Big Business Quotes - Page 6

• The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.

  Jack Anderson

  Business, Dark, Government

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Business, Government, Self

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.21, RosettaBooks

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• 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

  Acceptance, Sacrifice, Science

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• Through an unwieldy combination of big government, big military, big business, big labor and big cities, we have created an unworkable mega-nation which defies central management and control. Not only is the United States too big, but it has also become too authoritarian and too undemocratic, and its states assume too little responsibility for the solution of their own social, economic, and political problems.

  Thomas Naylor

  Military, Responsibility, Government

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• Big business depends entirely on the patronage of those who buy its products: the biggest enterprises loses its power and its influence when it loses its customers.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Influence, Patronage, Bigs

  Ludwig Von Mises (2006). “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow”, p.4, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Big businesses can help by engaging aspiring entrepreneurs and promoting initiatives which support small businesses from within.

  Tory Burch

  Support, Entrepreneur, Helping

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• 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

  Crush, Running, Government

  "What the Hell is Going On?" by Adam McKay, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2009.

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• The only way to handle big business is to delegate, delegate, delegate.

  Daniel Burnham

  Business, Way, Bigs

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• 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

  Top Down, Hands, Choices

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.90, Random House

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• These are the rules of big business. They have superseded the teachings of our parents and are reducible to a simple maxim: Get a monopoly; let Society work for you; and remember that the best of all business is politics, for a legislative grant, franchise, subsidy or tax exemption is worth more than a Kim-berly or Comstock lode, since it does not require any labor, either mental or physical, for its exploitation.

  Frederic C. Howe

  Teaching, Simple, Parent

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• Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.

  Ralph Chaplin

  Law, Littles, Break

  Ralph Chaplin, Ben Hur Lampman, Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. Dept. of Research and Education (1971). “The Centralia case: three views of the Armistice Day tragedy at Centralia, Washington, Novemeber 11, 1919: The Centralia conspiracy”, Da Capo Pr

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• The best way to support dreams and stretch is to set apart small ideas with big potential, then give people positive role models and the resources to turn small projects into big businesses.

  Jack Welch

  Leadership, Dream, Ideas

  "Jack: Straight from the Gut". Book by Jack Welch, 2001.

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• The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you ask them a real tax question, such as how you can cheat, they're useless. So, for guidance, you want to look to big business. 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

  Money, Business, Real

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• Clearly this business of treating minds, particularly this big business of treating young minds, has not policed itself, and has no incentive to put a stop to the kinds of fraudulent and unethical practices that are going on.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Practice, Mind, Incentives

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• A big business never becomes big by being a narrow society looking after only the interests of its organization and stockholders.

  Henry Ford

  Organization, Bigs, Interest

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• Big businesses aren't the only ones in the economic ecosystem. Nobody should fall behind because of an unfair structure.

  Park Geun-hye

  Fall, Ecosystems, Economic

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• Big business, for all its lobbying, is often put in line by investigative reporting, public scandals and multi-million-dollar judgments in court against those who put products on the market that are dangerous to their buyers.

  Stanley Crouch

  Business, Dollars, Lobbying

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• 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

  Doubt, Mind, Bigs

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• Capping the size of American banks won't eliminate the needs of big businesses; it will force them to turn to foreign banks that won't face the same restrictions.

  Jamie Dimon

  Needs, Faces, Size

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• The world of extreme sports is also one of the big businesses. Kids might think that snowboarding is the ultimate freedom, but this freedom is being marketed to them by commercial sponsors.

  Lucy Walker

  Sports, Kids, Thinking

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• We who preach the gospel must not think of ourselves as public relations agents sent to establish good will between Christ and the world. We must not imagine ourselves commissioned to make Christ acceptable to big business, the press, the world of sports or modern education. We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Sports, Thinking, Agents

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• The Seven Deadly Sins of the Press: - Concentrated Power of the Big Press. - Passing of competition and the coming of monopoly. - Governmental control of the press. - Timidity, especially in the face of group and corporate pressures. - Big Business mentality. - Clannishness among the newspaper publishers that has prevented them from criticizing each other. - Social blindness.

  Max Lerner

  Government, Competition, Groups

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• I mean, sports are big, big, big business.

  Phil Lesh

  Sports, Mean, Bigs

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• The people who think that the power of big business is enormous are mistaken

  Ludwig von Mises

  Business, Thinking, People

  Ludwig Von Mises (2006). “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow”, p.4, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• I'm very hard on the art world just being a big business.

  Duane Michals

  Art, World, Just Being

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