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Quotes About Business

In the business world, lower profits reflect less demand for your product. But in government the opposite is true - demand for our services increases in hard times.
~ Sonny Perdue
The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.
~ Andrew Jackson
Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.
~ Norman Cousins
Job creation requires a business friendly environment with a tax structure that is not punitive and a state government designed for efficient use of fewer tax dollars.
~ Ken Blackwell
Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.
~ Bill Gates
The government itself cannot create jobs. Jobs are created by business people and entrepreneurs.
~ Tom Marino
The government can help, but we need to make this transition now to a recovery led by private investment.
~ Timothy Geithner
I do not believe that the government is in any position to say exactly how every single business and every single activity shall reach those performances.
~ Dixie Lee Ray
The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business.
~ John Sununu
What got us out of the depression was capitalism, and we would have gotten out a lot quicker had the government not intervened.
~ Peter Schiff
In spite of the anticapitalistic policies of all governments and of almost all political parties, the capitalist mode of production
~ Ludwig von Mises
I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.
~ George W. Bush
It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.
~ Herbert Hoover
Constitutional interpretation is not the business of the Court only, but also properly the business of all branches of government.
~ Edwin Meese
His [Donald Trump] name is on everything. He is a celebrity. But he is not a governor. He has never run government. He is a business executive.
~ Marc Thiessen
You can't have a situation in which companies proceed on a permanent basis relying only on cash from the government.
~ Lawrence Summers
Businesses should be focused on business and social responsibility should be government responsibility.
~ Terry Gou
The left controls the media, the institutions of higher learning and the government. They preach against business, disparate merit, decry free enterprise and slander capitalism.
~ James Cook
The State is a term for the legislative and administrative machinery whereby certain business of the people is transacted, and badly so.
~ Emma Goldman
Beginning in 1973 and then acts in '77, '78, 1980, 1994 and then into the 21st century in the international arena, governments have steadily gotten out of the transportation business.
~ Frederick W. Smith
A government of, by and for the people is obligated to conduct the nation's business in a manner that respects dissent.
~ Jim Leach
You don't grow the economy by growing government.
~ Robert Metcalfe
It was while starting my business that I saw my first glimpse of government's impact on business.
~ Kay Granger
When I see our country's stagnation and economic woes, I cannot help but think that we need a creative revolution that is embraced by business and endorsed by government and educators alike.
~ Larry R. Thompson