Entrepreneurship & Business: Business Quotes

"We are working hard to create a transparent and fair business environment"

Nguyen Xuan Phuc, Politician

"We need to create a conducive environment for businesses to thrive and grow"

Nguyen Xuan Phuc, Politician

"Canada has always been a strong supporter of China's accession to the WTO... We look forward to playing a constructive role in helping complete China's accession"

Pierre Pettigrew, Politician

"The newspaper is dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers and it's one business I'd never be in"

Sumner Redstone, Businessman

"Whenever you're successful, you owe that success to the people in the community, because they are the ones buying your product"

Carl Karcher, Businessman

"I'm a very determined businesswoman... I've got lots of things to do, and I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time"

Kim Basinger, Actress

"People who think it doesn't matter who owns our auto industry are flat wrong"

Robert Lutz, Writer

"The U.S. Supreme Court has established that the tribes own their water. What I'd like to focus on is doing something with the water that results in economic development"

Dave Freudenthal, Politician

"For most of the 20th century, we didn't just enjoy economic success in Michigan, we defined it. Our innovators and entrepreneurs created the world's most productive companies, and our unions made sure that productivity led to broad middle class prosperity"

Jennifer M. Granholm, Politician

"It is the quality of lending over the quantity of lending"

Lewis Thompson Preston, Businessman

"We have believed at CA that consolidation of this industry is something that was required ten years ago"

Sanjay Kumar, Businessman

"There are companies that are cutting their costs by over 50% by offshoring"

Sanjay Kumar, Businessman

"I think that a lot of companies are still amazingly price sensitive"

Sanjay Kumar, Businessman

"You have to remember a lot of business is very cyclical"

James Daly, Actor

"There was never any danger of Business 2.0 ever going under"

James Daly, Actor

"If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time"

Fran Tarkenton, Athlete

"You have to stick out the toughness of the business and form relationships with the people in it"

Rocco DiSpirito, Celebrity

"I've criticized President Bush for his failure to use his veto pen. There's plenty of blame to go around. The question is how to solve problems. It's not bailouts. What made America great? Free markets, free enterprise, manufacturing, job creation. That's how we're gonna do it, not by enlarging government"

Scott Brown, Politician

"Free enterprise is not a bad idea, and has produced art"

Ishmael Reed, Poet

"The commerce of India does not grow, nor does that of Portugal, or of Turkey; that, but that of the protected countries does increase, as has been shown in the case of Spain, and can now be shown in that of Germany"

Henry Charles Carey, Economist

"The Internet is a powerful way to make lots of money... But we are not going to buy Yahoo!"

Sumner Redstone, Businessman

"Whoever claims that economic competition represents 'survival of the fittest' in the sense of the law of the jungle provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics"

George Reisman, Economist

"Oh, if people only knew how this business has grown"

Pearl White, Musician

"They keep the old business. We keep the ongoing business"

Harvey Weinstein, Producer

"The way the business things work in Russia is, you have to meet people, you have to go through a certain amount of etiquette, and business things are done just simply by a shake of the hand and whether they like you or not"

Marc Almond, Musician

"Imminent GM bankruptcy was always fiction, created by Wall Street and the media"

Robert Lutz, Writer

"There is nothing to be embarrassed about being profitable"

Terry Semel, Businessman

"The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and do more of what you do"

David Joseph Schwartz, Businessman

"The most important thing for small businesses is getting the economy back on its feet. That - the key driver of small business activity is demand for their product, and that is what we are trying to do, getting the economy back on its feet. That's far more important than other factors"

Peter Orszag, Economist

"But you don't get into a business because of personal tastes"

Peter Munk, Businessman

"The weekend brought good news for our friends in the cattle industry. At long last, Japan has taken the steps needed for American beef to make its way back into the Japanese market"

Randy Neugebauer, Politician

"Business people have been made into these rock stars because they've made a lot of money"

James Daly, Actor

"The strength in our third-quarter financial results is cause for excitement. I'm particularly pleased that we continue to demonstrate impressive growth at the same time we are engaged in important merger discussions"

Bernard Ebbers, Businessman

"Our financial services and insurance cluster is one of Delaware's key economic drivers in the state"

Ruth Ann Minner, Politician

"CNN can still afford 36 bureaus around the world"

Jim Walton, Businessman

"How much greater would their contributions to the U.S. economy be if U.S. copyright owners could access foreign markets otherwise dominated by pirate product?"

Howard Berman, Politician

"Alabama farmers want a chance to complete fairly in Japan, but they can't if the Japanese won't let us in"

Mike Rogers, Writer

"I don't know anything about cars. A business is a business, and I think I can learn about cars. I'm not that old, and I think the business principles are the same"

Edward Whitacre, Jr., Businessman

"We are not in the business of iron ore. Whatever captive iron ore sources we have, we use it to make steel"

Lakshmi Mittal, Businessman

"We are beginning to see the benefits of global consolidation"

Lakshmi Mittal, Businessman

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