American Business Quotes

#1. Today, if you're an American business, you actually get a benefit for going overseas. You get to defer your taxes. So if you're looking at a competitive world, you say to yourself, "Hey, I do better overseas than I do here in America."

John F. Kerry

#2. The problem with all these tired excuses for inaction is that it suggests a fundamental lack of faith in American business and American ingenuity.

Barack Obama

#3. We both (Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett) insist on a lot of time being available almost every day to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. We read and think.

Charlie Munger

#4. Every time you have a new tax, or every time you have to pay really an inordinate amount for a regulation, it's really stifling this country and really stifling American business.

John Raese

#5. American business, while it does not frown on helping the human race, frowns on people who start right in helping the human race without first proving that they can sell things to it.

Margaret Halsey

#6. There is a natural partnership between State and Commerce, and the American business community to work together to educate the United States about marketing overseas.

Lawrence Eagleburger

#7. American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.

Barry Goldwater

#8. American business men must learn human nature to the point of accepting as necessary the Rabble Rouser of the Right ... To get fast action somebody must stir millions to genuine anger over conditions which are adversely affecting their lives.

Walter B. Pitkin

#9. Pulling the plug on the BlackBerry could cost corporate America millions of dollars. The BlackBerry is more than e-mail but a handheld office, and if you shut down the BlackBerry, you shut off the data that powers American business.

Al Smith

#10. We are seeing some challenges and some changes in American business, American enterprise, but the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award is a reminder of things that must never change: the passion for excellence, the drive to innovate, the hard work that goes with any successful enterprise.

George W. Bush

#11. The advertising agency, as it stands today, is a peculiar manifestation of American business life of the twentieth century - glossy, brash, and insecure.

Ilka Chase

#12. While the importance of a strong brand is widely understood, nothing is as misunderstood in American business as the question of how to use it.

David F. D'Alessandro

#13. The spring of 1930 marks the end of a period of grave concern ... American business is steadily coming back to a normal level of prosperity.

Julian Barnes

#14. I have to come to terms with the paternalism of American business. Companies are expected to take on so many social responsibilities which are the province of the state in Europe.

Nick Denton

#15. One reason the United States is one of three countries in the world that do not have any form of paid maternity leave is that many American business leaders, like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, oppose any family-friendly policies. They scare people into thinking maternity leave will be a job killer.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#16. American business long ago gave up on demanding that prospective employees be honest and hardworking. It has even stopped hoping for employees who are educated enough that they can tell the difference between the men's room and the women's room without having little pictures on the doors.

Dave Barry

#17. The question really is how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult task than understanding a statistical matrix.

Lawrence Eagleburger

#18. The greatness of America is capitalism, free market capitalism. The exceptionalism of American business.

Fran Tarkenton

#19. Perhaps the single most effective antagonist of American business is Ralph Nader, who - thanks largely to the media - has become a legend in his own time and an idol of millions of Americans.

Lewis F. Powell Jr.

#20. No other facet of American business is more corrupt, more intoxicated with illegality, more weakly regulated, and has a greater impact on poor and working people than debt collectors; not credit card companies or subprime mortgages, not even payday lenders.

Gary Weiss

#21. If our government servants had to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act as they have forced all of American business to do, they would be in jail.

Patrick Henry

#22. Our global corporate investment bank competes with Goldman Sachs, Citibank, and a bunch of other banks that are in those businesses. We may have slightly different products or services, but so what? That's always been true in American business.

Jamie Dimon

#23. Advertising has always been the Peck's Bad Boy of American business urging us to buy things we probably don't need and often can't afford.

Andrew Hacker

#24. With the strong bipartisan rejection of the Dorgan amendment today, the Senate cast a vote in favor of the U.S. working to knock down unfair trade barriers that hurt American business and farmers

Rob Portman

#25. Even those who don't believe in climate change believe we should develop renewable energy. Americans get it: it's time. This is not controversial. It's actually right in the wheelhouse of American business.

Marshall Herskovitz

#26. I do believe in the energy and the productivity of the American business world.

Clint Eastwood

#27. The lack of education and lack of skills don't hurt the unemployed, they hurt America and American business, making us less competitive in the global market.

Robert Stempel

#28. We have reached in this country an amazing degree of general prosperity, with American business on the whole no longer facing an uphill climb.

Charles M. Schwab

#29. American business can out-think, out-work, out-perform any nation in the world. But we can't beat the competition if we don't get in the ball game.

George H. W. Bush

#30. And, of course, you have the commercials where savvy businesspeople get ahead by using their MacIntosh computers to create the ultimate American business product: a really sharp-looking report.

Dave Barry

#31. Actually, if American business is going to succeed, we are going to need hundreds, or even thousands, of miracles.

