Business Quotes

“There are people in the public sector with a range of experiences that have no equivalent in business, but are essential to governing, like keeping a kid in school or helping someone get and hold a job. The value of those skills can't easily be measured against a bottom line.”

-- Dee Dee Myers

“Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.”

-- Michel de Montaigne

“When you raise taxes on small business, from 35% to 40%, you will kill jobs.”

-- Mitt Romney

“It's a libel to say that I use my newspapers to support my other business interests. The fact is, I haven't got any other business interests.”

-- Rupert Murdoch

“Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.”

-- Twyla Tharp

“Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.”

-- Robert Louis Stevenson

“Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.”

-- John Kenneth Galbraith

“I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.”

-- Mark Zuckerberg

“A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed my nose in the retail business.”

-- Lee Iacocca

“I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.”

-- Jack Kemp