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It struck me that most businesses have less than 100 employees, but most payroll services were going after bigger companies.

There isn't one thing the federal government does that anybody in Big Business would emulate, at least not in the profit sector.

The number of business leaders who asked me to lower their taxes can be counted on one hand.

If there are only three guys at the top of the organization handling things, it's the definition of a bankrupt company. In creating leaders without titles, we are going to have organizations with people at the helm putting forth their best.

It takes four private-sector jobs to support every public-sector employee.

CEOs of large corporations earn 400 times what their workers make. That is not what America is supposed to be about.

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

If I could create one job in the private sector by helping to grow a business, that would be one more than Congress has created in the last six months.

Furthermore, and a point I really want to make very strongly, is that this is the first Administration since Herbert Hoover not to create a net gain in jobs in the course of its Administration.

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.