Big Business Quotes - Page 8

• For millennia the two-million acre redwood ecosystem thrived and sheltered myriad species of life. In the last 150 years, 97 percent of the original redwood forests have been destroyed by timber corporations. ... Big business cut-and-run logging operations have instilled a false dichotomy: jobs versus the environment.

  Julia Hill

  Running, Jobs, Cutting

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• For one thing, to predict the advent of big business was considering the conditions of Marx's day an achievement in itself.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Achievement, Advent, Bigs

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.34, Routledge

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• 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

  Remember, Monopoly, Bigs

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• A big business man was telling Henry Ford about a coach driver of super-expertness with his whip. The driver was telling how he could flick a fly off his horse's ear with his whip-and, a fly alighting just then, he promptly did so. Next he spied a grasshopper beside the road, and he flicked it off with equal dexterity. A little further along the road the passenger noticed an insect on a bush, and nudged the driver to get him. Not on your life, replied the master of the whip. That there insect is a hornet sitting on his nest with an organization behind him. I leave him alone.

  B. C. Forbes

  Horse, Business, Men

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• The more big business talks about something, the less of it there is. For example, it 'values' jobs just at the moment when they disappear; it revels in 'autonomy' when in fact you have to fill out forms in triplicate for the slightest trifle and ask the advice of six people to make insignificant decisions; it harps on 'ethics' while believing in absolutely nothing.

  Corinne Maier

  Jobs, Business, Believe

  Corinne Maier (2007). “Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay”, p.9, Vintage

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• [On Richard M. Nixon:] The Republican nominee would be far worse than another Eisenhower - he is Tricky Dicky of the first magnitude. His entire record is one of opportunism. I cannot feel that there is the remotest sincerity in him, and that clearly he would be the tool of the highest bidder, which is always 'big business.

  Marguerite Rawalt

  Would Be, Tools, Records

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• I'm not guilty. You're the one that's guilty. The lawmakers, the politicians, the Colombian drug lords, all you who lobby against making drugs legal. Just like you did with alcohol during Prohibition. You're the one who's guilty. I mean, c'mon, let's kick the ballistics here: ain't no Uzi's made in Harlem. Not one of us in here owns a poppy field. This thing is bigger than Nino Brown. This is big business. This is the American way.

  Wesley Snipes

  Mean, Alcohol, Drug

  "Fictional character: Nino Brown". "New Jack City", 1991.

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• When the representatives of "Big Business" think of the people, they do not include themselves.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Thinking, People, Bigs

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• Baseball, like some other sports, poses as a sacred institution dedicated to the public good, but it is actually a big, selfish business with a ruthlessness that many big businesses would never think of displaying.

  Jackie Robinson

  Sports, Baseball, Selfish

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• As long as there are big corporations, there will be big unions. The economic power of big business will be matched by the economic power of the big unions.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Long, Unions, Corporations

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• 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

  Mother, Boys, Cities

  "Straight From The Heart". Book by Jean Chrétien, 1985.

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• 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

  Party, Government, Corporations

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• 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

  Country, Emotional, Contradiction

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• One would think that the record of already existing regulatory agencies is sufficiently eloquent in showing that it is Big Business that does the regulating rather than vice versa .

  Paul A. Baran

  Thinking, Agency, Vices

  Paul A. Baran (1968). “Political Econ of Growth”, p.14, NYU Press

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• 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

  Wall, Thinking, Creating Value

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• 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

  Teamwork, Honesty, Business

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• Prosperity may be found in small as in big business.

  I. L. Peretz

  May, Prosperity, Bigs

  "Fir Dores Fir Tzavoes" (1901). "Alle Verk," IV. 237,

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• 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

  Musical, Cost, Influence

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• The word love is never mentioned in big business.

  Anita Roddick

  Love Is, Bigs, Words Love

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• My objection to the church isn't that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too - think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder. An it isn't so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires - though a lot of churches are that, too. My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Girl, Teaching, School

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• If small business goes, big business does not have any future except to become the economic arm of a totalitarian state.

  Philip D. Reed

  Doe, Arms, Small Business

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• 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

  Lying, Dirty, America

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• 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

  Jobs, Want, Entertainment

  Source: www.alex-haley.com

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• Now our biggest environmental problems come from our own actions, our own choices, rather than pollution produced by big business.

  Jesse Ventura

  Choices, Environmental, Action

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• I've talked in front of ... like... a lot of big business people about stuff I didn't even know.

  Ryan Lochte

  People, Stuff, Bigs

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