Business Quotes
“Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.”
“Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.”
-- Ronald Reagan
“Democrats think the country works better with a strong middle class, real opportunities for poor people to work their way into it and a relentless focus on the future, with business and government working together to promote growth and broadly shared prosperity. We think 'we're all in this together' is a better philosophy than 'you're on your own.'”
-- William J. Clinton
“Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.”
-- Isak Dinesen
“Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.”
-- Washington Irving
“Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.”
-- Charles Dickens
“The rest of the world cares about how we conduct our affairs because they then take that lead. We're the only leader in the world today. Some are wishing us well, others think that we're down and are not going to get back up again, but they are all watching with great interest to see how we conduct our business over the next couple of years.”
-- Jon Huntsman, Jr.
“You know who a complicated tax code kills? The guy or gal trying to start a business out of the spare bedroom of their home. So we've got to simplify our tax code.”
-- Marco Rubio