Entrepreneurship & Business: Business Quotes

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"Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach"

Woodrow Wilson, Politician

Woodrow Wilson

"Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

Lord Chesterfield

"The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top"

Doug Coupland, Author

Doug Coupland

"The big companies and their short-term bottom line rule this country"

Alexandra Paul, Actress

Alexandra Paul

"If any of you have seen my shows, you know that I don't skimp on them, and the same is true for the gym. We spend what it takes to make a globally first-class gym"

Madonna Ciccone, Entertainer

Madonna Ciccone

"One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt"

Lee Iacocca, Businessman

Lee Iacocca

"In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits"

Lee Iacocca, Businessman

Lee Iacocca

"Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it"

Lee Iacocca, Businessman

Lee Iacocca

"The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better"

Lee Iacocca, Businessman

Lee Iacocca

"You say he's childish, but he's very professional about business transactions"

Martin Bashir, Journalist

Martin Bashir

"The best of life is the exercise of ingenuity-in design, in finance, in flying, in business"

Bill Lear, Inventor

Bill Lear

"The growth of means of transport has created a world market and an opportunity for division of labor embracing all the developed and most of the undeveloped states"

Christian Lous Lange, Politician

Christian Lous Lange

"Modern techniques have torn down state frontiers, both economical and intellectual. The growth of means of transport has created a world market and an opportunity for division of labor embracing all the developed and most of the undeveloped states"

Christian Lous Lange, Politician

Christian Lous Lange

"I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other"

William Howard Taft, President

"My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way"

Al Capone, Criminal

"They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers"

Frederic Bastiat, Economist

"When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done!"

Dennis Weaver, Actor

Dennis Weaver

"Business has to change the way it does business, or we will make no significant changes in the way we relate to the earth"

Dennis Weaver, Actor

Dennis Weaver

"Business must be the solution, not the problem"

Dennis Weaver, Actor

Dennis Weaver

"To me, America is just another market"

Quentin Tarantino, Director

Quentin Tarantino

"You can't run a business or anything else on a theory"

Harold S. Geneen, Businessman

Harold S. Geneen

"It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one"

Harold S. Geneen, Businessman

Harold S. Geneen

"It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality"

Harold S. Geneen, Businessman

Harold S. Geneen

"Like many businessmen of genius, he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly"

Mario Puzo, Novelist

Mario Puzo

"A corporation's responsibility is to the shareholders, not its retirees and employees. Companies are doing everything they can to get rid of pension plans and they will succeed"

Ben Stein, Actor

"To business that we love, we rise bedtime, and go to't with delight"

Sydney Smith, Clergyman

Sydney Smith

"To keep the record straight, it wasn't always John and Yoko. We've all accused one another of various business things; we tend to be pretty paranoid by now, as you can imagine. There's a lot of money involved"

Paul McCartney, Musician

"The more one produces, the less one gets"

Norman Ralph Augustine, Author

"Decreased business base increases overhead. So does increased business base"

Norman Ralph Augustine, Author

"Protectionism will do little to create jobs, and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs"

Alan Greenspan, Economist

"It costs a lot to build bad products"

Norman Ralph Augustine, Author

"Most libertarians are worried about government, but not worried about business. I think we need to be worrying about business in exactly the same way we are worrying about government"

John Perry Barlow, Writer

John Perry Barlow

"Larry wanted us to reposition the tower. We wouldn't, and won't. He's been holding back our fees. We want to get paid. And that's it. It'll get solved and we'll carry on with planning Ground Zero"

Daniel Libeskind, Architect

Daniel Libeskind

"Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time"

Edgar Watson Howe, Editor

"We stopped doing my clothing line about five years ago, so it isn't available anymore"

Rue McClanahan, Actress

"I forget what the relevant American rate is, but I can tell you that our goal is to have a combined federal-provincial corporate tax rate of no more than 25 percent. We're on target to do that by 2012. We will have significantly - by a significant margin the lowest corporate tax rates in the G-7, and that's our - our government's objective"

Stephen Harper, Politician

Stephen Harper

"Supply chains cannot tolerate even 24 hours of disruption. So if you lose your place in the supply chain because of wild behavior you could lose a lot. It would be like pouring cement down one of your oil wells"

Thomas Friedman, Journalist

"We have in this country a federal government that increasingly is engaged in trying to determine which business, which regions, which industries will succeed, which will not, through a whole range of economic development, regional development, corporate subsidization programs"

Stephen Harper, Politician

Stephen Harper

"You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business"

Victor Kiam, Businessman

"Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it"

Peter Lynch, Businessman

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