Peter Thiel

#32. To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'

Edmund Phelps

#33. No library of American business achievement is complete without the story of Arthur G. Gaston ... Black Titan is a long overdue contribution to the recording of not just black history, but American history.

Earl G. Graves, Sr.

#34. American business needs a lifting purpose greater than the struggle of materialism.

Herbert Hoover

#35. Introducing non-copy-protected software into this kind of an environment may be the single most boneheaded thing that American business has ever done in its long history of stepping on rakes in Asia.

Neal Stephenson

#36. Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, it's around the world.

Karl Rove

#37. Whatever we want to think about American business - work hard, tell the truth, have morality - it's a myth. There's a lot of graft.

Mark Ruffalo

#38. The American Republic and American business are Siamese twins; they came out of the same womb at the same time; they are born in the same principles and when American business dies, the American Republic will die, and when the American Republic dies, American business will die.

Josiah Bailey

#39. I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.

Warren Buffett

#40. We both insist on a lot of time being available almost every day to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. We read and think. So Warren and I do more reading and thinking and less doing than most people in business.

Charles T. Munger

#41. The US Debt is the single biggest threat I see to innovation in American business.

Erskine Bowles

#42. As president, I would promote a Fair and Flat Tax plan, known as the 'EZ Tax.' My tax plan would be the largest tax cut in American history, reforming individual, business, and worker taxes.

Rand Paul

#43. Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Edward Dahlberg

#44. The corporate system dictates what gets made, and the movies are so bad because of the economic structure of Hollywood. The big business takeover of Hollywood is at fault rather than American storytellers - it's what keeps textured movies from getting made.

James Gray

#45. The preppy lifestyle has gone global. We feel that our business has grown so well because preppy travels so well. It's all-American classic.

Tommy Hilfiger

#46. Every time you're exposed to advertising in America you're reminded that this country's most profitable business is still the manufacture, packaging, distribution, and marketing of bullshit. High-quality, grade-A, prime-cut, pure American bullshit.

George Carlin

#47. That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story.

Mitt Romney

#48. I think a lot of people see, obviously, the business side of my father. But, I mean, he's just a great guy. We enjoyed the holidays so much. To be able to spend time with him when he's not necessarily working or not doing the political thing, I mean, he's much more of a blue collar American.

Donald Trump Jr.

#49. I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.

Bill Rancic

#50. I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.

Ron Paul

#51. It is very difficult to reconcile the American ideal of a sovereign people capable of owning and managing their own government with an inability to own and manage their own business.

Calvin Coolidge

#52. It is the members of this business elite ... that pose the greatest danger to our American way of life. They are the ones who've bought and paid for members of both political parties ...

Lou Dobbs

#53. Some American delusions: 1) That there is no class-consciousness in the country. 2) That American coffee is good. 3) That Americans are business-like. 4) That Americans are highly-sexed and that redheads are more highly sexed than others.

W. Somerset Maugham

#54. I don't care where I work. Films are an international business - not an American institution.

Lee Van Cleef

#55. Small business in America is what fuels the American economy. We need more small business to assist us in creating a great nation and in creating more jobs. It's this frontier that is endless in terms of opportunity and potential.

Debbi Fields

#56. Oh, I'm all about small business. I think what we've learned from big business and big Wall Street is that unchecked greed and the creation of false value gets us all in trouble. If we look at the American economy, who's really creating value? It's the small businesses.

Robert Herjavec

#57. Our workers, our American people who are already struggling, are going to continue to struggle until we can get somebody who can bring some business sense to Washington D.C., and I think that is the one thing I bring.

Bobby Schilling

#58. I'm a friend in the context that we helped fight a battle together for survival of the American Football League. But I don't consider myself close to Al in recent years. You just don't continually sue your business partners like he has.

Lamar Hunt

#59. I believe the American dream is still alive and that education and entrepreneurship together are its key enablers. Through the years I have observed the power of this combination when the two forces work in tandem. Together they lead to personal success, business success, and societal success.

Ralph De La Vega

#60. Thanks for the American dream, to vulgarize and falsify until the bare lies shine through. Thanks for a country where nobody's allowed to mind their own business.

William S. Burroughs

#61. My goal with our American Made program is to inspire people of all ages to become 'doers,' whether it's them learning how to make an easy weekday dinner or starting their own business.

Martha Stewart

#62. If you're in the penaut business you learn to think small.

Eugene McCarthy

#63. Every company in America should be on its knees thanking Jesus for being born. Without Christmas, most American businesses would be far less profitable. More than enough reason for business to be screaming 'Merry Christmas.'

Bill O'Reilly

#64. Many American TV actors employ agents, managers, business managers, publicists and stylists, and are now adding digital media manager to the list. Their job is to reach out to the fans, managing websites, Twitter feeds, Facebook and Wikipedia.

