Entrepreneurship & Business: Business Quotes

"By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market"

Vaclav Klaus, Statesman

"It will be said, however, that protection tends to destroy commerce, the civilizer of mankind. Directly the reverse, however, is the fact"

Henry Charles Carey, Economist

"We simply have to become more competitive as a state if we're going to be successful in creating jobs, bringing capital investment and raising income levels here in South Carolina"

Mark Sanford, Politician

"But they are also better, our competitors are better because Wal-Mart exists"

Lee Scott, Businessman

"Less emphasis on inventories, I think, may tend to dampen business cycles, because business cycles are typically in the grasp of inventory cycles and heavy industry cycles"

Paul A. Volcker, Economist

"The course of business shapes public opinion"

Marvin Bower, Businessman

"With the permanent elimination of this tax, farmers and business owners will have the sense of security they need to plan for the financial future of their business or farm and their family"

Doc Hastings, Politician

"Since I arrived at CNN, it has grown into one of the largest and most trusted news organizations in the world"

Jim Walton, Businessman

"Big business has no party and never shall have"

Haley Barbour, Politician

"We are taking a business-as-usual position at my agency, though business before 9/11 wasn't that hot either!"

Richard Curtis, Writer

"These subsidies from four European governments, which include aircraft launch assistance, capital injections, debt forgiveness, have enabled Airbus to develop and range market airliners well below cost"

Norm Dicks, Politician

"Well, we have a good working relationship with Microsoft at the development level. But let's not kid ourselves, this is a company with enormous resources and talented people, and there is a certain pride that comes along with that for them and for us"

John W. Thompson, Businessman

"U.S. corn exports to CAFTA countries will benefit from reduced tariffs and duty-free access for corn products"

John Shimkus, Politician

"In my career, people in the record business have been rockin' in the same ol' boat. They all crooks - I'll say it clear and loud - especially the big ones"

John Lee Hooker, Musician

"I mean, what Fiat had, it was not very big, it was something like forty or fifty million dollars, but it's enough to get revolving credit, to get starting away again, the buying of new machinery"

Gianni Agnelli, Businessman

"But if you look at WorldCom, which is the biggest failure to date, they grew dramatically, they were buying companies that were bigger than they were, and they were doing it off inflated stock"

Don Nickles, Politician

"It's a piece of property that, if you're going to have a development out here, you need to have a golf course because you need to take care of the effluent water being created by the development"

Tom Kite, Athlete

"You understand, of course, that I can only get you access"

Edward Bennett Williams, Lawyer

"Bill Gates finds people in Russia to hire them to Microsoft. That's the Russian interest in this process"

Anatoly Chubais, Politician

"Will the industry outsource more? I think it depends on the client base"

Andrew Gould, Businessman

"Now between '45 and '48, things would change enormously, 'cos we'd had credit in United States, credit from the Bank of America, credit from the Import-Export Bank, and people had started working again"

Gianni Agnelli, Businessman

"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices"

George Adam Smith, Clergyman

"There were eleven publishers in New York City, and when it was all over, I think it went down to four or five, and then finally just the three of them, the Big Three"

Dan DeCarlo, Cartoonist

"Nobody wants to open a business near a Superfund site and risk being sued"

Fred Thompson, Politician

"So I've learned in the past, if a company approaches me and they want something like this, or something like that that I've done and I turn them down, they're going to do it anyhow"

Danny Elfman, Musician

"We got to this point by constantly perfecting our products"

Connie Sellecca, Actress

"Corona Light has had very faithful stewardship from us from the very beginning in 1989"

Carlos Alvarez, Writer

"The reason we have not gone to newspapers is because it's a slow growth industry and I think they are dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers in 10 years. I read newspapers every day. I even read Murdoch's Wall Street Journal"

Sumner Redstone, Businessman

"I used to be kind of bitter and jealous as well, but I get it. It's business"

Carlos Alazraqui, Actor

"What we did ten years ago with the PlayStation was a phenomenal success story for the company. That product had a ten year life cycle, which has never been done in this industry"

Ian Jackson, Scientist

"The definition of winning has become distorted. If winning the rights to a property brings with it hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, what have you won? When faced with the prospect of heavy financial losses, we have consistently walked away and have done so again"

Dick Ebersol, Businessman

"So it's really for us about new products, because we have released a lot of new products"

Sanjay Kumar, Businessman

"When we came then to the 1967 negotiations, we had the problem of one market between two countries fully under the control of the American companies that owned the facilities on both sides of the border"

Leonard Woodcock, Activist

"You don't help your enterprise with a policy of protection"

Jacques Santer, Politician

"Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed"

Curtis Carlson, Businessman

"We've been able to access deals that under our former relationship with Disney - with tax advantages and strategic partners - that we just weren't able to do"

Harvey Weinstein, Producer

"If we want to secure the best jobs in the future, we must make America the best place in the world to do business"

Jim DeMint, Politician

"You have to remember when we were going once a month, we were putting out issues that were 480 pages, and people were complaining that these were too big, I can't get through a 480 page magazine every month"

James Daly, Actor

"The collective energy of everyone is what really made Business 2.0 exciting"

James Daly, Actor

"I still believe that the mission of Business 2.0 is very strong, very fundamental, and we're really at the beginning of where they're going to take us"

James Daly, Actor

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