Entrepreneurship & Business: Business Quotes

"I believe we're the party of small business"

Ed Gillespie, Politician

"Everybody knows things are not the same. The people running the TV end of a major vertically integrated company know how much money a successful show can make"

Dick Wolf, Producer

"The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than in arithmetical proportion"

Friedrich List, Economist

"If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time"

Ernst Fischer, Writer

"A business like an automobile has to be driven, in order to get results"

B. C. Forbes, Journalist

"I think it would be absolutely reckless and irresponsible for anyone to try and break up Microsoft"

Steve Ballmer, Businessman

"Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products"

Scott McNealy, Businessman

"Every one says: 'Listen, I'd love to reinvest. I'd love to hire people. But I have no idea what this healthcare bill is going to do to my bottom line. I have no idea what this financial reform bill is going to do... I'm not going to step out a limb and do any of those until I know what this government is going to do to me.'"

Kristi Noem, Politician

"I think it's really good that you have great competition among news networks, and, for that matter, all the networks in general. It's bringing more and more people in to watching the news"

Walter Isaacson, Writer

"The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency"

Joyce Carol Oates, Novelist

"We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference"

Steve Ballmer, Businessman

"I've been looking at companies that are on a positive path vs. a negative path and I've come to use the language of sports, winning streaks and losing streaks"

Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Businesswoman

"We've grown from 18% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry to 23% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry over the last five years. Profits are up over 70%, where the industry profit is up about 35%. Pretty good"

Steve Ballmer, Businessman

"The death tax is one of the leading causes of the dissolution of small businesses"

Kit Bond, Politician

"We have to scrutinize the entire abatement process to ensure the companies that are under consideration for an abatement truly need one, and I don't believe that is being done now"

Vincent Frank

"San Francisco businesses face many challenges, including high rents, regulatory burdens, and the rising cost of workers' compensation insurance and employee health plans"

Gavin Newsom, Politician

"As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive"

Gavin Newsom, Politician

"The key to competing and surviving against Wal-Mart is to focus your business into a niche or pocket where you can leverage your strengths in the local marketplace"

Michael Bergdahl, Author

"Sure, but competition is good for the user"

Wietse Venema, Scientist

"Firstly, people take for granted that the E.U. has created the biggest economic space in the world"

Peter Mandelson, Politician

"In my opinion, right now there's way too much hype on the technologies and not enough attention to the real businesses behind them"

Mark Cuban, Businessman

"I certainly believe that we gain through open trade and liberalisation"

Peter Mandelson, Politician

"The manufacture of wax candles was another important branch of business in the nunnery"

Maria Monk, Celebrity

"I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair"

Gloria Swanson, Actress

"The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise, which we call capitalism, was fundamental"

Garet Garrett, Journalist

"I'm not against government involvement in times of need. I am for recognizing that big public companies will continue to cut jobs in an effort to prop up stock prices, which in turn stimulates the need for more government involvement"

Mark Cuban, Businessman

"In and of itself, keeping the country safe for business is not a bad thing"

Peter Schuyler, Politician

"Tax reform and expanded trade are going to be so important to the economy of Illinois, particularly the 11th Congressional District, which is a major manufacturing and a major agricultural district"

Jerry Weller, Politician

"Only now did I recognize the reciprocal relationship which exits between manufacturing power and the national system of transportation, and that the one can never develop to its fullest without the other"

Friedrich List, Economist

"The most positive step is to try to expand the employment base by making it, if not economically friendly, at least not economically disastrous, for studios to take on deficits"

Dick Wolf, Producer

"In the Gulf region and nationwide, small businesses are an integral and crucial part of local economies and communities. They should not be overlooked"

Dan Lipinski, Politician

"We are going through tough economic times, but things are looking up, and the indicators are improving not only for large corporations but also for small business"

George Pataki, Politician

"There are professional negotiators working for the writers and the actors, but basically you've got the writers and actors negotiating against businessmen. That's why you get rhetoric"

Dick Wolf, Producer

"Competition is the final price determinant, and competitive prices may result in profits which force you to accept a rate of return less than you hoped for, or for that matter to accept temporary losses"

Alfred P. Sloan, Businessman

"Tell the trial lawyers to get out of your state and to quit costing businessmen and women"

Rick Perry, Politician

"Isn't it fitting that so many of those who have contempt for the private sector will soon find themselves back in it?"

Mitt Romney, Politician

"Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excessive taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous lawsuits"

Rick Perry, Politician

"Our chemical and other manufacturing concerns are all too often ready to let the Germans have Latin American markets, provided the American companies can work out an arrangement which will enable them to charge high prices to the consumer inside the United States"

Henry A. Wallace, Vice President

"Obamacare has got everyone on edge. I mean, small business - men and women or big business are sitting out there saying we have no idea what this is going to cost, but we know it's going to cost us and cost us a lot"

Rick Perry, Politician

"As I've said, in 2007, we're free to go and we'll just have to do what's best for the business"

Mario Lemieux, Athlete

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