Business Quotes by Barack Obama

If you've got a business - you didn't build that.

— Barack Obama

21st century businesses will rely on American science, technology, research and development.

— Barack Obama

If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.

— Barack Obama

We should support…every risk-taker and entrepreneur who aspires to become the next Steve Jobs.

— Barack Obama

Over the past five years, our businesses have created more than 11 million new jobs.

— Barack Obama

Lets prove that there is no better place to do business than the United States of America.

— Barack Obama

After years of grueling recession, our businesses have created over six million new jobs.

— Barack Obama

Lets cut in half the energy wasted by our homes and businesses over the next 20 years.

— Barack Obama

I will eliminate capital-gains taxes for the small businesses and the startups that will create the high-wage, high-tech jobs of tomorrow

— Barack Obama

We''ll build new ties of trade and of commerce, culture and education that unleash the potential of the Iraqi people.

— Barack Obama

There's something about these steps [in Oval Office] and thinking about everybody who's walked here and all the business that's been done…

— Barack Obama

[Young people] are showing enormous and entrepreneurship and working with each other across borders.

— Barack Obama

Im also issuing a new goal for America: lets cut in half the energy wasted by our homes & businesses over the…

— Barack Obama

Upgrade what businesses need: ports to move goods, pipelines to withstand a storm, modern schools worthy of our children.

— Barack Obama

What we have to do moving forward is to make sure that small businesses that account for most of the job growth…

— Barack Obama

Lets do more to help the entrepreneurs and small business owners who create most new jobs in America.

— Barack Obama

Immigration keeps this country young, it keeps it dynamic, we have entrepreneurs and strivers who come here and are willing to take…

— Barack Obama

We were still able to see the phone records of a potential terrorist cause, we held them, now you have to hope…

— Barack Obama

It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st…

— Barack Obama

Entrepreneurs embody the promise of America: the idea that if you have a good idea and are willing to work hard and…

— Barack Obama

So don't get cynical. Cynicism didn't put a man on the moon. Cynicism has never won a war, or cured a disease,…

— Barack Obama

America isn't Congress. America isn't Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage…

— Barack Obama

In order for us to compete with China, we've also got to make sure, though, that we're taking - taking care of…

— Barack Obama

“To the furniture worker's child in North Carolina who wants to become a doctor or a scientist, an engineer or an entrepreneur,…

— Barack Obama

I believe that the free enterprise system is the greatest engine of prosperity the world's ever known. I believe in self-reliance and…

— Barack Obama

“And I saw just the other day, in Mentor, Ohio, where a father told the story of his 8-year-old daughter, whose long…

— Barack Obama

I believe that we do best when the middle class is doing well. And by giving them those tax cuts, they had…

— Barack Obama

Rather take that moral sense and apply it to the particulars of a job that is going to test those ethical and…

— Barack Obama

In my heart I know you didn't come here just for me, you came here because you believe in what this country…

— Barack Obama

It ought to concern every person, because it is a debasement of our common humanity. It ought to concern every community, because…

— Barack Obama

That is the true genius of America, a faith in the simple dreams of its people, the insistence on small miracles. That…

— Barack Obama

When you were in Massachusetts, small business development ranked about 48th out of 50.

— Barack Obama

You can't manage [country] the way you would manage a family business.

— Barack Obama

We may have different backgrounds, but we believe in the same dream that says this is a country where anything's possible. No…

— Barack Obama

The problem with all these tired excuses for inaction is that it suggests a fundamental lack of faith in American business and…

— Barack Obama

My hope is that more and more investors around the world see an opportunity to do business in Greece.

— Barack Obama

The problem is that, over time, big pieces of business that have to get done without leadership from Washington, don't get done.

— Barack Obama

Our celebration of initiative and enterprise, our insistence on hard work and personal responsibility, are constants in our character.

— Barack Obama

I believe that the free enterprise system is the greatest engine of prosperity the world's ever known.

— Barack Obama

Leaders from business, labor, law enforcement and faith communities agree the time has come to pass comprehensive immigration reform.

— Barack Obama