Entrepreneurship & Business: Business Quotes

"I am not for raising taxes in a recession, especially when it comes to job creators that we need so desperately to start creating jobs again"

Eric Cantor, Politician

"In a couple of years, the Chinese will be seen as regular participants in international industry. Their companies have to report to shareholders as well as to the Chinese authorities. They need to make money, they have to be efficient"

Daniel Yergin, Author

"But eventually it's a question of access: Getting access to fields is on top of the oil companies' agenda. We see a substantial build-up of supply occurring over the coming years"

Daniel Yergin, Author

"The North Sea was supposed to run out in the 1980s. Then in the 1990s. And now production is still on-line"

Daniel Yergin, Author

"The month of January, we were number one. Now, this is something we're proud of, because we recognize we're up against a formidable operation there at CNN"

Brit Hume, Journalist

"I got through college realizing business was repugnant"

Bruce McCulloch, Actor

"Unfortunately, in collective bargaining, one party or the other too often tries to gain an advantage - a bargain, like buying something in a store for less than it is worth"

Charles E. Wilson, Businessman

"Our expanding Canadian operations are concrete evidence of General Motors' confidence in Canada"

Charles E. Wilson, Businessman

"In my fifty years of experience and memory, I have seen the most amazing increase in the standard of living of a people ever achieved anywhere in the world. This is why I am so sure that our system of free competition and industrial development is sound and must be preserved"

Charles E. Wilson, Businessman

"It's a battle to be seen in the world of advertisers and in the world of business as a serious force"

Brit Hume, Journalist

"So if I die, somebody else from the corporation will take over the business"

Alex Chiu, Businessman

"Small businesses are the backbone of our economy"

Ellen Tauscher, Politician

"By getting into distribution and production, I am actually widening my base"

Ajay Devgan, Actor

"The Russians are turning east to the Chinese - to the Europeans' surprise. It always seemed to me that the relationship between Russia and China would shift from being based in Marx and Lenin to being based in oil and gas"

Daniel Yergin, Author

"Cycles of shortage and surplus characterize the entire history of oil"

Daniel Yergin, Author

"Nobody's profitable at this moment, because recession is on; advertising dollars are down, and expenses are way up. So that kind of belies the situation that you would expect, because the ratings are way up everywhere"

Brit Hume, Journalist

"Earlier, I used to charge territories instead of my fees as an actor, but I realised it was better to keep the two apart. Now, I take my fees in cash, for acting, and keep the distribution thing separate"

Ajay Devgan, Actor

"They get, you know, whatever they want from their earnings, and their earnings go into their own company"

Brian Epstein, Businessman

"Our view is that economic isolationism is the wrong way to go. Vibrant, successful growing economies that advance the interests of their citizens engage the global economy. And, we're committed to engaging the global economy"

John W. Snow, Economist

"And one of our points of continuing conversation with our trading partners is the urgency of their taking steps to remove barriers to their improved growth performance"

John W. Snow, Economist

"You know we're going to control the insurance companies"

Joe Biden, President

"On the whole, and this comment can get me in a lot of trouble, I find that retailers in the comic book business are not business people. They're fans who've gotten themselves shops"

Rob Walton, Athlete

"It's wherever business rules, business is going to get the politicians they want, because they control the money, and money controls the power"

Rob Walton, Athlete

"First of all: no one in their right mind would sign an exclusive contract"

Rob Walton, Athlete

"I am no party man in this matter in any degree; and if I have any objection to the motion it is this, that whereas it is a motion to inquire into the manufacturing distress of the country, it should have been a motion to inquire into manufacturing and agricultural distress"

Richard Cobden, Businessman

"Week by week my orders grew, and the flat of the old mill soon assumed a very busy aspect"

James Nasmyth, Inventor

"In course of time the Brothers Cowper removed the manufacture of their printing machines from London, to Manchester. There they found skilled and energetic workmen, ready to carry their plans into effect"

James Nasmyth, Inventor

"Combining economic growth with the production and use of renewable energy sources, while fostering entrepreneurship and solidarity, is an ideal that we should strive for"

Nataša Pirc Musar, President

"In very general terms, we note with deep satisfaction the new interest that your businessmen are taking in our country"

Félix Houphouët-Boigny, President

"Do you know why certain people succeed in business and you don't? Because they know something you don't: they have invested in knowledge"

Jordi Segués, Entrepreneur

"I think of us less as an AI safety company, and more I think of us as a company that's focused on public benefit"

Dario Amodei, Scientist

"Building a World Class Company is a commitment to the integration of passion, purpose, and practice"

Michael Gerber, Author

"The problem with most failing businesses is not that their owners don't know enough about finance, marketing, management, and operations - they don't, but those things are easy enough to learn - but that they spend their time and energy defending what they think they know. My experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren't so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more"

Michael Gerber, Author

"If your business depends on you, you don't own a business-you have a job. And it's the worst job in the world because you're working for a lunatic!"

Michael Gerber, Author

"Great businesses are not built by extraordinary people, but by ordinary people doing extraordinary things"

Michael Gerber, Author

"Systems run the business and people run the systems"

Michael Gerber, Author

"If your business requires your presence, you don't have a business, you have a job"

Michael Gerber, Author

"Systems permit ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results predictably"

Michael Gerber, Author

"Trust is the new currency in business"

Julie Sweet, Businesswoman

"Industry is extremely slow in readjusting itself to the manufacture of modern consumer goods"

Yuri Andropov, Statesman

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