Entrepreneurship & Business: Business Quotes

"Twenty years and $40 billion. They seem like good round numbers"

Michael Dell, Businessman

"Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships"

Michael Dell, Businessman

"There's always a great deal of business to be transacted in one's office. There are always visitors, it seems to me, an unending stream of them, who come with letters of recommendation, or come actually on substantive business"

David Bruce, Writer

"Companies need to understand that the quicker they report product safety problems to CPSC, the quicker we can take action together and protect consumers from injuries"

Hal Stratton, Lawyer

"I think it's going to deliver on the promises we've said it's going to and it is going to be the most successful product ever to come into the handheld environment, and it just happens to have a number of different functions"

Ian Jackson, Scientist

"The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives"

Arthur C. Brooks, Author

"When you are led by values, it doesn't cost your business, it helps your business"

Jerry Greenfield, Businessman

"We measured our success not just by how much money we made, but by how much we contributed to the community. It was a two-part bottom line"

Jerry Greenfield, Businessman

"Now, when we face a problem like global warming, and you understand that the biggest impacts on global warming come from business and industry, I think business needs to take a leading role"

Jerry Greenfield, Businessman

"Business can be a source of progressive change"

Jerry Greenfield, Businessman

"I recognize that virtually every company that comes in here has a perspective. It's often not difficult to understand why they have the perspective that they have"

Charles James

"Every single country that has an auto industry is stepping forward to help that auto industry. Why wouldn't we help this industry too? Because it needs 3.5 million jobs"

Jennifer M. Granholm, Politician

"So far, Indian companies have focused more on customer application. This needs to shift to packaged software for sectors such as banking and financial services"

Sanjay Kumar, Businessman

"India has the unique advantages of having the biggest domestic market and this should support IT companies"

Sanjay Kumar, Businessman

"In 1979, I teamed up with my friend and business partner, Bill DeWitt, and together we formed an oil and gas company that invested through limited partnerships in oil and gas exploration"

Mercer Reynolds, Businessman

"We love our business. We have never been more enthusiastic about cable and its future"

Brian Roberts, Businessman

"Business is other people's money"

Delphine de Girardin, Novelist

"We understand that the real market value of Blockbuster may never be fully realized as a wholly owned part of Viacom"

Sumner Redstone, Businessman

"Viacom's results for the first quarter put the company on a fast track for another record year in 2004"

Sumner Redstone, Businessman

"The partnership over the 28 years we had the company afforded him the opportunity to experiment and live his life as an artist and a label honcho and do what he wanted to do. It afforded me the same opportunity"

Jerry Moss, Businessman

"The publisher is a middleman; he calls the tune to which the whole rest of the trade dances; and he does so because he pays the piper"

Geoffrey Faber, Publisher

"The people on the business side in the music business are kind of different from the theatre business. I think it's partly because there are different pressures on the industries"

Tim Curry, Actor

"I like doing business in a black city"

Yaphet Kotto, Actor

"There's show and there's business. Business is a whole other beat"

Omar Epps, Actor

"For this to make sense, of course, it would have to be a fair financial deal for us. But I think this could be the occasion for us to build a true partnership in content. And we're especially interested because interactive services are a key field for us"

Jean-Marie Messier, Businessman

"They will therefore not be in a hurry to risk their entire business by expanding too rapidly, but they are the major indicator of whether the manufacturing industry accepts there is a sustainable business in RFID production"

Mike Marsh, Athlete

"Do we want in this nation to lose the backbone of manufacturing in this country? Do we want to be a nation that doesn't want to manufacture anything?"

Jennifer M. Granholm, Politician

"There is no question of the benefits that opening a market of a billion people will bring to American businesses. But as I said last year, this will test China and the world trade system"

William M. Daley, Politician

"If I were to retire, I would keep my family's interest in the company the same and say, Don't sell"

Sheldon Adelson, Businessman

"And no again: my studio is not a first or any step toward becoming any type of businessman on my part"

Billy Sheehan, Musician

"We don't want protectionism at the heart of the European Union"

Guy Verhofstadt, Statesman

"London is the clearing-house of the world"

Joseph Chamberlain, Politician

"The greatest business people I've met are determined to get it right, no matter what the cost"

Michael Gerber, Author

"The problem with the auto industry is layered upon the lack of consumer confidence. People are not buying cars. I don't care whether they're or American cars, or international cars"

Jennifer M. Granholm, Politician

"The nation will benefit in the long term if it continues to be open to foreign expertise. This will help the country to establish its business culture and environment faster, based on international best practice"

Hassanal Bolkiah, Statesman

"The industry's at war. I think it's about control. You can make all of the financial arguments that the industry has been shooting itself in the foot, but it is an industry built on a foundation of ownership and exploitation of intellectual property rights"

Don Rose, Radio host

"They demanded a monopoly of the coasting trade, in order to get higher freights than they could get in open competition with the carriers of the world"

Robert Toombs, Politician

"Today we're focused on small acquisitions to add technology where necessary. I think it's fair to say we're not out looking for a large one, but I think it's also very fair to say that as a public company you can never say never"

Sanjay Kumar, Businessman

"For a Canadian, natural resources were a good fit"

Peter Munk, Businessman

"The general proposition is that the resources that will be utilized are the ones that contribute most to the overall efficiency of the production system. The third parameter has to do with our commercial world, our search for profits"

Marvin Harris, Scientist

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