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.”

-- Thomas Frank

“I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.”

-- Alan Greenspan

“We have to make America the best place in the world to do business.”

-- Dick Cheney

“When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.”

-- Warren Buffett

“The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.”

-- George Bernard Shaw

“It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.”

-- Dale Dauten

“Politicians also have a love affair with the 'small business exemption.' Too much paperwork? Too heavy a burden? Not enough time? Just exempt small businesses from the rule. It sounds so pro-growth. Instead it's an admission that the costs of a regulation just can't be justified.”

-- John Sununu

“When I jumped off a roof in Cannes in a bee costume, I looked ridiculous. But this is my business I have to humiliate myself.”

-- Jerry Seinfeld

“I know from my own experience and from other people in the business that when you come from a place where nobody knew who you were and then there is this sudden shift to where everybody now knows who you are, there's an adjustment that you have to make.”

-- Kristen Wiig

“I don't even know what words to use to talk about the music industry anymore. But the business has changed a lot - the methods of releasing music.”

-- Anthony Kiedis