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Quotes About Business

If our government servants had to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act as they have forced all of American business to do, they would be in jail.
~ Unknown
It's not government that makes business successful. It's not government investments that makes businesses grow and hire people.
~ Mitt Romney
Government should take management lesson from private sector.
~ Newt Gingrich
In fact, a rather striking aspect of business propaganda in the United States is the demonization of government, starting after the Second World War.
~ Noam Chomsky
It's clear that other problems such as [...] the domination of business over government, science, thought, and society, are much bigger than non-free software.
~ Richard Stallman
I do not think a revival of business will be greatly postponed by [Samuel J.] Tilden's election. Business prosperity does not, inmy judgment, depend on government so much as men commonly think.
~ Rutherford B. Hayes
Japan needs to cooperate with China economically. This is understood better by the business community than the government.
~ Sadako Ogata
The government does not and cannot create jobs. Only entrepreneurs do.
~ Sher Valenzuela
You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
~ Abraham Lincoln
We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.
~ Yahoo Serious
Let's not allow the voice of the people to be overwhelmed by the siren song of those who opposed regulation, who demanded that government should stand aside and let finance and business run the show.
~ David Blunkett
Without ambition no conquests are made, and no business created. Ambition is the root of all achievement.
~ James A. Champy
I can tell you how bad our boards are... I don't have to watch Saturday Night Live anymore; I just go to the board meetings.
~ Carl Icahn
Good companies will meet needs; great companies will create markets.
~ Philip Kotler
Great businesses are not built by extraordinary people but by ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
~ Michael Gerber
There are so many great things about this business. Almost everybody is on the same team. It is all for one-friendly competitiveness. No one is out to hurt anyone.
~ Bobby Flay
A great business at a fair price is superior to a fair business at a great price.
~ Charlie Munger
The primary reason in starting a business part-time is not so much to make a product great. The real reason for starting a part-time business is to make you a great businessperson.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
The things that are important to me - being a mother, a businesswoman, an activist - are all things that were borne out of great passion.
~ Elizabeth Taylor
I'm sure there are writers who are great businessmen, but I never met any.
~ Arthur Miller
The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.
~ Charles Dickens
Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment.
~ Ben Horowitz
I've always had standards about writing well. There is art in this business. There is potentially great art.
~ Gay Talese
I could design an $800 shoe line it's easy. You use the best materials and you can make beautiful shoes. It's easier than making great shoes for $90.
~ Steve Madden