Entrepreneurship & Business: Business Quotes

"We're thrilled to expand our relationship, knowing that with the great team at the Music Group, Word, and Warner Bros., and with their proven record of excellence, we're looking ahead to an even brighter future for Curb"

Mike Curb, Musician

"I think you need a really strong businessperson running the state, a person who's used to turning negatives into positives, which is what happens in business"

Mike Curb, Musician

"As regards this country, in which protection has always to some extent existed, it is the best customer that England ever had, and our demands upon her grow most steadily and regularly under protection"

Henry Charles Carey, Economist

"It is clear that a temporary increase in the cap is needed to ensure high-tech companies can hire the specialized personnel they need to continue to help fuel California's economic growth"

Pete Wilson, Politician

"I would guess that any criticism about Wal-Mart could have some element of truth with 1,500,000 people"

Lee Scott, Businessman

"I just think that it's maybe fashionable today to try to take individual actions and individual failures and take the broadest possible brush and try to paint a company"

Lee Scott, Businessman

"That means following a very restrictive fiscal and monetary policy which will squeeze the monopolies and cut their subsidies. On the micro level we will allow other economic agents, both domestic and foreign, to compete with them"

Vaclav Klaus, Statesman

"But we didn't have the financial structure, like the right attorneys, the right managers, the right accountants, and we were going against the grain of what black entertainers is supposed to do"

Solomon Burke, Musician

"The expansion of the market creates a need for enhanced and more regular supply, and this in turn impels commercial capital to acquire control of production as well"

Rudolf Hiferding, Economist

"Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation"

Jane Byrne, Politician

"As you know, the business is cyclic with styles. It's no different from clothing styles"

Juice Newton, Musician

"Now, what produces a want of demand? A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce"

Joseph Hume, Scientist

"Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials"

Joseph Hume, Scientist

"At CNN, our view is that good journalism equals good business"

Jim Walton, Businessman

"The death tax destroys family businesses and stifles investment that leads to increases in jobs and personal income. As a result, 70 percent of family-owned businesses are not passed on to the next generation and 87 percent do not make it to the third generation"

Jennifer Dunn, Politician

"One-newspaper towns are not good because all the surviving newspaper does is print money. They make 25 percent on their money every year, and if they go down to 22 percent, they start laying people off"

Pat Oliphant, Cartoonist

"A key U.S. initiative in this trade war must be to develop reliable trading partners in the world"

Jo Ann Emerson, Politician

"No partnership between two independent companies, no matter how well run, can match the speed, effectiveness, responsiveness, and efficiency of a solely owned company"

Edward Whitacre, Jr., Businessman

"Small businesses are the backbone of job creation in South Carolina, but we're not maximizing our potential when we've got what's effectively the highest income tax rate in the Southeast holding us back"

Mark Sanford, Politician

"You see, I don't like to be really too commercial about things, but in this business you've just got to be commercial; otherwise the films don't make money, and you don't make films, and as a long as a commodity is selling it's silly to kill it dead"

Peter Cushing, Actor

"Privatization of the state-owned economy is not yet on the agenda. We cannot do it immediately; my colleagues would not agree to it. But we must put all forms of ownership on an equal footing immediately and let different types of ownership compete with the state firms"

Vaclav Klaus, Statesman

"Getting back to the point, a guy like Jerry, he deals with the business, and he doesn't see it as being evil or ugly, it's what you have to do, and I mean, I know there's some really ugly parts to it, and parts which drive me nuts, but not in the same way as music business"

Trevor Rabin, Musician

"So, if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer, when they know they are not getting another offer, then I do it this way"

Uwe Boll, Director

"Follow sound business trends, not fashion trends"

Janice Dickinson, Model

"The time has come for the American government to recognize the damage that has occurred to our economy, and to take firm action to curtail what I believe is both unfair and illegal foreign competition"

Norm Dicks, Politician

"A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence"

Marvin Bower, Businessman

"So the competition isn't once you got the license, running the station; it's getting the license"

Robert McChesney, Critic

"In the business world, lower profits reflect less demand for your product. But in government, the opposite is true - demand for our services increases in hard times"

Sonny Perdue, Politician

"You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses"

Rachel Griffiths, Actress

"Currently, I'm working with a company called DRL Promotions with my partners Dan Wise and Luis De Cubas. We're currently representing over 30 fighters"

Roberto Duran, Athlete

"There are some very real areas where working together is critical, whether it's talking about public policy issues, enforcement, or how to work together to facilitate new business opportunities. The RIAA has gotten much more involved in that"

Hilary Rosen, Businesswoman

"The coal industry has helped fuel this Nation for 150 years, and coal can be used to heat our homes, power our economy, and protect our Nation for at least another 150 years, if we continue to use it"

Tim Murphy, Politician

"Global overcapacity in steel production can no longer be ignored. Foreign governments' intervention in steel markets has had a devastating impact on the U.S. industry"

Max Baucus, Politician

"A lot of the American press at the time was saying 'Just watch what happens when Bertelsmann tries to buy EMI, that will be a moment of truth that will show the Commission's true colors.' Well, that deal never happened either"

Mario Monti, Public Servant

"Slovakia's joining the OECD in 1999 is totally dependent on meeting economic reforms required, such as transparency and legislation that permits fair and open conduct of trade and business"

John Mica, Politician

"The Arena League is the best thing that could have happened to me because I get to run the whole process. I'm seeing not only the football side but the business side"

John Elway, Athlete

"This is certainly not the first case in which a merger approved in one place hasn't gone through in the other. There was a case last year where the merger between two EU companies was approved here and blocked in the U.S"

Mario Monti, Public Servant

"Reference to the territory, and total disregard for the nationality of the companies, is, of course, the best guarantee that competition assessment remain just that and doesn't get affected by trade or other considerations"

Mario Monti, Public Servant

"Having cakes as a business certainly changes things for me - I don't now sit at home doing a cake for the fun of it anymore. But it's an extremely happy and pleasureable business to run because people are generally buying cakes for celebrations"

Jane Asher, Actress

"Career Education is one of the largest global providers in the higher education sector. We are projecting to be over $1.1 billion in revenue in 2003, which puts us number one in our sector for onsite education and number two for online education in terms of revenue"

John Larson, Politician

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