Entrepreneurship & Business: Business Quotes

"In this day and age, when we do so much business in foreign trade, we need the ability to identify, trace an animal very quickly, identifying where it came from - where it has been, and where it is at today"

Mike Johanns, Politician

"This ability to have reliable sources of energy and a reliable transmission of energy here in North America is critical for both of us and for Mexico, as we want to keep our economies growing"

Paul Cellucci, Politician

"We are going to sign a treaty with Mexico. We are competing internationally. We need another international airport for international cargo, international travel, international businesses"

Richard M. Daley, Politician

"Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade"

Zhu Rongji, Statesman

"We get more oil from Canada than any country"

Paul Cellucci, Politician

"However, the economics of our business continued to deteriorate. We barely escaped bankruptcy a year ago, and in the aftermath of that escape we had to make some even tougher decisions"

Gerard Arpey, Businessman

"I fully support global commerce"

Jim Costa, Politician

"For decades, Japan has been a friend and reliable trading partner with the United States, and I anticipate that relationship will prosper"

Jim Costa, Politician

"We already get more energy from Canada than from any other foreign country"

Paul Cellucci, Politician

"Our position should not be on how to eliminate the competition at all expenses, but we should focus on what we're going to do in order to make sure that Americans turn to the road of prosperity with the trajectory of capitalism, because making a profit is not an evil"

Tim Scott, Politician

"My point is this, the Government made this decision to ban totally beef exports into Indonesia, even to compliant abattoirs, and this will have enormous consequences for the beef cattle industry across Australia"

Julie Bishop, Politician

"But it's not just the cattle producers, it's all the attendant industries like transport and shipping and feed producers and the like. There will be enormous ramifications across the beef industry generally as a result of the Government's decision to ban all exports to all of the abattoirs in Indonesia"

Julie Bishop, Politician

"Well, it takes a certain amount of money. And I've got to see pictures of the person ahead of time. If I don't like the way the person looks, I won't do it"

Helmut Newton, Photographer

"The NRA provided that in America each industry should be organized into a federally supervised trade association. It was not called a corporative. It was called a Code Authority"

John T. Flynn, Critic

"We have for too long put vast oil and natural gas reserves off limits to exploration and production, as The Washington Post editorial stated this week"

Jim Costa, Politician

"We no longer have a free market in the United States, We have a government controlled free market"

Jim Bunning, Politician

"Well, I happen to believe all business is female business"

Eddie Bernice Johnson, Politician

"No matter what it is, if you get 10 people in the business talking about something, you get 10 different opinions, but you know, they're amazingly well informed"

James Woods, Actor

"The bronze powder business, however, no longer required my personal attention, and was well managed by those I had chosen as the guardians of a secret, which was long and honourably kept"

Henry Bessemer, Scientist

"I couldn't have been happier with the relationship we had with Disney, it couldn't have been easier"

Joel Coen, Director

"Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them"

C. J. Cherryh, Writer

"General Motors spends more on health care than steel"

Kathleen Sebelius, Politician

"During these two and a half years that have followed the war, the most urgent problem we have encountered was: to activate the public enterprises, to bring them up to the level that international markets demand, and we are just now getting them prepared for privatization"

Ibrahim Rugova, Statesman

"We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs, Communism would have worked, but it didn't"

Tim Scott, Politician

"The limit is not as narrow as it might be. I do not claim for this action, as it now goes on, an ideal degree of efficiency. What I do claim is that this type of competition already reveals its nature and its ultimate power to hold seeming monopolies in check"

John Bates Clark, Economist

"After 9/11, the businesses in my district and throughout the New York metropolitan area saw firsthand the result of a lack of availability of terrorism insurance"

Steve Israel, Politician

"Business wise, I have always learned valuable lessons so I don't regret any decisions I have made"

Kiana Tom, Model

"I think a major cause of present Asian economic difficulties that mainly come from, you know, lack of market economy"

Kim Dae Jung, Leader

"The privatization law draft was recently released, and I believe that very soon we will start applying it, of course, taking into consideration the provisions of UNMIK (United Nations Mission in Kosovo)"

Ibrahim Rugova, Statesman

"There will be a lot of competitive and strong companies coming here, and even though Kosovo is a small country that undoubtedly has a lot to offer to global trade; one of our main interests is to expose it to the world market"

Ibrahim Rugova, Statesman

"Today, currently, business owners can go out and find out if the person they are hiring is eligible to work here or if they are not. We need to think about how we are impacting workers"

Gary Miller, Politician

"One, I love the creativity. I love the ability to create a capital structure that is appropriate for a company, no matter what field it happens to be in"

Henry Kravis, Businessman

"If we can just take a few companies, and use those as models, as examples, to show the rest of corporate America how they can become more competitive, that's what I'd like to do and that's what I hope to do"

Henry Kravis, Businessman

"I've done reasonably well over the last 10 years because I took the strategy of language and politics and applied it to the corporate world, which has never been done before"

Frank Luntz, Politician

"In the United States, oil demand is projected to grow by 340,000 barrels per day this year and gasoline demand is projected to grow nearly two percent, averaging 9.3 million barrels per day for the summer"

Gary Miller, Politician

"Energy companies, such as Chevron and Shell, and oil producing countries, such as Kuwait and Venezuela, pump crude oil from their vast land holdings and sell it on the world market"

Gary Miller, Politician

"Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States"

Chris Chocola, Politician

"I've been around the bend in corporations"

Indra Nooyi, Businessman

"It's been said that government doesn't create jobs, business does. For the most part, this is true. But government creates the environment in which businesses can excel and expand!"

Christine Gregoire, Politician

"Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces"

Iris Chang, Historian

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