Business Quotes
“The great fear that hung over the business community in the 1970s was death by regulation, and the great goal of the conservative movement, as it rose to triumph in the 1980s, was to remove that threat - to keep OSHA, the EPA, and the FTC from choking off entrepreneurship with their infernal meddling in the marketplace.”
“If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.”
-- Robert H. Schuller
“In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first the cash will come later.”
-- Harold S. Geneen
“Duty is the great business of a sea officer all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.”
-- Horatio Nelson
“I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers.”
-- Michael Bloomberg
“Do business managers have a commitment to anything more than the success of their company and to making money? It would be hard to say that they do. Indeed, many business leaders deny that there is any conflict between self-interest and the interests of all.”
-- Peter Singer
“But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.”
-- Erykah Badu