Entrepreneurship & Business: Business Quotes

"We're working on accession to the WTO very actively. We still have several countries with which we need to conclude agreements and possibly that will happen next year"

Nursultan Nazarbayev, Politician

"Certainly, Africa accounts for only l % of world trade, and we cannot assure our development on our own"

Omar Bongo, Statesman

"China also has moved away from its original status of purely producing basic, what you call, consumer commodities, and Chinese companies are moving beyond China to various parts of the world"

Sellapan Ramanathan, Statesman

"Yet our small business owners across the country are unfairly losing potential interest income on a daily basis until the Business Checking Freedom Act becomes law"

Sue Kelly, Politician

"The death tax causes one-third of all family-owned small businesses to liquidate after the death of the owner. It is also an unfair tax because the assets have already been taxed once at their income level"

Ric Keller, Politician

"So, there's like one luxury you take and since we do that, y'know, you're involved with people in suits; business people all the time. But hey, if I sit down on a bar and they leave, good for me!"

Kerry King, Musician

"I'm set to have my best year ever: I'm hiring some acts and there will be a show in the morning, in the afternoon and in the evening. I'm going to use my theater to its fullest potential"

Mickey Gilley, Musician

"I want to do a documentary about strippers, 'cause it's a moneymaker"

Method Man, Musician

"Finally, the House is working to require a comprehensive federal review of IRS regulations with a follow-up report to Congress on possible actions to reduce the tax paperwork burden imposed on small businesses"

Michael K. Simpson, Politician

"I had business experience. I had made my living designing and building electronic equipment. Basic business was not new to me, but the music business was completely new to me. I knew nothing about distribution, or any of those things"

Greg Ginn, Musician

"Putting out the things that I like best hasn't been the easiest way to run a label, and it still isn't because it requires finding an audience for each record"

Greg Ginn, Musician

"We do not wish to open your ports to foreign trade all at once"

Townsend Harris, Businessman

"The biggest disappointment has been seeing the number of people in this business with very shortsighted views"

Greg Ginn, Musician

"It was fairly obvious to anyone who studied the situation that China was dumping bedroom furniture in the U.S. to the detriment of our American workers and manufacturers to gain market access and share"

Howard Coble, Politician

"Eliminating the Death Tax will continue to restore consumer confidence, spur capital investment, and create new jobs, which are critical components of economic growth, particularly within the small business community"

Howard Coble, Politician

"Small businesses provide 75 percent of new U.S. jobs and are the backbone of our economy, and no outdated ban should be keeping small business owners from collecting the same interest their money could earn if it were held by an individual"

Sue Kelly, Politician

"Barack Obama is the most anti-business president in a generation, perhaps in American history"

Dinesh D'Souza, Author

"I'm interested in giving business an opportunity by improving the tax environment to invest and grow with Pennsylvania, to expand and put more money in capital investment and creating jobs"

Ed Rendell, Politician

"The British merchants represented that they received some profit indeed from Virginia and South Carolina, as well as the West Indies; but as for the rest of this continent, they were constant losers in trade"

Ezra Stiles, Clergyman

"Harley-Davidson is the finest company in the world"

Evel Knievel, Entertainer

"Smart businesses do not look at labor costs alone anymore. They do look at market access, transportation, telecommunications infrastructure and the education and skill level of the workforce, the development of capital and the regulatory market"

Janet Napolitano, Politician

"Disney had made such a great deal of money on Snow White that the banks gave him the go-ahead on the next three films. But he was heavily dependent on the foreign market"

Marc Davis, Artist

"The shell fishing industry represents a major part of Louisiana's economy"

Bobby Jindal, Politician

"Be it $15 million here and $11 million there, it takes hundreds of millions to be successful in this business"

David Neeleman, Businessman

"As you know, in the past several years, month after month, radio has increased its revenues - some of it even coming from Dot-Com advertisers. So, radio is a survivor"

Casey Kasem, Actor

"Freight mobility and movement, while not a sexy policy issue, is a highly important one. Capacity constraints and congestion on our nation's freight rail system create many problems"

Bill Lipinski, Politician

"Any outfit that has to beg its listeners for money is an organization that has to constantly please its listeners or it will dry up and go away. It shouldn't work when you think about it"

Bob Edwards, Journalist

"Certainly, we are hurt by the high fuel prices because it raises our cost"

David Neeleman, Businessman

"Value will always be on top of everyone's lists now, right along with safety"

David Neeleman, Businessman

"We try to be as much involved in our product as possible, because then it's us"

Alice Cooper, Musician

"We don't want a third party who may or may not have our best interests in mind or our crew members' best interests in mind because they may be serving a union of one of our competitors. They are trying to equalize us and take away our competitive advantage"

David Neeleman, Businessman

"Our people get profit-sharing checks. I got a report the other day that says that 84 percent of our people participate in our stock purchase program, where they can buy stock at a 15 percent discount"

David Neeleman, Businessman

"I think they got caught up in how much money they could get from each of the city governments as far as tax rebates. But that stuff works when you make money. It's a little bit phantom money"

David Neeleman, Businessman

"I am not sure the others are as committed as Rob Hall and Scott Fischer. I think there is more business now, and I know it will be impossible to stop this Everest business"

Anatoli Boukreev, Athlete

"We like to believe our fashion is growing"

Tommy Hilfiger, Designer

"Frankly, Governor Romney in his career has created more jobs than the entire Obama cabinet combined, so he could actually talk about it"

Newt Gingrich, Politician

"I think it is really important to have a sense of business. As a designer, you can get so wrapped up in the design and fashion side that you forget the business side"

Tommy Hilfiger, Designer

"Their argument, and I think it's a correct one, is that they'll make more money from the trades and the hardcovers if nobody messes with the creative team"

Mark Millar, Writer

"All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage"

Thorstein Veblen, Economist

"What is more important is that Foreign Service Officers understand business, about the needs of U.S. business and how to help U.S. companies make the right connections abroad"

Lawrence Eagleburger, Diplomat

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