If you think of all the publicity about the terrible tragedy of Virginia Tech, we have a Virginia Tech in this country every day. It’s just spread across 50 states.
Central planning didn’t work for Stalin or Mao, and it won’t work for an entrepreneur either.
Well, we have to provide the world’s best schools. We certainly don’t have them, but that’s our objective.
Nobody’s going to elect me president of the United States.
I was a Democrat before I was a Republican before I became an independent and I never changed my principles.
I am what I am and, you know, I’m a very lucky guy.
To a contrarian like me, constant advice not to do something almost always starts me quickly down the risky, unpopular path.
The politics of partisanship and the resulting inaction and excuses have paralyzed decision-making, primarily at the federal level, and the big issues of the day are not being addressed, leaving our future in jeopardy.
I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven’t had any moral compass, who’ve just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they’re losers.
I know how to make decisions and stand up to the criticism every day.
If a hurricane strikes, we can blame the president for not being there; we can blame Congress and FEMA; we can blame the state governments; but in the end, it’s the mayors and the local city governments that have to be prepared for emergencies and be prepared to act.
Government caters to those screaming the loudest, regardless of what they’re screaming about. In business, it’s exactly the opposite! You invest more in the most successful departments, and less in those that aren’t performing.
In the game of life, when the final buzzer sounds, the only stat you carry with you is the number of assists you made.
I don’t know why you should be proud of something. It doesn’t make you any better or worse. You are what you are.
I think that all money can do is to get your message out. Unfortunately, we live in a world where you have to use mass media to communicate with the people, and it just costs an awful lot of money.
Many of America’s and New York’s sons and daughters are around the world fighting for the freedoms that the Statue of Liberty stands for.
Like Israel, New York City’s history has been defined by immigrants who come in search of freedom and the opportunity to build a better life. And like Israel, New York City has remained a target for terrorists who seek to destroy that freedom.
Buy what’s deliverable, not what could be.
The fact is, the most painful and tragic lesson of the 20th century was that regimes based on racial superiority and religious hatred can’t be trusted to keep their word to the international community.
When you go to Washington now, you can feel a sense of fear in the air – the fear to do anything, or say anything, that might affect the polls, or give the other side an advantage, or offend a special interest.