Entrepreneurship & Business: Business Quotes

"The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out"

Charles Revson, Businessman

"We have the right assets for a fast-growing digital business"

Bernie Ebbers, Businessman

"The main professional responsibility of a person in business is business"

Lee R. Raymond, Businessman

"Console game publishing has become more like theatrical release film-making, and it is very hard if you are not one of the major publishers, and even for them, it is hard unless they are working with major game brands"

Trip Hawkins, Businessman

"We had Taiwan, Egypt, Lebanon, and Oman open their markets to our beef, and we're excited about that"

Mike Johanns, Politician

"The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money"

A. J. Liebling, Journalist

"I am seriously troubled by the proposed rapid consolidation in the telecommunications marketplace"

Conrad Bums, Writer

"There is no good reason for our cattle producers to have such limited market access. Our beef is the best in the world, and we need to be allowed to reach global markets"

Conrad Bums, Writer

"The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business"

Aaron Burr, Politician

"Despite the painful changes we have had to make, we continue to believe in the St. Louis market. And we are hoping to add flights, in a careful way, as the economics of our business improve and the demands of the traveling public in St. Louis become clear"

Gerard Arpey, Businessman

"You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business, what a man doesn't know does hurt"

Gerald Brenan, Writer

"For a long time, many believed that there would be an automatic adjustment and counted on a rapid increase in the wages of the emerging nations, on our advances in technology and the costs of transport preventing disruption. But this reassuring analysis is out of date"

Laurent Fabius, Statesman

"Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition"

Orrin Hatch, Politician

"I've done the same thing in the world of business that winners do in the game. I watch them, admire them"

Marcel Dionne, Athlete

"A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio between commerce and intellect"

John Jay Chapman, Poet

"The game-playing market today is pretty sizable"

John Romero, Inventor

"We have, unlike many of our competitors, continued to meet our various financial obligations"

Gerard Arpey, Businessman

"Thoroughly read all your contracts. I really mean thoroughly"

Bret Michaels, Musician

"There's been a big spur in downtown development with new business, restaurants and a lot of loft buying. The buses run, and there's a subway that runs through downtown"

Michael Ritchie, Director

"We will not support returning Fannie and Freddie to the role they played before conservatorship, where they fought to take market share from private competitors while enjoying the privilege of government support"

Timothy Geithner, Public Servant

"The government must do all it can to help reduce interest rates for business"

Pauline Hanson, Politician

"It makes no sense to talk of the social obligations of the corporation without reference to its economic obligations. The two are intertwined"

Lee R. Raymond, Businessman

"We are also looking to Canada as we continue to integrate the North American energy market"

Paul Cellucci, Politician

"I want to democratize business news"

Neil Cavuto, Journalist

"In 75 foreign countries, we have a presence in the USDA"

Mike Johanns, Politician

"The big producer is going to figure out how to deal with whatever the rules are, but the little guy who is running a few hundred units or maybe feeding 1,500 cattle a year, how will they ever comply with these requirements?"

Mike Johanns, Politician

"I want business to prosper and make a profit caused by business expansion and prosperity"

Roy Barnes, Politician

"Business and the state have a common interest; not an adversarial interest"

Roy Barnes, Politician

"We obviously want to produce things that people want. We are going to continue to do that in an environmentally responsible way, while still being aware of the physical, scientific, and practical issues that we have to deal with"

Lee R. Raymond, Businessman

"It is important to remember that all business has an impact on the lives of real people"

Lee R. Raymond, Businessman

"Markets that don't work, we're going to step away from"

Gerard Arpey, Businessman

"Under the AHP approach, the average small business might be able to offer their employees one or two insurance plans, and that employee of the small business would have no idea whether their doctor was going to be a apart of one of those plans"

Jim Cooper, Politician

"America cannot turn its back on the economic future and women-owned businesses are part of that future"

Ruben Hinojosa, Politician

"The unions and the auto companies have been unable to put a deal together that fundamentally restructures the industry. It needs to get done. The only way it's really going to get done is in bankruptcy court. They should have done it six months ago. They should do it now"

Tim Pawlenty, Politician

"The reason that the unions and the other stakeholders have not cut a deal with the automakers is because they believe the federal government is going to bail them out"

Tim Pawlenty, Politician

"The goal is to normalize trade relations based on sound science and consumer protection"

Mike Johanns, Politician

"We have lost all our big Australian industries and icons, including Qantas, when it sold 25 % of its shares and a controlling interest to British Airways"

Pauline Hanson, Politician

"The way companies hang on to their marketshare is by being scared"

Trip Hawkins, Businessman

"I can't tell you how important it was for us to be successful in Japan"

Trip Hawkins, Businessman

"The business is so upside down now. It's not just about the bling-bling"

Tim Reid, Actor

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