If you are just safe about the choices you make, you don't grow.

We are the purpose of the economy, not its fuel.

I believe Government should encourage competition, NOT prop up the weak when the going gets tough.

Focus on growth, not on status.

We need a reset in the way the economy grows around the world.

The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.

I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people.

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

Rather than limiting population growth, they should concentrate on improving the economic status of the people in general and the people at the bottom half in particular. Governments and population agencies are not putting nearly as much effort into changing the quality of life of the poor as they put into their scare tactics, such as pressuring illiterate men and women to physically remove their ability to procreate. UN

governments don't produce economic growth people do.

Any system that penalizes success and accomplishment is wrong. Any system that discourages work, discourages productivity, discourages economic progress, is wrong. If, on the other hand, you reduce tax rates and allow people to spend or save more of what they earn, they’ll be more industrious; they’ll have more incentive to work hard, and money they earn will add fuel to the great economic machine that energizes our national progress. The result: more prosperity for all — and more revenue for government. A few economists call this principle supply-side economics. I just call it common sense.

Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.

So government policy should be directed, not to imposing more burdensome requirements on employers, but to following policies that encourage profits, that encourage employers to expand, to invest in newer and better machines to increase the productivity of workers —