Vladimir Putin Quotes

I have made revenue collection a frontline institution because it is the one which can emancipate us from begging. If we can get about 22% of GDP we should not need to disturb anybody asking for aid; instead of coming here to bother you, give me this, give me this, I shall come here to greet you, to trade with you.

Keep your shop, and your shop will keep you.

At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.

We haven't shed our engineering pragmatism, so we accomplish things in the simplest manner possible. It helps with budget, obviously. We're not getting rich off web video, and we're supporting two families with our income, so we need to keep as much of the budget to ourselves.

He is rich enough who has no wants.

Profit is one way that you can take pride in the way you publish things and insure that you can go on doing it.

A business which can bring itself to the point where it attracts the attention of money should be able to continue on its own feet without being financed.

A board member of mine used to say sales fix everything in a startup, and that is really true.

Let us come together and think of ways India does not have to import but we export to the world.

I feel very strongly about making work pay, about getting people transitioned from welfare to work. Get people skills they need, help they need, so they can get on the ladder of life.

Sales fixes everything.

I have very little debt to anybody. I don't need debt.

Let's say you're all worried about student-loan debt and you need to have steady income. That doesn't have to be your everything.

It is terrible to have to ask for anything ever. We wish we were something that needed nothing, like paint. But even paint needs repainting.

I'm just proud that I created something that helped me pay my bills because I was so flat broke. I was borrowing money from my mother to stay afloat, and that was kind of uncomfortable.

I've chosen never to go on welfare. I feel as though it is my responsibility to do what I can to provide for my children.

I'm not used to having a boss. I'm the boss. I don't need the money. I'm filthy f... rich!

It is much harder to become independent if you are wealthy than to become wealthy if you are independent.

It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.

The money is of no concern to me, whatsoever. I started out with nothing.

He is rich enough who does not want bread.

I don't have to be accountable to some authority, which is why I don't take federal funds. I don't want anyone's monies unless they're monies without strings attached. It's not that we don't need them.

A farm is a good thing, when it begins and ends with itself, and does not need a salary, or a shop, to eke it out.

I thought of singing and acting as a living-making. I was able to take care of myself and a few of my friends.

You must have some money if you are going to live simply. It need not be much, but you must have some.