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Business Quotes by Barack Obama

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Barack Obama points to how government programs can spark new jobs and how investors can find chance in places like Greece. He warns that weak oversight lets dishonest firms thrive and that immigration brings fresh entrepreneurs. He notes that many businesses owe their success to others and that recession‑era growth added millions of jobs.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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We invest in early childhood education. We invest additional job training dollars. We make sure that we've got a strong research and…

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We created a whole lot of millionaires to boot. Businesses did just fine. And you know there are plenty of patriotic, successful…

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We do have a difference, though, when it comes to definitions of small business. Under, under my plan, 97 percent of small…

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In the absence of sound oversight,responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions…

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The reason this is important is because by doing that, we cannot only reduce the deficit, we cannot only encourage job growth…

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That's what the Affordable Care Act is all about. It's about filling the gaps in employer-based care so that when we lose…

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But to truly transform our economy, protect our security, and save our planet from the ravages of climate change, we need to…

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The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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…

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

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

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

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

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

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