Entrepreneurship & Business: Business Quotes

"The deal is that you can do it, you don't really owe me anything, but at the end of it, I own the film. Then I can actually go out and reprint or not reprint if it I want"

Todd McFarlane, Artist

"It can't really happen today, the way it did back then, and part of that is because I think there's a bit of a competitive scare over at Marvel and DC, so they lock guys up with exclusive contracts"

Todd McFarlane, Artist

"Small businesses drive this economy, and it is unacceptable that the President's budget proposal does not give them the tools they need to be successful"

Solomon Ortiz, Politician

"Only 4 percent of all the companies owned in Scotland have their head offices in Scotland"

Sean Connery, Actor

"Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does"

Paul Samuelson, Economist

"The voluntary approach to corporate social responsibility has failed in many cases"

David Suzuki, Scientist

"On the other hand, we raised $25 million by going public. It's that money that we used to build this company, to build the circulation, to build a high profile and to hire staff that made Salon what it is today"

David Talbot, Journalist

"This nation's 23 million small businesses need a budget that reflects their value to the economy"

Solomon Ortiz, Politician

"Levi's can produce many more Western jeans than we can and make them at a better price"

Calvin Klein, Designer

"The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover"

Al Franken, Comedian

"People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen, rather than production or design people"

Calvin Klein, Designer

"I'm in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold"

Calvin Klein, Designer

"I am a businessman. This is what I do each and every day. I love it. I love coming to work. I never have a bad day"

Magic Johnson, Athlete

"While no one railroad can completely duplicate another line, two or more may compete at particular points"

John Moody, Businessman

"I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right"

Gene Fowler, Journalist

"I never went to business school. I was just bumbling through a lot of my life. I was like the guy behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz"

David Geffen, Businessman

"Business is more exciting than any game"

Kitty O'Neill Collins, Politician

"I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now"

Magic Johnson, Athlete

"The construction of extensive railways, however, and particularly the consolidation of small, experimental lines into large systems, dates from the days of the discovery of gold in California"

John Moody, Businessman

"Farmers, merchants, manufacturers, and the traveling public have all had their troubles with the transportation lines, and the difficulties to which these struggles have given rise have produced that problem which is even now apparently far from solution"

John Moody, Businessman

"Consequently, many large railroad systems of heavy capitalization bid fair to run into difficulties on the first serious falling off in general business"

John Moody, Businessman

"The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress"

John Moody, Businessman

"The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes in the control of the property"

John Moody, Businessman

"I suspect that many corporations have begun to understand that they have an important role to play in the lives of their communities, and that allocating funds to support local groups helps them discharge that function and also burnish their image"

David Rockefeller, Businessman

"With the reorganization of 1898 finished, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad entered a new period in its history"

John Moody, Businessman

"As the contest proceeded, public interest increased and the entire country watched to see which company would win the big government subsidies through the mountains"

John Moody, Businessman

"Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities"

Tom Allen, Politician

"The Japanese banks are not having an easy time as they once had"

David Rockefeller, Businessman

"Much corporate giving is charitable in nature rather than philanthropic"

David Rockefeller, Businessman

"I'm in the retail business, not the circus business"

Philip Green, Businessman

"I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work"

Philip Green, Businessman

"The purpose of a company is not to make money. It's to solve a problem"

Steven Bartlett, Entrepreneur

"I think that companies always become complacent, over time. Or most companies, that is"

Tim O'Reilly, Publisher

"I mean, our primary businesses in wholesale pipelines, utilities, retail were all doing extremely well"

Kenneth Lay, Businessman

"Every market is in transition"

Kenneth Lay, Businessman

"We see ourselves as first helping to open up markets to competition"

Kenneth Lay, Businessman

"The problems in California have been that it's been very difficult to site and build new power plants"

Kenneth Lay, Businessman

"In the case of Enron, we balance our positions all the time"

Kenneth Lay, Businessman

"But the most important thing is, Enron did not cause the California crisis"

Kenneth Lay, Businessman

"Producing fuel cells and solar panels requires high tech facilities and produces high paying jobs. The industry is booming in Arizona. The state already has about 100 firms in the solar industry and has grown 20% since 2003"

J. D. Hayworth, Politician

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