Quotes About Business

I thought, 'This is not going to drag me down, this is going to make me a better man.' So I came out of prison a man with a plan, determined to set up a business importing Italian ingredients.

Businesses that make consumer privacy a point of competitive differentiation will enjoy greater customer loyalty.

You see, another reason for nationalization was that private ownership meant fragmentation.

Conservatives by and large believe in the corrective power of the free market above all. If we don't like how private companies are doing business, we should just start our own to compete, right?

In our equities business, 49 of the 50 most important Lehman clients are back doing business with us. The flows are 75 to 80 per cent of what they were prior to the bankruptcy. The issues which damaged Lehman were around commercial mortgages and illiquid private equity assets.

A private jet is not a luxury; it is a necessity.

I get a bit of a kick out of exporting private enterprise and incentives.

I never talk about my private life. When you're in this business it becomes so precious. I don't understand when people open up about themselves to the press.

We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have worked, but it didn't.

You cannot have development in today's world without partnering with the private sector.

Growth means creating the right conditions for the private sector - farmers and firms - to invest and do business.

I built private sector jobs all my life.

I always intended to return to the private sector.

If I could create one job in the private sector by helping to grow a business, that would be one more than Congress has created in the last six months.

You balance the budget by restraining the growth of government and encouraging the growth of the private sector.

The way to create jobs is to encourage private sector job creators.

I spent my whole life in the private sector, 25 years in the private sector. I understand that when government takes more money out of the hands of people, it makes it more difficult for them to buy things. If they can't buy things, the economy doesn't grow. If the economy doesn't grow, we don't put Americans to work.

GE sells more than 96 percent of its products to the private sector, where America's future must be built. But government can help business invest in our shared future.

The private sector doesn't sit around and say - 'Well, since the president said we should do this, we should do it.'

Much of the real computer talent today is concentrated in the private sector.

Jobs are created in the private sector. Not by the president or the government unless they're government jobs.

We need to make investment to get the economy going again, to give the private sector the confidence.

My administration will continue to engage the private sector to increase economic opportunities and look for ways to improve our already top notch business environment.

America's private sector job creators need elected leaders to lead and get out of the way.