Warren Buffett Quotes

I believe that our economy is not a one- or two-percent growth economy; I believe it can grow at four percent, and we can revitalize our economy if we do the right things.

In the five years since the end of the Great Recession, the economy has made considerable progress in recovering from the largest and most sustained loss of employment in the United States since the Great Depression.

I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.

The most important thing for small businesses is getting the economy back on its feet. That - the key driver of small business activity is demand for their product, and that is what we are trying to do, getting the economy back on its feet. That's far more important than other factors.

The fact is that the economy is really posed for the kind of recovery that people can see and understand.

As America's head coach, President Obama needs to make some big and smart adjustments to jump-start economic growth and business investment, stimulate job creation, and get wages up for ordinary Americans.

Our economy is creating jobs and giving businesses the conditions they need to invest and succeed.

A growth economy is a must.

Donald J. Trump has the good fortune of taking office as the economy is finally recovering from the 2008 crisis.

I think we can create an environment where America can kind of get back on its economic feet.

Without public investment, without families spending, without cheap credit, the economy won't recover.

During the slow recovery after the Great Recession, inflation was very low, and it took us a while to get it back moving up.

We've got to get things done. We've got an economy that is stabilized, but not moving ahead.

Small businesses have played an important role in fueling past economic recoveries.

Doing nothing and shrinking spending may save us public money in the short term but could cost us a great deal more over time as the recession takes hold for much longer.

Surely, the best and most effective measure is to get the economy moving and shorten the period of recession or slowdown. That's the rationale for Gordon Brown's 'fiscal stimulus' and it sounds like a good one to me.

When you look at the state of the economy right now, you have to set a priority. And my top priority is the deficit of jobs and economic growth, and especially this perception that the United States could be falling behind especially Asian economies.

I mean, the reality is unemployment today - over 14 million Americans are unemployed. That's exactly what it was a year ago. I mean, this - the American people know we can't borrow and spend and bail our way back to a growing economy.

To get anything done, Obama has to be seen as having winning economy - which isn't easy.

As a businessman, I know President Obama understands what it takes to spark economic growth, because I have seen him in action.

Three years ago, this week, a newly elected President Obama faced the American people and he said, look, if I can't turn this economy around in three years, I'll be looking at a one-term proposition, and we're here to collect! You know the results. It's been 35 months of unemployment above 8 percent.

Prosperity comes from the private sector.

I think the ethos for Gov. Romney is to use a whole variety of policies, of which tax policy is one, to try to raise the rate of growth. We've had a recovery from the financial crisis that would be well below what one might normally expect for a recovery from such a deep recession. And to counteract that we need better tax policy.

We have not recovered all that we lost in the Bush recession. That's why we need to continue to move forward.

In his first year in office, President Obama pulled us back from the brink of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression and worked to lay a new foundation for economic growth. The president identified three key strategies to build that lasting prosperity: innovation, investment, and education.