Business Quotes
“You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it for free.' When's the last time you ever heard a business person say, 'If I couldn't get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I'd do it for free'?”
“If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.”
-- Thurgood Marshall
“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.”
-- Herman Cain
“A lot of people say I'd miss show business if I quit. I'd miss some of it. Now it's the only life I know.”
-- Loretta Lynn
“Sometimes I think our problems are made worse by the kind of business we're in. Playing these road shows is a weird experience.”
-- Loretta Lynn
“Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required.”
-- James Buchan
“I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts. I poured my heart and soul into a small business. And when I saw how out-of-touch Washington had become with the core values of this great nation, I put my name forward and ran for office.”
-- John Boehner
“A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.”
-- Norman Ralph Augustine