Entrepreneurship & Business: Business Quotes

"One out of every 100 families in Vermont was a part owner of Ben and Jerry's"

Jerry Greenfield, Businessman

"I might say that when the settlement was made, the Nixon administration issued what they called a second inflation alert, in which the General Motors settlement was branded as being inflationary and bad for the country"

Leonard Woodcock, Activist

"There certainly was a lot of potential in the air for doing a magazine which focused on the way business, in particular, was being transformed by the Internet"

James Daly, Actor

"If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business"

Lee Kuan Yew, Statesman

"I don't think that Yahoo or any other Internet company should try to become a television network. We will be nowhere if we have to create our own content"

Terry Semel, Businessman

"Free is not an alternative. My company did not turn a profit last year"

Howard Stringer, Businessman

"I get a bit of a kick out of exporting private enterprise and incentives"

Fred L. Turner, Businessman

"When we go into an industry, we go all the way"

Charles Phillips

"Europe should stick to an open economy, to competition, and we should refuse protectionism. It will not save one single job in the long run to protect non-competitive industries"

Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Statesman

"I myself am a builder and get totally excited about building Yahoo! as a brand and building it into a bigger and better company. That's what I intend to do"

Terry Semel, Businessman

"We very much regret that our merger with Sprint was not allowed to proceed"

Bernard Ebbers, Businessman

"Our communications services revenue growth is being driven by continued strong top-line performance in data, Internet and international - three of the fastest growing and most profitable areas within communications services"

Bernard Ebbers, Businessman

"In business everyone is out to grab, to fight, to win. Either you are the under or the over dog. It is up to you to be on top"

Alice Foote MacDougall, Writer

"What the Democrats don't seem to understand is that higher taxes mean fewer American jobs and less American production"

Lynn Westmoreland, Politician

"If life was so easy that you could just go buy success, there would be a lot more successful companies in the world. Successful enterprises are built from the ground up"

Lou Gerstner, Businessman

"You know, we opened a record number of stores last year"

Lee Scott, Businessman

"One of the things that strikes me is: so many of the critics are people whose lifestyle doesn't change when the price of fuel changes, or if they keep a Wal-Mart store out of their area"

Lee Scott, Businessman

"Then I was president of the Bakelite Corporation from 1910 to 1930"

Leo Baekeland, Inventor

"We're the real estate industry - not the manufacturers"

Joe Murray, Artist

"Certainly there are bubble-like valuations of certain companies, but I don't think anyone out there believes that we're going to go back to doing business the way we used to do business"

James Daly, Actor

"That's the biggest rule in Hollywood: Don't spend your own money"

Pauly Shore, Comedian

"The hardware manufacturers, game designers, cable companies and computer companies and in fact, film studios are going to ensure that this thing marches on. They know that they are going to make an enormous amount of money from it"

Thomas Dolby, Musician

"When approved, the SAFE Port Act will make progress toward protecting the physical infrastructure of our seaports as well as our national economy, which is so clearly dependent on the commercial shipping business"

Lucille Roybal-Allard, Politician

"In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs"

Wayne Allard, Politician

"The history of trying to start a daily where there already is one is that it has never worked"

John Morton, Clergyman

"The idea that maybe you don't have to own a car if you only need one occasionally may catch on, just like time-sharing caught on in real estate"

Steve Case, Businessman

"From a relatively early age I got interested in business"

Steve Case, Businessman

"The biggest challenge for everybody to realize out there is that we're in a very complicated business world and that we're all under one umbrella and it's very challenging for everybody to figure out where the priorities lie and where the loyalties lie"

Scott Bakula, Actor

"Business 2.0 was hugely profitable last year, and will be profitable this year"

James Daly, Actor

"In the immediate postwar years, the whole of Europe was in a recession. So first of all, it helped us step out of a recession; it gave a certain amount of speed to the economy. But that was the first step"

Giovanni Agnelli, Designer

"Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one"

Carlos Ghosn, Businessman

"There were around 1,000 stores when I was made president"

Fred L. Turner, Businessman

"Honda opened its first assembly line in Lincoln in November 2001"

Mike Rogers, Writer

"Penn State has also continued to be a leader in Pennsylvania's largest industry: agriculture"

Tim Holden, Politician

"China will be the answer to Japan's problems"

Carlos Ghosn, Businessman

"The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised"

Carl Bernstein, Journalist

"We're kidding on that. One of the things I insisted upon when we went into this project was that we are full partners, going fifty-fifty, both on the money and on the say of what's going on with the books"

Robert Asprin, Author

"We all agree that manufacturers have a right to ensure that fake goods are not marketed in their names and that their own goods are not marketed under fake names"

John Conyers, Politician

"Challenging unfairly subsidized products, fighting counterfeit goods and intellectual property theft and holding countries accountable for an unfair currency regime will help American companies remain competitive"

Virginia Foxx, Politician

"Small business in America is booming. The job creator in America, small business, is absolutely moving ahead"

Pete Domenici, Politician

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