“The more government takes in taxes, the less incentive people have to work.”

I don’t hire a lot of number-crunchers, and I don’t trust fancy marketing surveys. I do my own surveys and draw my own conclusions.

A brand is two words: the ‘Promise’ you telegraph, and the ‘Experience’ you deliver.

Winning is important, but survival is even more important. If you don’t survive, you don’t get to fight the next battle.

I am very, very proud to say that I am pro-life.

You have to leave your comfort zone.

What’s the point of having great knowledge and keeping them all to yourself?

Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough.

Be open to new information and ideas.

We must understand that governments cannot create real jobs. Only entrepreneurs can do that.

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

The point is that you can’t be too greedy.

Show me someone without an ego, and I’ll show you a loser.

My motto is: Always get even. When somebody screws you, screw them back in spades.

You don’t reward failure by promoting those responsible for it, because all you get is more failure.

I like to think of the word FOCUS as Follow One Course Until Successful.

Everything in life is luck.

Real change never occurs from the top on down, [but] always from the bottom on up.

We need a government that stands up for working people. That is what we promised to deliver and that is what we must do.

The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.

It is the responsibility of anyone involved in politics to always think of what Japan can do to contribute more to the peace and stability

We’ve got to fight back, and the first step forward is to vote.

It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government: the ballot.

None of what Barack Obama is doing or wants to do to this country is anything the rest of the world hasn’t seen before and already failed at.

It is my belief that there is a greater understanding than ever that women need to be equal participants in our homes, in our societies, in our governments, and in our workplaces.