Gina Bellman

#65. I think the whole business of people emigrating was that no one ever told them, although everyone knew, especially if it was to the United States, that it was forever, and the party before you left was called an 'American wake,' in the sense that they knew you wouldn't come back.

Colm Toibin

#66. The time has come to knock off this religion business in American politics. There's no end to the mischief that can occur. It is like putting nitroglycerine in a Waring blender.

Lowell P. Weicker Jr.

#67. Business must be a force for good in the world.

David Cooperrider

#68. Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes, freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience.

Mitt Romney

#69. I don't trust this [american] government to be regulating corporations. I trust big business to be regulated [by itself] and to be a party to a decent solution.

Ezra Klein

#70. Unlike in Europe, where serving is often a career rather than a backup plan, American table-waiting remains a bootstrap business, and some of the biggest skeptics of waiter training courses and schools are seasoned servers themselves.

David Sax

#71. For African-American people, I am in the business of inventing a reality that gives a different perspective - on history, on crime, on art, on love.

John Edgar Wideman

#72. In 2009, South Carolina was blessed to welcome a great American company that chose to stay in our country to continue to do business. That company was Boeing.

Nikki Haley

#73. The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business.

John Sununu

#74. Expansion and modernization of the nation's productive plant is essential to accelerate economic growth and to improve the international competitive position of American industry An early stimulus to business investment will promote recovery and increase employment.

John F. Kennedy

#75. At American Airlines, we have built a business around the love of travel that has lasted three quarters of a century. And I'm pretty sure we're just getting started.

Gerard Arpey

#76. It is such a disappointment in American political reaction and actions. When some of our politicians are flying around the country in private airplanes all the time, using public services as their mode of private transportation, and then criticizing us who are in business.

Arnold Palmer

#77. This book is dedicated to every woman who has ever felt self-conscious about her size. Outer beauty comes in all sizes, shapes, heights, ages, and colors. And inner beauty will always shine through, no matter what the packaging.

Raynetta Manees

#78. I tell you what Hispanics in Virginia tell me they want. They want access to the American dream. That's why they come here to Virginia and to America, so they want more opportunities to start small business, better schools.

Bob McDonnell

#79. American politicians are responsive almost solely to the interests and desires of their rich constituents and interest groups that primarily represent big business.

Alex Pareene

#80. Every four minutes, another American home or business goes solar.

Barack Obama

#81. I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.

Saul Bellow

#82. A writer in early 1930, boosting the beauty business, started off a magazine article with the sentence: The average American woman has sixteen square feet of skin.

Howard Zinn

#83. The thing that happened with the music business, there are no stores anymore where you can buy music. It's all an online business now, and that's, you know - the bookstore culture is a very vibrant part of the American experience that we're very reluctant to see go away.

Jonathan Galassi

#84. American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a business may be the worst of them, for it threatens to destroy public education. Who will Stand up to the tycoons and politicians and tell them so?

Diane Ravitch

#85. Within he felt that faint stirring of derision for the whole business of life which is the salt of the American mentality. Outwardly they are sentimental and enthusiastic and inwardly they are profoundly cynical.

H.G.Wells

#86. The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#87. We in America count on the profit motive to get people to do the right thing. That's our basic American notion when it comes to business.

Chris Matthews

#88. My father had the main barber- and beauty-supply business in the African-American community in Buffalo.

Helene D. Gayle

#89. After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics; as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through.

Dee Dee Myers

#90. American businesses are looking for are certainty and executive orders don't really get them that.

Eric Bolling

#91. Men will look back in amusement at the pretence that once caused people to refer to General Dynamics and North American Aviation and AT&T as private business.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#92. Each segment of the worm is directly reproduced as a whole worm, just as each cell of the American CEO can produce a new CEO.

Jean Baudrillard

#93. I grew up in a family business ... that really has provided the core of my belief in American small business, and in America's ability to grow and operate important businesses that can compete and be successful.

Karen Mills

#94. All these things were part of the business of dreams. He had learned not to laugh at the advertisements offering to teach writing, cartooning, engineering, to add inches to the biceps and to develop the bust

Nathanael West

#95. Your uniqueness is your greatest strength, not how well you emulate others.

Simon S. Tam

#96. You don't have to be African American to really enjoy 'Frisky Business'. But as far as being black, a lot of people in New York have been stopped and frisked, so that hits home for them.

Jessica Williams

#97. If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help ... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.

Barack Obama

#98. The American influence is not so aggressive anymore. The American big business influence in Latin America is not as strong, so people can vote and they can have a different life than before. They can have more liberal, more interesting, and more democratic governments.

Costa-Gavras

#99. Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#100. More material progress has been made during the past one hundred and fifty years under the American system of business enterprise than during all the preceding centuries in world history. This record of achievement is a challenge to those who would radically change that system.

Karl Taylor Compton