“In recent times, every great empire has been built upon a manufacturing economy. The fall of these great empires has been the failure to remember this one fundamental fact.”
“Survival is the noblest of causes.”
“Making money and making the world a better place are not mutually exclusive concepts.”
“Rebuilding distressed companies is about the confluence of cash and creativity.”
“Our country's most valuable asset is human capital, and the most potent force of nature is people standing shoulder-to-shoulder, moving in one direction.”
“The key components of a successful turnaround are rationalization and innovation.”
“Patriarch buys companies that others toss on the heap of creative destruction.”
“Doing business with bad people is just bad business.”
“Truth is cold and hard but it is also the first step on the path to hope and salvation.”
“Healing the economy, assuaging anger and rebuilding America will begin with both truth and self-reflection.”
“We must all strive to be better people and to demonstrate those qualities that create light in a world gone dark.”
“If we do not employ people in this country, it will ultimately end badly for all of us.”
“Until job loss turns to job creation, we have little chance for a true economic recovery. Absent job creation, little else matters.”
“Main Street Americans have been battered by the perfect storm of falling employment, plummeting home prices and inability to access credit. And the storm has left so many homeless, jobless and hopeless.”
“We have become a culture of expectation rather than appreciation.”
“Cash is Queen.”
"America's greatest asset is human capital. Women, shoulder to shoulder, can be the driving force that leads to the economic healing and requisite transformation of our great nation."
"Americans hunger for authentic leaders who will provide them with truth and a path paved with direction and promise. Truth is cold and hard but it is also the first step towards hope and salvation."
“There is a huge disconnect between the stock market and the real economy.”