Entrepreneurship & Business: Business Quotes

"And also, more and more businesses really want to do the right thing. They feel better about themselves, their workers feel better, and so do their customers. I think this is equally true in the transnational corporations, but it is harder to express in those situations"

Paul Hawken, Environmentalist

"It was the business that made Pop go away, not our inability to create"

Jeffrey Katzenberg, Producer

"Thanks for the information about what we call business"

Dashiell Hammett, Author

"IBM decided they were going to enter the copying business in 1968"

Arthur Rock, Businessman

"No one has any idea what's next... The uncertainty of the business climate in America is frightening, frightening to everybody, and it's delaying the recovery"

Steve Wynn, Businessman

"One of the things that happens in the business is that success is a very strange thing in that if you are involved in something very successful, the next person wants you to repeat it"

Elmer Bernstein, Composer

"Boston is the engine of the state's economy"

Thomas Menino, Politician

"HBO has 28 million subscribers, small stuff compared to TBS, which can be seen in 88 million homes"

Suzanne Fields, Writer

"Let me say at the outset that I do not reflexively oppose international trade"

Richard Neal, Politician

"The fact of the matter is, most of our orders are not supersized. Less than five per cent are supersized - that's never mentioned. The whole issue has been supersized itself"

Jim Cantalupo, Businessman

"I think this year we'll open up 900 gross, we're closing some, so the net count is lower, but the 900 are spread all over the place. Some of the closures are relocations, where you're moving it to another place in the marketplace"

Jim Cantalupo, Businessman

"Local companies don't have to internalize their costs, and few actually do, but they tend to more often because the owners live there and they have to show their face in town, and their kids play with other kids"

Paul Hawken, Environmentalist

"In fact, 80 percent of our domestic job growth comes from the small- and medium-sized business community"

Melissa Bean, Politician

"By overhauling current rules and speeding the entry of competitors in the market, we encourage competition and provide our constituents with new choices and cheaper bills"

Melissa Bean, Politician

"I do not believe that the government is in any position to say exactly how every single business and every single activity shall reach those performances"

Dixie Lee Ray, Politician

"If we can produce more ethanol and bio-diesel to help fuel our vehicles, we will create jobs, boost local economies and produce cleaner burning fuels. This will keep dollars here at home, where they can have a positive impact on our economy"

Rick Renzi, Politician

"I hate politics, hate deals, and deal-making, hate meeting with attorneys and agents"

Kathie Lee Gifford, Entertainer

"There's a lot of exaggerated talk about CAFTA, but it's actually a fairly routine trade agreement. Although it involves fairly small nations, they're still more important trade partners than places like Australia or many other larger nations"

Ernest Istook, Politician

"Business money is limitless"

Muhammad Yunus, Economist

"Airlines go, in the long run, at the competition to reason. For the passenger, the competition is good, because each competitor tries to undercut the other one"

Niki Lauda, Athlete

"What the insurance companies have done is to reverse the business so that the public at large insures the insurance companies"

Gerry Spence, Lawyer

"Well, as a former small businessperson - I understand what's going on, I think in the business community. And businesspeople around the country are looking at all the spending and all the debt. They're looking at all the policies coming out of this Congress and this administration the last two years, and they - it's created all this uncertainty"

John Boehner, Politician

"Listen, I think what's best for the economy and to create jobs is to extend all of the current tax rates - for all Americans. It - it begins to reduce the uncertainty. And for small businesspeople, they can look up and begin to plan"

John Boehner, Politician

"I talked to a lot of employers who just are, are fearful of what's coming next out of Washington. It's all the spending, it's all the debt. It's their national energy tax, they want to call it cap and trade - more mandates, higher costs, more taxes. Their healthcare bill - more mandates, higher costs, higher taxes"

John Boehner, Politician

"In this post 9-11 world we live in, it is critical we take steps to improve the safety and security of the Trucking Industry which has proven to be our most mobile and flexible mode of transporting goods"

Zack Wamp, Politician

"It simply is not cost affective to cover stories from independent sources"

Ben Edwards, Entertainer

"America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man"

Ilka Chase, Actress

"Businesses must invest in products and people in order to create new wealth"

John Hoeven, Politician

"I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly"

Dan Glickman, Politician

"Costs of manufactured articles importantly depend on the cost of raw materials as well as labour"

Charles E. Wilson, Businessman

"The bulk of extra supplies that could be put into the market come from two places. One, they come from other Persian Gulf suppliers, of which Saudi Arabia is at the top of the list"

Daniel Yergin, Author

"Clearly, the Chinese need the resources, but I don't think they want to clash with the industrial world, which happens to be the market for their goods"

Daniel Yergin, Author

"If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it pretty impossible to do business with them"

Dan Glickman, Politician

"Well, actually, I had been working as a consultant to former companies of Enron, or predecessor companies of Enron and so I joined in 1990 to really start our wholesale merchant business"

Jeffrey Skilling, Criminal

"Some of the things I think I learned from that were very educational as far as just paying bills - the basics in dealing with a restaurant like that. It was just life - the education involved in running the organization, even on a small level"

Todd English, Celebrity

"Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets"

Orville Redenbacher, Businessman

"Over the years, I have developed a pretty good Rolodex"

John Sculley, Businessman

"Good will is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy"

Marshall Field, Businessman

"When you feel like this isn't your business, get out of the business"

Andy Lau, Actor

"If you take the approach that you want to scrape every last nickel off the table, that'll work one or two times, but after awhile, your reputation will precede you"

Tom Hicks, Businessman

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