Entrepreneurship & Business: Business Quotes

"Low unemployment numbers are clear indicators that Republican tax relief and economic policies are spurring growth and helping businesses hire new workers while providing American families with job security"

J. D. Hayworth, Politician

"Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit"

Paul Getty, Businessman

"Our company is built on people - those who work for us, and those we do business with"

Harvey S. Firestone, Businessman

"Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare"

Larry Elder, Journalist

"Outsourcing and globalization of manufacturing allows companies to reduce costs, benefits consumers with lower cost goods and services, causes economic expansion that reduces unemployment, and increases productivity and job creation"

Larry Elder, Journalist

"Obviously, we're a consumer nation and you have the power to influence these big corporations who are running the world right now through what you chose to, or not to, purchase"

Daryl Hannah, Actress

"There's not a single business model, and there's not a single type of electronic content. There are really a lot of opportunities and a lot of options and we just have to discover all of them"

Tim O'Reilly, Publisher

"Well, rates would go up whether you deregulate or not, and of course, the rates that are going up right now on the electricity side are still within the regulated framework"

Kenneth Lay, Businessman

"Today, there are also buyers and sellers of all these energy commodities, just like there are buyers and sellers of food commodities and many other commodities"

Kenneth Lay, Businessman

"But indeed a market like California is not good for Enron"

Kenneth Lay, Businessman

"The second is that the role of China trade in Japanese economy, important as it is, has often been exaggerated, as proven by our experience of the past 6 years"

Shigeru Yoshida, Politician

"Until the contract is signed, nothing is real"

Glenn Danzig, Musician

"We use competitive markets to arrange for delivery of our food supply"

Kenneth Lay, Businessman

"Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible"

William Feather, Author

"In order to achieve optimal economic growth, Congress must adhere to sane spending guidelines while promoting smart policies devoted to growing businesses and creating jobs"

Michael Steele, Politician

"Seems like it's going to be really hard to make money at it, and, therefore, really hard to get any great games done. Much like Flash games, the audience is huge, but the content isn't likely to be good enough to have people pay for it"

Mike Wilson, Writer

"That foreign trade should be fair rather than free"

Lyn Nofziger

"Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers"

William Feather, Author

"Business owners have made a strong case to me that they need guest workers. But none has suggested that these workers should be placed on a path to citizenship"

John Shadegg, Politician

"And what most people don't understand is the bulk of business in this country is small business"

Alphonso Jackson, Public Servant

"Again two manufacturers may employ the same amount of fixed, and the same amount of circulating capital; but the durability of their fixed capitals may be very unequal"

David Ricardo, Economist

"I've never been good in the financial and business arenas. I handle the creative side of things"

Daryl Hannah, Actress

"Business news is sexy"

Maria Bartiromo, Journalist

"Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business"

Leo Burnett, Businessman

"Road testing the effects of regulation on European business must become second nature to the European Union"

John Hutton, Educator

"It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online"

Esther Dyson, Scientist

"Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping"

Dana Delany, Actress

"We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product"

Adam Osborne, Author

"To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart"

Thomas John Watson, Sr., Businessman

"Oil is a very important component of economic growth"

Maria Bartiromo, Journalist

"Banks properly established and conducted are highly useful to the business of the country, and will doubtless continue to exist in the States so long as they conform to their laws and are found to be safe and beneficial"

Martin Van Buren, President

"More than 50% of significant new regulations that impact on business in the UK now emanate from the EU"

John Hutton, Educator

"Here in the UK, the government has decided to accept the recommendations of the Better Regulation Task Force to measure and make targeted reductions in the administrative costs - the red tape costs - that regulations impose on business"

John Hutton, Educator

"And, in the past, it has been all too easy for legislators to load costs onto business in order to meet broader social goals. And costs for business means costs for consumers!"

John Hutton, Educator

"With more than 67 percent of the Nation's freight moving on highways, economists believe that our ability to compete internationally is tied to the quality of our infrastructure"

Dennis Hastert, Politician

"So we are now still dependent on foreign oil, have a problem with global warming, and are losing jobs rapidly to the Japanese in fuel-efficient vehicles as a result of that very shortsighted progress"

Jay Inslee, Politician

"I've seen disgusting excess in business, and I've seen disgusting excess in Washington. But at the same time, I've certainly learned that Washington matters and that you can't ignore it, especially when you get into telecom"

Esther Dyson, Scientist

"One way we gave small businesses more money to invest was by extending tax provisions on expensing. This allows businesses to immediately write off things like equipment, without being burdened by depreciation requirements"

Dennis Hastert, Politician

"There's almost no way of doing importing honestly, because if you do you're at such a disadvantage competitively. So people spend huge amounts of effort getting around stupid laws and not paying taxes"

Esther Dyson, Scientist

"The Merchants of Carolina, are fair, frank traders"

John Lawson, Explorer

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