Entrepreneurship & Business: Business Quotes

"We have to spend a lot more time training people to be good advocates of U.S. business"

Lawrence Eagleburger, Diplomat

"When a film company is in the red, they come to me. Always, it is the same"

Bela Lugosi, Actor

"The question really is, how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult task than understanding a statistical matrix"

Lawrence Eagleburger, Diplomat

"That said, there is a tendency to help the large industrial conglomerate more quickly than the small company you have never heard of. That is something in the culture we are trying to change"

Lawrence Eagleburger, Diplomat

"In the best of all worlds, everyone in the Embassy is doing something to assist U.S. exports"

Lawrence Eagleburger, Diplomat

"Any Ambassador or Foreign Service Officer who has his or her head screwed on right knows that the U.S. position in the world is far more dependent on our ability to compete in world markets"

Lawrence Eagleburger, Diplomat

"Achieving net zero will require a whole economy transition , every company, every bank, every insurer, and every investor will have to adjust their business models"

Mark Carney, Economist

"The primary goal of a vendor is to make money"

Theo de Raadt, Scientist

"The demographic weight of countries such as China and India exercise a massive pressure on our wages and salaries. They have accomplished massive technological advances and the revolution in information technology has reduced the costs of transport"

Laurent Fabius, Statesman

"From another point of view, a new situation now seems to be arising in which Japan's prosperity is going to be incorporated into the expanding potential power of both production and consumption in Asia at large"

Kenzaburo Oe, Writer

"It's still a bottom-line business. You can be out of control, and if they want you, they'll pick you. And you can be a mensch, and if you're not the product they want, you won't get it"

Judd Nelson, Actor

"Our planes should be full, which among other things means we have a golden opportunity... to build on the momentum reflected in the financial results we are reporting today"

Gerard Arpey, Businessman

"Keep your shop, and your shop will keep you"

William Turner, Scientist

"I'm a partner in a company called Helicopter Services and Instruction out of New Jersey"

Treat Williams, Actor

"One of the commitments that I personally have now is to a diverse approach to buying businesses and the operation of those businesses"

Julius Erving, Athlete

"A lot affects the outcome. It boils down to scheduling and the commitment of the network"

David Ogden Stiers, Actor

"It would be great to take one city street and turn it into a pedestrian corridor and see what kind of effect it has on the businesses in that area - It's the future, I think"

Stone Gossard, Musician

"If you are a musician and you don't show any interest on the business level, then you are actually vulnerable and people will rip you off. They will sweet talk you into anything"

Michael Schenker, Musician

"One of our most difficult realizations was that - in the course of two years - a connecting hub in St. Louis had gone from something we thought we needed to something we could no longer afford"

Gerard Arpey, Businessman

"Just to cover the increase in fuel costs over the past two years, American would have had to raise fares nearly $75 per round-trip ticket. During this time period, our average fare increased by only $15"

Gerard Arpey, Businessman

"The fact is... our doors have not exactly been knocked down by companies willing to defend Microsoft's business practices"

Orrin Hatch, Politician

"To let her dail would be the greatest profit both for the company and for the merchants"

Peter Stuyvesant, Public Servant

"Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster"

Josiah Strong, Clergyman

"I represent the Port of Philadelphia, and I know firsthand the important role that ports play in the national and global economy. I have also seen how simple accidents can have devastating impacts on the port system"

Allyson Schwartz, Politician

"So you keep raising these taxes, and all of a sudden the business community says, 'Why are we here? We can go someplace else and use their phones.' That's one of the problems that directly affects the business community"

Richard M. Daley, Politician

"A lot of sponsors over the years have left us. They've all come back. But they chose to leave us for a while because of stories we have done about them or their products or their friend's products or whatever"

Morley Safer, Journalist

"If you want to stay in the business then you've got to be a bit shrewd, haven't you?"

Katie Price, Model

"The Gulf Coast, we all know now, after Katrina, is responsible for 25 percent of U.S. production of natural gas. Following Katrina and Rita, almost 75 percent of the natural gas production in the Gulf was shut down and not producing"

Mark Foley, Politician

"Today, our economy is divided: fifty percent is the public economy and fifty percent is the private economy that includes small companies employing from 4 to 200 workers"

Ibrahim Rugova, Statesman

"No company fails in communist China because they're all partly owned by the government"

Jim Bunning, Politician

"But once you buy a company, you are married. You are married to that company"

Henry Kravis, Businessman

"We as Americans assume that big companies are bad, and big power companies are even worse"

Frank Luntz, Politician

"The Business Profits Tax, which is imposed on in-state businesses, we need to impose the same thing on out-of-state businesses, because the way the Business Profits Tax is calculated, it is highly dependent on how much sales and profits are generated in-state"

Craig Benson, Politician

"Providing tax relief and reducing regulations leads to job creation and new economic opportunities for our small businesses, which are the backbone of our economy"

Cathy McMorris, Politician

"The United States' gasoline industry, as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated, is remarkably fragile. And the process of how oil is pumped from the ground, turned into gasoline and distributed to consumers is complicated"

Gary Miller, Politician

"The Asian nation's oil demand is expected to grow this year by 800,000 barrels per day and represents more than one-third of the total growth in global demand, according to the Energy Information Agency"

Gary Miller, Politician

"I believe in competition"

Craig Benson, Politician

"We discovered that there was a great deal of keen interest in America for the kinds of products that we thought could be produced here. Also there was an interest in Britain for Australian material generally"

Ann Macbeth, Author

"Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight"

Henry R. Luce, Editor

"At a time when we are losing manufacturing jobs in this country, we should be doing everything we can to help our manufacturers stay competitive. They are the backbone of our economy"

Debbie Stabenow, Politician

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