Business Quotes
“My approach to cutting spending as president, is to do a ten percent across the board cut of all federal agencies, and then ask each of my new agency heads to find another ten percent by drilling down. That's what you do in business to come up with approximately 20 percent cuts for the first fiscal year budget.”
“The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.”
-- Walter Lippmann
“Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.”
-- Leo Burnett
“Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.”
-- Thomas A. Edison
“Kids are great. That's one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. It's a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names.”
-- Charles Barkley
“Americans chose a free enterprise system designed to provide a quality of opportunity, not compel a quality of results. And that is why this is only place in the world where you can open up a business in the spare bedroom of your home.”
-- Marco Rubio
“The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.”
-- William Butler Yeats
“Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.”
-- Abraham Lincoln
“I think in politics, in Congress, you often do things that are Republican, or you do things because you're a Democrat. Sometimes that's good, obviously, and sometimes that's obviously bad. But in the news business, there's no such thing as Republican or Democratic news. News is news.”
-- J. C. Watts