Top 100 Quotes About Big Business
#1. Even though it seems like it's big business and impersonal, and "they" take care of it, it really isn't. There is no "they." It always comes down to an "I" of somebody, and in many cases, it's a principal.
Jessica Livingston
#2. Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes.
Dave Barry
#3. Big business always serve - directly or indirectly - the masses.
Ludwig Von Mises
#4. Big business learned that if you stopped fighting big government, you could profit from it by killing your smaller competitors.
Thomas E. Woods Jr.
#5. Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.
Steve Martin
#6. Every senator needs to stand up and represent their constituents - not big business, not the ACLU, not activist groups, not political interests, but the American interests, the workers' interests.
Jeff Sessions
#7. I am not being facetious when I say that the real enemies in this country are the Pentagon and its pals in big business.
Bella Abzug
#8. I have found, whether you have a tiny business or a big business, if you don't jump on something right away, it's like a bird flying by-it flies off.
Barbara Corcoran
#9. Most of the masses still believe in magic, you know. Spells. Potions. It's a big business, I am told.
Philip K. Dick
#10. A big business never becomes big by being a narrow society looking after only the interests of its organization and stockholders.
Henry Ford
#11. Talk of democracy has little content when big business rules the life of the country through its control of the means of production, exchange, the press and other means of publicity, propaganda and communication.
John Dewey
#12. Business, especially big business, is now organized like an army. It is, as some would say, a sort of mild militarism without bloodshed; as I say, a militarism without the military virtues.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#13. A true libertarian supports free enterprise, opposes big business; supports local self-government, opposes the nation-state; supports the National Rifle Association, opposes the Pentagon.
Edward Abbey
#14. The fiesta of soccer, a feast for the legs that play and the eyes that watch, is much more than a big business run by overlords from Switzerland. The most popular sport in the world wants to serve the people who embrace it.
Eduardo Galeano
#15. When 'You've Lost that Lovin' Feeling' hit, we were doing a show called 'Shindig!' and the Righteous Brothers suddenly became big business.
Bill Medley
#16. Combination does not produce though mergers and combinations are still the accepted panacea. In Big business there appears to be increasing aridity, bureaucracy, and stultifying sacrifice of initiative and above all fear.
Reginald Fessenden
#17. Remember the guy in the 80s walking around with a boombox on his shoulder? Why'd he do that? Because it told a story about who he was. Expressing yourself is big business.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#18. I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.
Stephen Ambrose
#19. We should change the current economic system dominated by big business groups to a one where small and medium-sized enterprises develop together.
Park Geun-hye
#21. There are so many sci-fi fans and it's such a big business now. So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal. I would be lying if I said that the fact that I had been on a very popular sci-fi show and had some recognition in that world didn't help me get the job on another sci-fi show.
Aaron Ashmore
#22. The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.
Adam McKay
#23. There ought to be more scrupulous honesty in big business men than in any other human relation. For big business requires teamwork on a gigantic scale.
Henry Latham Doherty
#24. Everything gets taken over by big business, I don't care what line you're in.
E.B. White
#25. There's a side to this industry that nurtures divas who can't write. It's a big business.
Tori Amos
#26. Technologies evolve in the strangest ways. Computers were created to calculate ballistics equations, and now we use them to create amusing illusions. Creating amusing illusions is a big business if you play it right.
Howard Rheingold
#27. We trusted our instincts, and stuck to the two tenets of my philosophy: Sell things for more than you pay for them, and save more than you spend. Simple, yes, but that is the philosophy that ultimately led to a really big business.
Sophia Amoruso
#29. The Tea Party grew out of indignation over the Wall Street bailout - an indignation shared by the vast majority of Americans. But the Tea Party ended up directing its ire at government rather than at big business and Wall Street.
Robert Reich
#30. The typical American citizen is the business man. The typical business man is a bad citizen; he is busy. If he is a 'big business man' and very busy, he does not neglect; he is busy with politics, oh, very busy and very businesslike.
Lincoln Steffens
#31. Republicans get a lot of money from big business, but they are not tied to the union dollar. As a result they have been aggressive advocates of school reform, charter schools and vouchers for private schools.
Juan Williams
#32. Big business is basic to the very life of this country; and yet many -perhaps most - Americans have a deep-seated fear and an emotional repugnance to it. Here is monumental contradiction.
David Lilienthal
#33. No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business - doing good for the environment.
