Entrepreneurship & Business: Business Quotes

"Over the years, dozens of American companies have filed papers to trade in their U.S. corporate citizenship for citizenship in tax haven countries like Bermuda"

Richard Neal, Politician

"These companies know that at their current size they're not going to be big enough to have the necessary capital, and they don't have enough spectrum to get to the third generation"

Steve Largent, Athlete

"The world has become rapidly more competitive"

John Hickenlooper, Politician

"Every year we close 300-400 stores anyway, just relocations"

Jim Cantalupo, Businessman

"Businesses who are members of Businesses for Social Responsibility or the Social Venture Network are internalizing costs on a voluntary basis and therefore raising their costs of doing business, but their competitors are not required to"

Paul Hawken, Environmentalist

"You've got to know business before you go to show business"

Patti LaBelle, Musician

"Small businesses are the economic drivers of our country, providing the stimulus our communities need"

Melissa Bean, Politician

"We will probably always be in business together"

Mary-Kate Olsen, Actress

"Although NFL teams have common interests such as promoting the NFL brand, they are still separate, profit-making entities, and their interests in licensing team trademarks are not necessarily aligned"

John Paul Stevens, Judge

"You cannot have companies where many of the largest ones lose money indefinitely without someone finally waving the white flag, and IBM is the most recent example of that"

Kevin Rollins, Businessman

"Over the last several quarters we have been growing faster in Asia and Europe than any other place on the planet. We have 18 percent of the global PC share, about 12 percent in Europe, and 8 percent in Asia"

Kevin Rollins, Businessman

"When I came to Congress, I came to bring what I thought was a real-world business perspective to government because, in the business world, I spent over 20 years in the high-tech industry, but it certainly was not unique"

Melissa Bean, Politician

"The markets where we've got real good presence are the older, more mature markets like Australia, and Western Europe - where we've only got 6,000 stores, compared to the US with 13,000"

Jim Cantalupo, Businessman

"But we had a pretty diversified portfolio of businesses around the world and things tended to offset each other. But one or two years ago, we had a lot of things happening at the same time"

Jim Cantalupo, Businessman

"Well, you would have to say what is the criteria to determine the success of any merger? It would have to be that the companies are stronger financially, that they took market share, and they are on a very steady footing in terms of their performance"

Kevin Rollins, Businessman

"Consumer electronics is a challenging one"

Kevin Rollins, Businessman

"And our size: The company this year is going to be close to $50 billion, so if that's the case and you can continue to grow that fast, I would rather put my energies to solving customer problems and growing our business than worrying about integrating and laying people off"

Kevin Rollins, Businessman

"Oftentimes, small business owners are unable to obtain reasonably priced financing and instead turn to higher priced forms of capital, such as credit cards"

Melissa Bean, Politician

"My Eighth District, like others, counts on these family businesses and their teams working hard to support their families and aid their communities. As retailers, these teams often bring different or unique products to the marketplace!"

Melissa Bean, Politician

"We will see the increasingly rapid rate of growth we've already been seeing in Colorado continue"

John Hickenlooper, Politician

"So Europe's a big driver. And at one point, if the euro hadn't devalued, they would have been making as much money as the US with half the stores. Returns were higher"

Jim Cantalupo, Businessman

"But, on balance, we seized the marketplace. We've got a great infrastructure. And yes, it's struggling in some areas because of some external factors and some internal factors"

Jim Cantalupo, Businessman

"These days I'm pretty much a businessman"

Wellington Mara, Businessman

"Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more responsive to consumers. In the United States, we import everything consumers want. So why not pharmaceuticals?"

Chuck Grassley, Politician

"I'm fighting for small businesses. I'm not fighting for Big Oil. Don't be confused. And there are thousands of businesses in this state that are at great risk. Meanwhile, the country keeps guzzling the oil, but we're out of work down here. We need to get back to work to build this region, and we intend to do so"

Mary Landrieu, Politician

"Well, we're trying to patch and fix and put a cast on a broken system here. You can call it what you want, but we'll continue to purchase power in a private market"

Gray Davis, Politician

"Thanks to President Bush and Republican principles, businesses now have more confidence to hire workers"

John Doolittle, Politician

"I employ 20 people in Vienna. The other 130 coworkers are pilots and flight companions. The overhead is limited with me. Reduces naturally the costs of my fliers!"

Niki Lauda, Athlete

"Competition is good and has served us well"

Harold H. Greene, Judge

"Nowadays, business is all about productivity - and our folks produce"

John Hoeven, Politician

"America has global trade with plenty of nations that provide inexpensive labor, but it's better for us when they're in our own hemisphere, rather than sending that business halfway around the world"

Ernest Istook, Politician

"Well, as you know, General Motors does not make hybrids. Ford only made 4,000 hybrids last year"

Ed Markey, Politician

"You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas"

Ed Markey, Politician

"Sometimes, instead of purchasing a commodity out and out, people want to buy only the use of it, for a longer or shorter period. The price paid for such temporary use is commonly called hire"

John Buchanan Robinson, Politician

"Most of our funding goes to organizations and is then used to leverage the private sector"

Jane Alexander, Actress

"It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not"

Gavin Rossdale, Musician

"Job creation requires a business friendly environment with a tax structure that is not punitive and a state government designed for efficient use of fewer tax dollars"

Kenneth Blackwell, Politician

"I think that might have been an element in it, and people have asked me that very thing. Remember, Disney is the majority shareholder, but it is not an operating division of Disney"

Gregg Easterbrook, Author

"The government's Small Business Administration reports that small businesses represent 99% of all employers in the U.S. and are responsible for generating well over half of new jobs created"

Ellen Tauscher, Politician

"The crucial point is always the own cost structure. Therefore I created a Low Cost alliance with Air Berlin"

Niki Lauda, Athlete

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