Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" I like to tell small business owners and entrepreneurs, 'I get it. I have your back on this. I understand about regulation. I understand how taxes are taxing. I understand what it is like not to be able to borrow money when you need it.' "

Related Quotes:

" Without truth, trust is lost. The ACA could not have been passed were it not for the repeated assertions, which proved to be false, that Americans who liked their health plans and their doctors could keep them. "

Linda McMahon

Lost

Plans

Health

" I have said from the beginning, I would spend what it would take for the people of Connecticut to know who I am and what I stand for. "

" Truly landmark pieces of legislation - including the Social Security Act, Medicare, and the Kennedy and Reagan tax reductions - historically have garnered strong support from both parties. The ACA did not. "

" When I was asked if I supported merging SBA into Commerce, I really wasn't focused on SBA or Commerce; I was focused on the concept of merging agencies, or reducing duplicative programs, so that we could reduce those costs. I am a firm believer that SBA needs to be a stand-alone agency. "

" I have learned it's not how you fall but how you get up that truly matters. "

Linda McMahon

You

I Have Learned

" It was acting, and WWE is the longest-running weekly episodic program in television. Sure, there are story lines that are better than others. "

" My parents' greatest wish was that I graduated from college. Neither of my parents had a college education, and they really wanted me to have one. "

" Let me just go on record and say this: I am not for decreasing the minimum wage. "

Linda McMahon

Minimum Wage

Say

" You cant be afraid to take a risk. You can't be afraid to take a risk because you think you might fail. "

" I think women are not as hung up on the testosterone thing. They're more collaborative. They multitask better, and I think they're more results-oriented. They just want to cut to the chase and get it done. "

" Small business people are people with goals and values that can't be calculated on a profit and loss statement. "

" I was a tomboy. And one of my first recollections of great success was playing baseball with the boys. "

" I found when talking with many other women that they sometimes are more reluctant to toot their own horn, to talk about their success. They have to be more confident in doing that. That is not always the case, but there is that element that women don't put forth who they are. "

" You know, the state of Connecticut is... sometimes it's a provincial state. And I've been working very hard to get the endorsement of the people within our state, and ultimately, the ultimate endorsement is from the voters in the state of Connecticut. "

" We went bankrupt one time and lost everything. When I tell that story at my Women's Leadership LIVE conferences, people are shocked. I mean, our house was auctioned off and the car repossessed in the driveway. We had to start over again. "

" Optimism is the ultimate definition of a leader. A leader has to look optimistically at what is ahead while not ignoring the challenges that must be overcome. Those challenges are in government, politics, world leadership, and even in community life. "

" The small businesses that I've talked to have consistently said that the cost of health care is one of the things that they need the most help with. "

" It is past time for Democrats and Republicans to join together to create a bipartisan coalition for courage and common sense. "

" I'm not going to take any special interest money or any PAC money... when I get to Washington I want to be the voice for the people of Connecticut and not owe special favors. "

" Being under the political spotlight is far different than anything I'd experienced before. Every word is a critical word. Sometimes you really aren't allowed to get your full thought out. A lot of it is about having a 30-second sound bite. "

" I'm going to continue to talk about what is important to the people of Connecticut which is jobs, getting people back to work, the economy. "

" The minimum wage now in our country, I think we've set that, so there are a lot of people have benefited from it in our country, but I think we ought to review how much it ought to be, and whether or not we ought to have increases in the minimum wage. "

" It's unfortunate, you know, that you can't change people's - habits, their personal habits. "

" It always is a battle for a Republican in Connecticut, even one who's a moderate like I am, and one who's an independent thinker. "

Linda McMahon

I Am

Always

" WWE is a company that produces fiction. It's a soap opera that runs 52 weeks a year without reruns. "

" I certainly think you could look at the business side of how WWE was run, which was as a conservative company with little debt and strong cash balance. "

" We want to create more jobs. We want to qualify more lenders and expand lending markets. But also, I want a very different SBA - it's not your father's SBA. I want to modernize it and reposition it so when people think about jobs, they think about how the Small Business Administration would really be helpful. "

" I've made a payroll. I know what it's like to execute a business plan. I know what it's like to expect the proper return on investment... and I know you can't spend your way out of debt. "

" I remember the early days when every month I had to decide whether I should continue to lease a typewriter or if I could finally afford to buy it. Yes, that $12 a month really made a difference in our budget. "

" I have kids in high school that don't know how to balance a checkbook. We need to have that fundamental understanding of economics as we move forward to develop the next generation of young people. "