Jared Diamond
#34. You get into trouble if you criticize big business. The roof falls in if you criticize Congress. And we're getting increasingly cautious in criticizing the Administration. The pressures are getting worse.
Howard K. Smith
#35. I'm a capitalist, I'm a CEO, I run a big business, I'm an employer.
Sophia Amoruso
#36. The people who think that the power of big business is enormous are mistaken
Ludwig Von Mises
#37. All my life I knew I would have a big business. That's what I wanted from the time I was in second grade; there was never a doubt in my mind.
Paul Orfalea
#38. I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.
Kurt Vonnegut
#39. Republicans always play the same game. They are for big business and money interests...We know from long experience that the people are better served by Democratic public officials, and we are letting the people down when we permit factional fighting to put Republicans in office.
Marc Sandalow
#40. One of biggest lies in politics is the lie that Republicans are the party of big business. Big business does great with big government. Big business is very happy to climb in bed with big government. Republicans are and should be the party of small business and of entrepreneurs.
Ted Cruz
#41. Well, a lot of people within government and big business are nervous of Hip Hop and Hip Hop artists, because they speak their minds. They talk about what they see and what they feel and what they know. They reflect what's around them.
Afrika Bambaataa
#43. He was one of those quite rare adults who communicate with small children fairly well and who love them all impartially
not in a sugary way but in a businesslike fashion that may sometimes entail a hug, in the same way that closing a big business deal may call for a handshake.
Stephen King
#44. The FBI has always supported big business and big government.
Leonard Peltier
#45. The tagline behind "House of Lies" is funny, dirty, business. The show is a comedy satire about how big business operates. Most Americans that work in corporate America should be able to relate to this show.
Larenz Tate
#46. It's one thing for a courier service transport letters and documents from one city to another at a cost that only big business can afford; but it's another thing to take a letter from an Indian boy studying at the University of Ottawa to his mother in Old Crow.
Jean Chretien
#47. Any time you choose not to hide your tattoo, you're limiting your social sphere, because they're not popular in big business.
Helen Fisher
#48. The word love is never mentioned in big business.
Anita Roddick
#49. It is solely bigness in business which makes it possible to supply the masses with all those products the present-day American common man does not want to do without. Luxury goods for the few can be produced in small shops. Luxury goods for the many require big business.
Ludwig Von Mises
#50. As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
John Dewey
#51. Time passed. Art came off the walls and became rituals. Ritual became religion. Religion spawned science. Science led to big business. And big business, if it continues on its present, mindless trajectory, could land those lucky enough to survive its ultimate legacy back into caves again.
Tom Robbins
#52. If small business goes, big business does not have any future except to become the economic arm of a totalitarian state.
Philip D. Reed
#53. I'm not against business. I'm against big business in bed with big government.
Dave Brat
#54. We need to keep government small, but we also need to keep the influence of big business small, and we need to keep the power in the hands of the people, where it belongs. Big government and big business aren't the only two alternatives.
Michael Monroe
#55. I suppose the White House thinks it's doing what Big Business wants, but it will lead to vastly increased taxes, because all these guest workers are to be allowed to bring their children.
Peter Brimelow
#56. Finance went from being a small business, effectively, to being a big business. In part, that's the growth of the world's wealth. That's called savings.
Jamie Dimon
#57. It is not the New Inquisition which is our enemy today; it is hereditary Privilege. It is not Superstition, but Big Business which makes use of Superstition as a wolf makes use of sheep's clothing.
Upton Sinclair
#58. The experiment of multiculturalism was thought up in the minds of tenured intellectuals, put on paper by virtue signaling politicians, and then enjoyed by big business globalists.
Lauren Southern
#59. Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
Ralph Chaplin
#60. It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.
Hal Price
#61. When I was a kid growing up in the '60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, rebellion. It was more about individualism. Today it's just like a big business.
Joey Ramone
#62. Those politicians, professors and union bosses who curse big business are fighting for a lower standard of living.
Ludwig Von Mises
#63. The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct.
Robert Anton Wilson
#64. To some extent, we've always had an admiration for extroversion in our culture. But the extrovert ideal really came to play at the turn of the 20th century when we had the rise of big business.
Susan Cain
#65. People see rock and roll as, as youth culture, and when youth culture becomes monopolised by big business, what are the youth to do? Do you, do you have any idea?
I think we should destroy the bogus capitalist process that is destroying youth culture.
