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" If we get a tax system that is competitive, we will hire people. When you hire people, you have to compete for labor. When you compete for labor, you drive wages. "

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" When I look at myself, I have been - really - a lucky American to end up where I am. "

" I did get introduced to the financial markets while I was in college. And I think I learned also how to sort of filter out all of the nonrational, or nonsensible, noise and sort of concentrate on what matters, and that's really what markets are about. "

" When our economy grows, it is good for the world. When the world economy grows, it is good for the United States. "

" Investment in America does not just benefit the United States - it benefits the world. "

" Every time you get into a new job, new location, you have an amazing opportunity in front of you. You get to play dumb for as long as people will allow you to play dumb. You get to ask all the dumb questions, you get to ask multiple people the dumb questions, and you get to make mistakes. That's how you stand out in the crowd. "

" The one thing you realize if you're going to be successful - no matter where you grew up, no matter what your educational level is - A. You can succeed, but B. The only way you're going to succeed is by outworking everyone else. "

" Have a goal. Know where you want to end up. Knowing where you want to end up is a lot easier than figuring out how to start and how to get there. You will figure out how to get there. Do not chart your career. Trust me; you do not want to chart your career. "

" I know from my experiences in life that educators had an enormous impact and influence on me. And fortunately or unfortunately, I had a lot of experience with different educators. "

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" As a patriotic American, I am reluctant to leave my post as director of the National Economic Council because I feel a duty to fulfil my commitment to work on behalf of the American people. "

" I would like to get the tax rate as low as possible so that businesses want to create jobs here. "

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" Education is important. And the difference of the zip code you grow up in or the zip code you are born in and how you turn out really isn't fair to the kids of our world. "

" The one trait in a lot of dyslexic people I know is that by the time we got out of college, our ability to deal with failure was very highly developed. And so we look at most situations and see much more of the upside than the downside. "

" We want to go back to a tax system where Americans sit down at their kitchen table, and they do their taxes on a single sheet of paper. That's what we should have in this America. "

" On the estate tax, if you look at the couple of groups who are the biggest advocates for repealing the estate tax, it really is the pass-through business, and it's the farmers. "

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" Many people are smart enough to know how to manage themselves out of the estate tax. "

" Our belief in free markets and a level playing field are values that make the world more free, fair, and prosperous. "

" Going to school is not really education. It's really who's in front of the classrooms and who's endearing themselves to the kids and who's making the kids want to learn and who's inspiring them to be curious about any topic in the world. "

" Gary Cohn doesn't care about the estate tax, I can guarantee you. I can guarantee you. "

" I don't think it's good for anyone to be in the public light - for negative reasons. "

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" We need to get a business tax system that makes us competitive to the rest of the world. "

" If someone's getting a tax cut, I'm not upset that they're getting a tax cut. I'm really not upset. "

" We do not believe that death should be a taxable event. "

" Keep yourself motivated. You've got to be motivated, you've got to wake up every day and understand what that day is about; you've got to have personal goals - short term goals, intermediate goals, and long term goals. Be flexible in getting to those goals, but if you do not have goals, you will not achieve them. "

" Citizens standing up for equality and freedom can never be equated with white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and the KKK. "