Entrepreneurship & Business: Business Quotes

"In the 1950s, I proposed the survivor method of determining the efficient sizes of enterprises, and worked on delivered price systems, vertical integration, and similar topics"

George Stigler, Economist

"If I've learned anything in this business, it's that you have to be fearless"

Jody Watley, Musician

"There is no free market in oil"

Peter DeFazio, Politician

"When we can figure out a way to really tour and make a profit, then we'll do it again"

Michael McKean, Actor

"A number of us had conversations with the Kerry campaign about what he was going to say about CAFE. What he told us was that he did not want to sacrifice jobs and that he wanted to work with the auto industry to achieve that goal"

Jennifer Granholm, Politician

"You have got to have an agent. It's a business. But I think there is a way to be artful and commercial at the same time"

Elizabeth Banks, Actress

"You mentioned the Free Trade Agreement, and yes, I can't tell you how pleased we are that Morocco is one of the countries that our country is going to begin negotiating a Free Trade Agreement with"

Donald Evans, Public Servant

"I am going to be announcing today, that we will have a business delegation come to this country sometime in the future, where we will bring businesses from America to Morocco, to show them the vast business opportunities here"

Donald Evans, Public Servant

"One is that that's the way we started, and we thought there would be more value and less confusion if the business model was just based on delivering news that's of value to Web sites"

Jay Chiat, Businessman

"I think in certain areas the demand is greater than it has ever been, and my business is better than it's been in 30 years. The music business is so precarious, as you know-you've got to make it while you can make it, and that's exactly what we're doing"

George Shearing, Musician

"We target people who understand that relationships are the lifeline of a small company"

David Rose, Musician

"Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen"

Dick Armey, Politician

"They realize that spending millions to save billions is just good business"

Jack Abramoff, Criminal

"The Corona Extra brand was launched in Austin, Texas. From Austin, where it was exclusively for three or four months, it became more widely available in that state and in others, primarily in the Southwest and Western United States"

Carlos Alvarez, Writer

"If the planters carry politics into the fields, they will find it bad business"

Charles E. Merrill, Businessman

"If a lobbyist sets up shop, or a lawyer, in which they're receiving income through what is something like a tax loophole so that it's not counting as corporate income, that is what this is counting as a small business"

Austan Goolsbee, Public Servant

"The studios are very much business. Maybe it was always that way. It is really commercial now. Judgments are made and directions are given to make the cash register ring"

Dianne Wiest, Actress

"Every retailer, when they price their goods, looks at their total cost overall. When they have costs go up, they'll price their products accordingly"

Dan Butler, Actor

"It's like night and day... To do business, in Europe, there is no bull, they are pretty straightforward"

Caprice Bourret, Model

"Our marine terminals are invaluable commerce infrastructure, not only to our country but also for the many foreign manufacturers who sell primarily in the U.S. market"

Dana Rohrabacher, Politician

"The one thing we know today is we can't continue to do business the way we have in the past"

Bud Selig, Celebrity

"That's just the way this business works. You're a reliable commodity"

Christy Romano, Actress

"This marketplace where people can buy insurance who don't have it today - a competitive marketplace: That's an idea that both sides embrace"

David Axelrod, Public Servant

"The place where we don't agree is on whether there should be some restraint on insurance companies and whether they should be allowed to run wild. We believe there should be some restraint; some on the other side don't think so"

David Axelrod, Public Servant

"People want to build new circuits around the world and they say: 'We'll come to Silverstone and have a look how it's done', and I tell them to stay away"

Bernie Ecclestone, Businessman

"Businesses should no longer be allowed to depress wages by hiring illegal labor and then falsely claim that Americans don't want to do the jobs"

Dana Rohrabacher, Politician

"The wireless segment is approximately 50 percent of our business... We believe this is an industry-wide phenomenon and that we are, in fact, maintaining if not gaining market share"

Antonio Perez, Statesman

"The digital business is a fantastic business to be in. The only thing you have to do is build a cost structure for a declining business, which is different from the structure for a growing business"

Antonio Perez, Statesman

"The whole industry is so screwed up by economics. It's disgusting to me"

Armand Assante, Actor

"I responded that we needed a private sector to improve the market situation and make people's lives easier"

Alexander Dubcek, Politician

"Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them - cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden from which their on-line competitors are effectively exempt"

Bill Delahunt, Politician

"In my district, the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles handle approximately 44 percent of all of the goods delivered to American shores, yet they are in constant need of revenue for facilities, improvements and upgrades to roads and bridges and rails"

Dana Rohrabacher, Politician

"If we want more trade in the world, we should establish bilateral trade agreements with other democratic countries. That way we can control the decision-making process. The major economic countries of the world will enter into those agreements"

Dana Rohrabacher, Politician

"You want to have stability in the commercial aspect of your operation"

Andy Taylor

"In the economic sphere, the program demanded thorough decentralization and managerial independence of enterprises, as well as legalization of small-scale private enterprise, especially in the service sector"

Alexander Dubcek, Politician

"Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to make a better article"

Philip Armour

"Employers need to recognize that the world has changed, and there are people who would like to help them provide solution in ways that are new, modern, and that add value to companies"

Andy Stern, Activist

"We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements, and relating them to information systems requirements"

Tony Scott, Director

"The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes"

Charles Sturt, Explorer

"The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period"

Todd Gitlin, Sociologist

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