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I always try to communicate to our people that we can never make enough money. We can never make enough profit.
Douglas R Oberhelman / Businessman
Communicate
Profit
Money Enough Always
Enough Money
Money People Always
Our People
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I, for one, believe that revenue has to increase. I think every American would pay more if they thought spending was going to be cut and the budget brought to balance.
Douglas R Oberhelman / Businessman
Balance
Believe
Cutting
Revenue
Spending
Thinking
Budget
Every American
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Inflation was driven by higher labor costs, not higher goods costs. Frankly, I'd love to see a little bit of that. Because I'd love to pay people more. I'd love to see rising wages for everybody.
Douglas R Oberhelman / Businessman
Driven
Goods
Inflation
Labor
Wages
Love People See
Frankly
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We're going to have to raise revenues in some form or fashion, and we're going to have to cut spending, including entitlements of all kind, including the military. We all know this. Lets get on with it.
Douglas R Oberhelman / Businessman
Entitlement
Lets
Raise
Revenues
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All of our competitors around the world, every country is investing more in infrastructure as a percentage of their GDP than we are. And down the road our children and grandchildren will have to compete with that more and more.
Douglas R Oberhelman / Businessman
Children
Competitors
Country
Down The Road
Gdp
Grandchildren
Infrastructure
Investing
World Will Children
Compete
More And More
Percentage
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Caterpillar exported $20 billion of goods in 2011, all by American hands and American workers, to all over the world. In order to do that, we have to create jobs in all those countries that we export to, to be able to sell there.
Douglas R Oberhelman / Businessman
American Workers
Goods
Workers
Billion
Caterpillar
Sell
Export
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Infrastructure is one of the core responsibilities of government and one that cannot be shortchanged by other controversial spending. I believe investment in infrastructure pays dividends for decades and is a wise investment of taxpayer dollars.
Douglas R Oberhelman / Businessman
Wise
Controversial
Decades
Dividends
Dollars
Infrastructure
Investment
Government Believe I Believe
Responsibilities
Taxpayer
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I, for one, struggle a little bit with a $250,000 education for a philosophy degree. They are a wonderful people, but we can't employ philosophers in manufacturing in the United States. We need a one- or two-year technical add-on for a high school.
Douglas R Oberhelman / Businessman
Manufacturing
Degree
Employ
Philosophers
Two-Year
Wonderful People
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I am a human being. I started out with virtually nothing. I worked my way up like so many businesspeople have and made ourselves great in this country. And that is what we have to make sure we preserve for our grandchildren and future generations all the way through.
Douglas R Oberhelman / Businessman
Generations
Grandchildren
Future Great I Am
Businesspeople
Future Generations
Human Being
Preserve
Virtually
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We spend a lot of time training and retraining. It's heartbreaking because our education system has failed all of us. And again you go to China, even Mexico, Brazil the education systems are valued - ours are not in this country at K-12 level. It's amazing how that change has transpired in my lifetime.
Douglas R Oberhelman / Businessman
Education
Amazing
Brazil
China
Country
Heartbreaking
Lifetime
Mexico
Training
Again
Failed
Valued
Spend
Ours
System
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Why is Caterpillar bad if we create a new job in India or China to receive U.S. exports? It makes no sense to me. We want to drive all the exports we can from the United States. We want to concentrate on all those consumers, outside contractors, customers outside the United States that we possibly can.
Douglas R Oberhelman / Businessman
Jobs
New Job
Want
Caterpillar
Contractors
Exports
No Sense
Possibly
Receive
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Any politician that says no tax revenue or zero spending cuts does not deserve reelection. Our hole is so deep in this country with the debt and the debt service, the interest on that debt, before the big expenses come for Social Security and Medicare - for we baby boomers in a few years - that everything has to be on the table.
Douglas R Oberhelman / Businessman
Zero
Boomers
Deserve
Expenses
Revenue
Social Security
Spending Cuts
Baby Boomers
Cuts
Hole
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