Rick Harrison Quotes

The License Raj in India was a time when, to set up an industry, you needed a license. Which made the government an omnipresent and sort of all-pervasive authority.

The mixing of politics and business not only is detrimental to politics, as is frequently observed, but even much more so to business.

It is right to intervene when markets are not working and people are getting hurt.

The Nordic governments have adopted a market-friendly approach to regulation. Although they maintain regulations to protect workers, consumers and the environment, they balance those protections with a system that encourages entrepreneurship and flexibility by making it easy to start or close a business, to hire or fire employees, and to adjust work hours.

We’ve got to get the bad operators out of business so that the good operators can be rewarded for investing in safety.

Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country

The only thing wrong with student loans is that you have to pay them back.

I have always said that a bank's lending rates do not only depend on rate cuts - it is just one signal.

I'm the king of debt.

The history of antitrust law enforcement shows that successful antitrust prosecutions have often strengthened and brought vitality to extremely large companies and businesses.

Regardless of the industry, antitrust law is meant to benefit consumers - not competitors.

The attorney general of New York state has a special authority and responsibility to preserve the integrity of businesses and nonprofits in New York under the state's own laws as well as under the U.S. Constitution.

As the son of a small business owner, I know how regulatory overreach can stifle our economy and cost Americans jobs.

This is probably going to surprise people, but if you were to do a scan around the globe on public policy concerning our industry, you would probably have to conclude that the United States has the policy that has been, I believe, the most pro competition.

While trade agreements are negotiated in secrecy, behind-closed doors, we have learned enough from leaks to know that the result of passing TPA to 'fast track' these trade agreements would affect everything from food safety to environmental protection to consumer financial protections.

Do not enter into an agreement you cannot afford. Take precautions to avoid institutional loans with double-digit interest rates.

Remember this: debt is a form of bondage. It is a financial termite.

The federal government requires that its loans be paid back within 10 years of graduation, and Harvard has pegged its loans to the same 10-year timetable. Yet despite Harvard's low default rate, the idea of years of loan debt is daunting for some students even before it's time to pay back.

If you've got a mortgage, and you've got bills to pay, you might tend to do some stupid things.

Higher asset prices increase wealth and, with a lag, induce higher spending.

My grandfather was a pawnbroker, and when I was in first or second grade, my parents opened their own store. I probably learned to count by putting pawn tickets in numerical order in the back room of the shop.

I have heard firsthand from several small business owners about their struggle to borrow and their fear of taking on additional debt.

I'm an executive director at a company which gives out retail loans.

Originally in the United States, there were no laws regulating behavioral advertising. As a result, like in the Philippines, government has relied on industry self-regulation.

Financial Aid Office (FAO) administrators are scrambling to educate students on repaying loans, but a disparity in knowledge persists.