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Quotes About Business

Less government in business and more business in government.
~ Warren G. Harding
There are simply no public figures today who so challenge the elite business and government establishment and so champion the working class as Jimmy Hoffa did almost daily and with arrogance.
~ Jimmy Hoffa
Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.
~ Milton Friedman
I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park.
~ Billy Graham
A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
While communism is the control of business by government, fascism is the control of government by business.
~ Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
...somebody has to take governments' place, and business seems to me to be a logical entity to do it.
~ David Rockefeller
A leader has to know how the system functions - not just the system of government but the whole social and economic system, including business, the unions, and the universities.
~ Jean Chretien
The government competes in the private sector the way an alligator competes with a duck.
~ Mike Pence
No business is above Government; and Government must be empowered to deal adequately with any business that tries to rise above Government.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
~ Ronald Reagan
There is a massive economic opportunity out there to be taken without waiting for government legislation.
~ Ellen MacArthur
Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
~ Wendell Phillips
Government is not show business.
~ Warren Beatty
The more heavily the government regulates the market, the more competition is impeded.
~ Alex Kozinski
The business of government is to keep the government out of business - that is, unless business needs government aid.
~ Will Rogers
The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
The government doesn't run the economy. The economy is run by the private sector. The job of the president is to ensure we [the state] have policies that allow the private sector to grow and prosper.
~ Marco Rubio
Government does not create jobs. Government does not create jobs.
~ Mitt Romney
Outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or economically as the private sector.
~ Ronald Reagan
There's a simple solution to our traffic problems. We'll have business build the roads, and government build the cars.
~ Will Rogers
If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy.
~ Kin Hubbard
Private enterprise creates; government destroys. That is the great economic lesson of our times and all times.
~ Llewellyn Rockwell
My nightmare scenario is that the government saves Citibank once again, as well as the other banks, and business resumes as usual. Then, the next time the system breaks, it breaks much, much bigger.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb