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

“The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.”

-- Charles Dickens

“One thing I resent is the slur that I just support political candidates because of the business.”

-- Rupert Murdoch

“How many deaf people do you know in real life? Unless they live in a cave, or are 14, which seems to be true for most people in this business, what could I possibly tell them that they don't already know?”

-- Marlee Matlin

“A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.”

-- Michael LeBoeuf

“We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.”

-- Ice Cube

“Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.”

-- Lee Iacocca

“The social business marketplace is effectively forcing brands to engage with consumers on the basis of something that is meaningful to them. More often than not, this takes the form of some core value that finds expression in a non-profit cause.”

-- Simon Mainwaring

“Our company is built on people - those who work for us, and those we do business with.”

-- Harvey S. Firestone

“In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning, rather than protesting that, like some poor relation, they don't cost much to be housed.”

-- Terry Eagleton