Entrepreneurship & Business: Business Quotes

"At great, great remove sit the head of General Electric, the head of News Corp, the head of Viacom, or the head of this giant international corporation that wants these ratings"

Norman Lear, Producer

"Over time, the product we produce has been consistently successful here in America and around the world. Apparently, we are doing something right"

Michael Eisner, Businessman

"Regulation is strangling businesses of all sizes in California, and we've got to streamline regulation so it's easy, not hard, to do business"

Meg Whitman, Businessman

"Wherever there is one job on the verge of being lost, I will fight to save it. Wherever there is one company looking to grow in West Virginia, I will fight to make that growth a reality"

Joe Manchin III, Politician

"Good design is good business"

Thomas J. Watson, Scientist

"I love this company. I don't know how it was selected. It's a bunch of machers. They mean business"

Jeffrey Tambor, Actor

"New Hampshire state government is a big customer for prescription drug companies. Just as businesses do, we should take advantage of the bargaining power we have as a big customer"

John Lynch, Politician

"If I could create one job in the private sector by helping to grow a business, that would be one more than Congress has created in the last six months"

Evan Bayh, Politician

"Continuing economic growth requires both recruitment of new companies and expansion of existing businesses"

Phil Bredesen, Politician

"In the long run, all producers are forced to use the most efficient methods or give place to others who do"

Frank Knight, Economist

"We got extremely lucky. It's a tough business to work with"

Lloyd Banks, Musician

"The formation of the News America Publishing Group will lead to greater editorial excitement, new business opportunities and greater efficiencies and coordination"

Peter Chernin, Businessman

"I'm not a career politician. I spent 30 years in business. I can tell you that people in California have had it with career politicians: they are done"

Meg Whitman, Businessman

"Guess what? The world changes. eBay has defined e-commerce"

Meg Whitman, Businessman

"My business has doubled in ways I couldn't have imagined"

Matthew Lesko, Entertainer

"Well, as we built the business in the 1990s, as I said, I enjoyed that"

Jeffrey Skilling, Criminal

"We built that into a wholesale business that became, really, one of the largest companies in the United States. We had success in building new markets, opening markets for competition, and that takes a personal toll"

Jeffrey Skilling, Criminal

"Dear, never forget one little point. It's my business. You just work here"

Elizabeth Arden, Businessman

"Cable would not translate into the public radio universe"

Juan Williams, Journalist

"Tough times helped many commodities producers become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost-cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped up"

Jim Rogers, Businessman

"We've got to help small businesses because they are the backbone of our economy. We've got to increase opportunities for everyone and we can do that by helping women and minority-owned businesses"

Rob Simmons, Politician

"Our ultimate goal is to stay in business. We are not here with a specific plan. That's kind of how our entire career has evolved. We will figure things out as we go along"

Mary-Kate Olsen, Actress

"Come to West Virginia and we'll show you how to live... how to treat people. We're open for business. West Virginia is truly on the move"

Joe Manchin, Politician

"We try to say it's creative and in a manner, it is creative, but it is a business, because today, with the cost factor in crossing the boundaries that you do"

Skitch Henderson, Musician

"It's a tough marketplace right now... It is very compressed... A turnaround is likely to happen quicker than before"

Peter Chernin, Businessman

"I think it's very important that whatever you're trying to make or sell, or teach, has to be basically good. A bad product and you know what? You won't be here in ten years"

Martha Stewart, Entertainer

"Larry, I spent probably most of my professional life helping to build Enron Corporation. I don't think there was anyone that was as shocked by the - by the collapse of the company as I was"

Jeffrey Skilling, Criminal

"Sometimes, if you really want to try something original, you step a little too far out of bounds. I mean, there's a market force that kind of unconsciously keeps you in line a little bit"

David Zucker, Director

"Radio is commercial, isn't it? It's a business"

Robin Trower, Musician

"So I, I knew something in a business sense about semiconductors and I appreciated their possibilities"

Arthur Rock, Businessman

"Now, the impact on export markets - we export about 10 percent of what we produce, so obviously that will probably have some impact on the market. At this point it's too early to determine how much"

Ann Veneman, Public Servant

"Tens of thousands of South Florida jobs are dependent on the trade and commerce that our ports provide, and we have to make sure that we spend our security dollars wisely"

Kendrick Meek, Politician

"Our employers today face numerous challenges and stiff competition from businesses all over the world"

Jim Gerlach, Politician

"We're probably doing better business than we thought we would do, especially considering the disappointing way the record company has handled the album"

Rick Allen, Musician

"Even the busboys at the restaurants have a script to give you. Everybody is in the business"

Robin Wright Penn, Actress

"Three quarters of the East Coast's refinery capability is located in the Philadelphia region"

Robert Brady, Politician

"We're traditional and don't do cutting-edge styles, but after 17 years we're holding our own"

Jaclyn Smith, Actress

"If you're soft and fuzzy, like our little characters, you become the skinny kid on the beach, and people in this business don't mind kicking sand in your face"

Michael Eisner, Businessman

"We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn"

Orville Redenbacher, Businessman

"You know, I like to think that I will subscribe very much to the core Republican principles of small government. Making a small number of rules and getting out of the way. Keeping taxes low. Creating an environment for small businesses to grow and thrive"

Meg Whitman, Businessman

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