today.

I suppose that having lost true love once, I never wanted to replace it with a lukewarm approximation that would only serve to make me remember it forever.

The word love has always tasted like the scent of fresh ink and soft paper to me. Like a newly written poem.

All of the jobs have gone away to satisfy the stockholders, so that's where the economy has gone. These major multinational corporations do not see their futures in America.

Advertising justifies its existence when used in the public interest-it is much too powerful a tool to use solely for commercial purposes.

You created this moment from what you thought and felt three days ago. What you are thinking and feeling right now will create your next moments. You cool with that?

So great was the noise during the day that I used to lie awake at night listening to silence.

You can love somebody and it can change your life but it doesn't mean that you're necessarily right to be together forever, but that love will change your life forever. And that's okay.

I didn't know what we would be selling in the year 2000 but whatever it was we would be selling the most of it.

The inconveniences we faced within this state are minor compared to... New Orleans.