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We're going to come out of Iran very quickly and it's going to be very strong one way the other whether it's a piece of paper or the very tough way. Okay, the very tough way is maybe the easier way,…

Donald Trump ·45th and 47th U.S. President ·Jun 2026

We have a great gentleman coming in, Kevin Walsh. He's going to do a fantastic job at the Fed. We're getting rid of too late.

Donald Trump ·45th and 47th U.S. President ·Jun 2026

In the old days, you know, if you had good job numbers, like great job numbers like they announced today, the stock market goes up. Today, everything is crazy. The whole world is crazy. So when you…

Donald Trump ·45th and 47th U.S. President ·Jun 2026

We're going to make sure that our farmers don't have to ring their hands at night because they're worried about paying the bills. We're doing everything we possibly can to make sure that people who…

Donald Trump ·45th and 47th U.S. President ·Jun 2026

We're going to come out of Iran very quickly and it's going to be very strong one way or the other whether it's a piece of paper or the very tough way. Okay, the very tough way is maybe the easier…

Donald Trump ·45th and 47th U.S. President ·Jun 2026

We have a great gentleman coming in, Kevin War. He's going to do a fantastic job at the Fed. We're getting rid of too late.

Donald Trump ·45th and 47th U.S. President ·Jun 2026

When you have great job numbers, the stock market goes down because they think interest rates will go up. And when interest rates go up, they stop inflation. Well, you know what else stops inflation?…

Donald Trump ·45th and 47th U.S. President ·Jun 2026

With the waiver, the waiver has done two things. It has kept overall global energy prices lower and you know the other thing it has done during World Bank IMF week many of the most vulnerable…

Scott Bessent ·Treasury Secretary ·Jun 2026

In October of 2025, President Trump asked me the how could he really turn the heat up on Russian Federation. And I said, 'You could do what no one else has do done. Sanction Luke Oil and Rosnft.' And…

Scott Bessent ·Treasury Secretary ·Jun 2026

The Biden administration was weak, weak, and weaker on Russia's sanctions. There were exemptions. If I were to score 0 to 10, the sanctions level was 3%. And then probably the worst national security…

Scott Bessent ·Treasury Secretary ·Jun 2026

You have to step back and think, are you willing to put a 500% tariff on China? because all all I all I've heard especially from the other side but many on our side were how tariffs are inflationary.…

Scott Bessent ·Treasury Secretary ·Jun 2026

Finally, to the great proud people of Iran. I say tonight that the hour of your freedom is at hand. Stay sheltered. Don't leave your home. It's very dangerous outside. Bombs will be dropping…

Donald Trump ·45th and 47th U.S. President ·Feb 2026

To the members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard. The armed forces and all of the police. I say tonight that you must lay down your weapons and have complete immunity. Or in the alternative, face,…

Donald Trump ·45th and 47th U.S. President ·Feb 2026

The Iranian regime seeks to kill the lives of courageous American heroes may be lost, and we may have casualties. That often happens in war. But we're doing this not for now. We're doing this for the…

Donald Trump ·45th and 47th U.S. President ·Feb 2026

It has always been the policy of the United States, in particular my administration, that this terrorist regime can never have a nuclear weapon. I'll say it again they can never have a nuclear weapon.

Donald Trump ·45th and 47th U.S. President ·Feb 2026

The United States military began major combat operations in Iran. Our objective is to defend the American people by eliminating imminent threats from the Iranian regime.

Donald Trump ·45th and 47th U.S. President ·Feb 2026

It's a war that should have never happened. Would have never happened if I was president. But I think I think that's going to get worked out.

Donald Trump ·45th and 47th U.S. President ·Jun 2026

I was never much of a fan of John Bolton. I never thought he was a smart person and he was a radical right in terms of war, not in terms of other things. He was he wanted to go to war with anybody…

Donald Trump ·45th and 47th U.S. President ·Jun 2026

We have more auto plants being built than we've ever had. We have more plants being built than we've ever All these numbers are good, but when the numbers are good, we should be allowed to grow, not…

Donald Trump ·45th and 47th U.S. President ·Jun 2026

I'd like to see lower interest rates because each point, think of this, is $600 billion. So, you know, you save hundreds of millions of dollars when you take one point off. Hundreds of millions of…

Donald Trump ·45th and 47th U.S. President ·Jun 2026

We embarked on a very significant journey to introduce something called Creative Cloud. The change there was we moved the business model from these upfront perpetual prices to anywhere from ten…

David Wadhwani ·President of Digital Media Business ADBE ·Jun 2016

I took over the digital media business at Adobe six years ago. The business at that time was about three billion dollars in the largest revenue stream in Adobe but it was also growing very slowly.…

David Wadhwani ·President of Digital Media Business ADBE ·Jun 2016

I believe based on what I see in the conversations that I've had is that the first half of next year might also be generally slow. You're talking 2016? 2016 yes might be generally slow but then…

David Wadhwani ·President of Digital Media Business ADBE ·Jun 2016

I was brought into this company to take it public and that's exactly what I intend to do. The financing that round 158 million that you refer to was one that allows us to invest in a couple key areas…

David Wadhwani ·President of Digital Media Business ADBE ·Jun 2016

Travel is one of the biggest industries in the world. Depending upon how you size it, it's the size of oil, maybe even larger and I think it's going to only grow and I think India is going to be one…

Brian Chesky ·Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Head of Community & Chairman of the Board ABNB ·May 2026

I think that it's actually increased demand. I don't think it's going to eliminate jobs. I think we'll eliminate a lot of the jobs we do today, the task. I think it's going to create more new jobs…

Brian Chesky ·Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Head of Community & Chairman of the Board ABNB ·May 2026

I think it's going to be a major part of our story for the next 10 20 years. My approach in India is to play the long game to really invest in the country to invest in the community and let everyone…

Brian Chesky ·Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Head of Community & Chairman of the Board ABNB ·May 2026

I think when people look at Airbnb on the surface, we're in the business of finding homes for travel. But I think there's a much bigger business which is the business of the trip. You know, you don't…

Brian Chesky ·Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Head of Community & Chairman of the Board ABNB ·May 2026

My prediction is that Tesla's long-term value will be a majority of long-term value will be Optimus. And that prediction I'm very confident of.

Elon Musk ·Co-Founder, Technoking of Tesla, Chief Executive Officer & Director TSLA ·May 2023

If you have a generalized humanoid robot, what would be the effective ratio of humanoid robots to humans? Because I think basically everyone would want one and maybe people would want more than one,…

Elon Musk ·Co-Founder, Technoking of Tesla, Chief Executive Officer & Director TSLA ·May 2023