Thurston Moore
#66. The only force more ruthless and cynical than the business of big politics is the politics of big business.
Gregory David Roberts
#67. The problem is that in America is that the nation state has been so weak when it comes to the history of big markets the history of big business in a way so we have a very weak welfare state compared to European nation states.
Cornel West
#68. There isn't one thing the federal government does that anybody in Big Business would emulate, at least not in the profit sector.
Rush Limbaugh
#69. I was once asked if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.
Charles M. Schwab
#70. Making movies has become such a golden ring, and it's all such a big business, that the rewards system has gotten totally out of whack. Suddenly, you're treated in a manner befitting someone who is actually an important person.
Ben Affleck
#71. Employees pay the highest percentage of taxes. Big business and investors pay the least.
Robert Kiyosaki
#72. The idealism of the left is a very selfish idealism. In their war against 'the rich' and big business, they don't care how much collateral damage there is to workers who end up end up unemployed.
Thomas Sowell
#73. When the representatives of "Big Business" think of the people, they do not include themselves.
Woodrow Wilson
#74. Now our biggest environmental problems come from our own actions, our own choices, rather than pollution produced by big business.
Jesse Ventura
#75. Big Business and State Socialism are very much alike, especially Big Business.
G.K. Chesterton
#76. At root, vulgar just means popular on a mass scale. It is the semantic opposite of pretentious or snobby. It is humility with a comb-over. It is Nielsen ratings and Barnum's axiom and the real bottom line. It is big, big business.
David Foster Wallace
#77. With Indian migrants all over the world, money transfer is a big business in India.
Lloyd Dorfman
#78. We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when any one engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.
Theodore Roosevelt
#79. Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.
Ralph Nader
#80. The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
Foster Friess
#81. In politics we face the choice between warmongering, nation-state loving, big-business agents on one hand; and risk-blind, top-down, epistemic arrogant big servants of large employers on the other. But we have a choice.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#82. I think quite a bit of organized religion has become big business. Jesus Christ never sold the word of God. He never gave a sermon and then said, 'For $8.99, you can buy the CD.'
Ving Rhames
#83. Sports has become such a big business that the line between journalism and being a broadcast partner for all intents and purposes has been obliterated.
Dave Zirin
#84. I served in all commissioned ranks from a second Lieutenant to a Major General. And during that time, I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street, and for the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism.
Smedley Butler
#85. A lot of people think big business in America is a bad thing. I think it's a really good thing. Most people in business are ethical, hard-working, good people. And it's a meritocracy.
Steve Jobs
#86. Arranged marriages are big business in the U.K. Second- and third-generation immigrant families, with no extended family structure, limited networks and religious restrictions on acceptable ways to meet future spouses, are turning to external matchmakers for help.
Jemima Khan
#87. TV is a big business. In some ways, it's surpassed films, in terms of the way people invest in these shows and invest in these characters, and give up so much of their time to follow these people's stories.
Jamie Bell
#88. I mean, sports are big, big, big business.
Phil Lesh
#89. What makes small business develop into big business is not spending, but saving and capital accumulation.
Ludwig Von Mises
#90. Entertainment is like any other major industry; it's cold, big business. The business end wants to know one thing: Can you do the job? If you can, you're in, you're made; if you can't, you're out.
Johnny Carson
#91. Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business.
Kevin Mitnick
#92. These are the rules of big business ... Get a monopoly; let society work for you; and remember that the best of all business is politics ...
Frederic C. Howe
#93. I think that fashion has become such a big business and with globalization we are on new territory at this point. We are not just designing for a country we are designing for a world now.
Anna Sui
#94. Big business has no party and never shall have.
Haley Barbour
#95. The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.
Jack Anderson
#96. No one doing big business can avoid some contact with government agencies, regulators, and policy makers.
Mikhail Prokhorov
#97. Tomorrow at the press conference would be dreadful. She would be surrounded by nice young men who spoke Big Business or Computer or Bachelor on the Make, and she would not understand a word they said."
"Short Story: Blued Moon
Connie Willis
#98. 'Big business' was a bad phrase in India. To be accused of being big business was the worst accusation you could make. All that has gone now. The whole mindset has changed.
P. Chidambaram
#99. The only way to make podcasting a real big business would be if you could somehow get the top seven podcasters to team up and make a mega-network.
Jason Calacanis
#100. 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
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