American Business Quotes

• It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

  Richard J. Connors, Warren Buffett (2010). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.5, John Wiley & Sons

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  There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

  Colin Powell

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

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  I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "I Can't Accept Not Trying : Michael Jordan on the Pursuit of Excellence". Book by Michael Jordan (p. 129), 1994.

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  Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

  Henry Ford

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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

  Eric Bolling

  Order, Certainty, Executives

  "Critics pan Obama's threat to bypass Congress". "The Five" with Kimberly Guilfoyle, Bob Beckel, Eric Bolling, Dana Perino, and Greg Gutfeld, www.foxnews.com. January 16, 2014.

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• Then by the springtime, you'll see us moving an effort to cut taxes for working families, small businesses and family farms to reform our business taxes in this country so that American businesses can compete more effectively with businesses around the world.

  Mike Pence

  Country, Moving, Cutting

  Source: www.dailyjournal.net

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• But the fact is, Mr. Chairman, for all the challenges the Postal Service of the 21st century faces, it still retains its traditional place as a key cog in how American businesses conduct their affairs and how Americans all across this land communicate.

  John M. McHugh

  Keys, Land, Challenges

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• American business would be run better today if there was more alignment between CEOs' interest and the company. For example, would the financial crisis of 2008 have occurred if the CEO of Lehman and Morgan Stanley and Goldman and Citibank had to take a very small percentage of every mortgage-backed security... or every loan they made?

  Aubrey McClendon

  Running, Example, Would Be

  "Chesapeake Energy: Everything You Need To Know About The ‘World’s Biggest Fracker’". stateimpact.npr.org. May 29, 2012.

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• 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

  Insecure, Agency, Today

  Ilka Chase (1942). “Past Imperfect”

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• 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

  America, Today, Hey

  "The Third Bush-Kerry Presidential Debate". www.debates.org. October 13, 2004.

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• Last year, Congress passed a law that directs the Federal Reserve to set limits on debit card swipe fees that are reasonable and proportional to the cost of processing those transactions. Like most Americans, I had no idea that swipe fees charged to American businesses are the highest in the world.

  Peter Welch

  Law, Ideas, Years

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• Trade can really be good for American workers and American businesses.

  Richard Neal

  Be Good, Trade, Workers

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

  Fran Tarkenton

  Greatness, America, Free Market

  FaceBook post by Fran Tarkenton from Jun 19, 2013

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• 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

  Funny, Business, Humor

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• 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

  Business, Race, People

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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• 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

  Strong, Hurt, Rejection

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• 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

  Responsibility, Europe, Social

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• American businesses and upper incomes pay a larger portion of the federal taxes of our national taxes than any country in the world.

  Jim DeMint

  Country, Pay, Income

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• 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

  Business, Thinking, Games

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• Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. They have retained bubbling-over boyishness. They have relished wit, they have indulged in humor. They have not allowed ‘dignity’ to depress them into moroseness. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism, and optimism is the stuff of which American business success is fashioned. Resist growing up!

  B. C. Forbes

  Success, Depressing, Brother

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• 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

  Community, Understanding, Mind

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• 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

  Honesty, Business, Men

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• 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

  Success, Business, Reading

  "This Is Warren Buffett's Best Investment Advice" by Chris Winfield, time.com. July 23, 2015.

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• It doesn’t matter who you marry, as long as he thinks like you and is a gentleman and a Southerner and prideful. For a woman, love comes after marriage.” “Oh, Pa, that’s such an Old Country notion!” “And a good notion it is! All this American business of running around marrying for love, like servants, like Yankees! The best marriages are when the parents choose for the girl. For how can a silly piece like yourself tell a good man from a scoundrel?

  Margaret Mitchell

  Girl, Running, Country

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.22, Hamilton Books

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