Entrepreneurship & Business: Business Quotes

Codie Sanchez, Entrepreneur

"In business, I believe that if you focus only on the journey, you'll miss the whole point of the enterprise. There has to be a goal, an end game of some kind; otherwise, you're just spinning your wheels. Yes, the journey is important, but the destination is important, too"

Ivanka Trump, Businesswoman

"I'm not so much interested in the music business as I am in music as a business"

Wayne Shorter, Musician

"If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available"

T. Boone Pickens, Businessman

"You are slowly developing some multinationals of your own. We certainly hope that some of them will look in this direction when they look for opportunities because the progress of Southeast Asia is important to China, just as China's progress is important to us"

Sellapan Ramanathan, Statesman

"I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap"

Robert Wyatt, Musician

"I was an economics major, which I enjoyed because I had a good business sense"

Herb Ritts, Photographer

"Almost 70 percent of U.S. ag exports travel the upper Mississippi River and the Illinois waterway system"

Jerry Costello, Politician

"We closed the restaurant in New Orleans and brought the entire staff to San Francisco. But we had to go home"

Paul Prudhomme, Celebrity

"Ninety-five percent of our wool is going to China"

Jim Elliot, Clergyman

"Unfortunately, since the Sept. 11 tragedy, our business is not doing too well"

Hunter Tylo, Actress

"The country blacksmith who employs no journeyman is never conscious of any conflict between the capital invested in his anvil, hammer and bellows, and the labor he performs with them, because in fact, there is none"

Leland Stanford, Businessman

"Labor can and will become its own employer through co-operative association"

Leland Stanford, Businessman

"Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce"

Leland Stanford, Businessman

"When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this"

Damon Albarn, Musician

"Because Tom Doherty and people like that are not stupid. If they could have streamlined their operation more to get more money out of it, they would have done it. It's not like they're a bunch of idiots"

Jerry Pournelle, Journalist

"If I write in my name to the agents of England and France residing in Asia and inform them that Japan is ready to make a commercial treaty with their countries, the number of steamers will be reduced from fifty to two or three"

Townsend Harris, Businessman

"Where we're living, we have a certain amount of our profit every year; it's like a percentage, 5 or 7% or something like that, that we set aside specifically for charity things"

Jon Fishman, Musician

"That is why I strongly believe we should working in Congress to make America a better place to run a business by reducing the costly burdens of bureaucracy and red tape"

Michael K. Simpson, Politician

"Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think that's something we should get together on"

Ed Rendell, Politician

"It quite often happens that they attach a name to a project and it doesn't get all the financing it needs"

Dougray Scott, Actor

"The industry now wants to be in charge of everything"

Ben E. King, Musician

"MTV lets us do whatever we want. For me, there is freedom in serving an experienced client who knows what they want and has the money to do it. MTV is that for us"

Ben Nicholson, Artist

"I have always been fully persuaded that, through co-operation, labor could become its own employer"

Leland Stanford, Businessman

"Protectionism is a very real danger. It is understandable that in times of a severe downturn, protectionist pressures mount, but the lessons of history are clear. If we give in to protectionist pressures, we will only send the world into a downward spiral"

Manmohan Singh, Statesman

"I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to"

Vince McMahon, Entertainer

"Enterprise Washington is economic development in areas of high unemployment around the state of Washington"

Mike Lowry, Politician

"Instead of trade policy that is beneficial to American businesses and workers as well as our trade partners, we have a flawed trade policy that hurts all parties"

Stephen F. Lynch, Politician

"I don't have the inclinations that other people seem to have as far as the business is concerned"

Kristin Hersh, Musician

"The real conflict, if any exists, is between two industrial systems"

Leland Stanford, Businessman

"Coal is absolutely critical to our nation's economic health and global competitiveness"

Jerry Costello, Politician

"In this industry, the new owners prefer to kill anything they weren't responsible for"

Tom Berenger, Actor

"The biggest trade that Germany and Britain had was with each other, in the prewar period; I think I'm right in that. Two highly industrialized nations had the most trade with each other, and it wasn't tariff policies alone that made trade relations better for both of them"

W. Averell Harriman, Politician

"The biggest share of U.S. exports to the six CAFTA nations is not the traditional job-creation kind. These are products that are not consumed in the purchasing nations"

Stephen F. Lynch, Politician

"We were talking about really getting Europe on its feet. It was our hope that there would be a breakdown of trade barriers in Europe first, and then eventually a breakdown internationally, which would help increase trade with Europe"

W. Averell Harriman, Politician

"One the other hand, the publishing trend is ghastly, isn't it? Two hundred and something distributors are now down to 10 or 12? And what's the recruiting drive?"

Jerry Pournelle, Journalist

"This continuing spike in gas prices is bad for consumers, bad for our economy, and bad for all other businesses. It is hurting us and costing us jobs"

Jodi Rell, Politician

"For small businesses, regulatory burdens can be overwhelming"

Michael K. Simpson, Politician

"I was quite ready to accept certain restrictions on the United States. After all, there was a great dollar shortage. It was quite clear that the more prosperous Europe became, the more business there would be in the United States"

W. Averell Harriman, Politician

"Even my agents say, we don't know what this business is anymore"

Tom Berenger, Actor

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