American Business Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• We have seen numerous instances in which American businesses have brought in foreign skilled workers after having laid off skilled American workers, simply because they can get the foreign workers more cheaply. It has become a major means of circumventing the costs of paying skilled American workers or the costs of training them.

  Ronald Reagan

  Mean, Training, Immigration

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• American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.

  Barry Goldwater

  Forgotten, Selling, Importance

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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 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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• The American people and American businesses are looking to the federal government to lead our nation on the path to economic recovery. It is time to stop splitting hairs. It is time to act.

  Joseph Crowley

  Recovery, Hair, Government

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

  Erskine Bowles

  Innovation, Debt, Threat

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• 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

  Thinking, Warren Buffet, Uncommon

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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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• 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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• 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

  Education, Community, Marketing

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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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• United States has always been very close to Africa and it's very sad now to see that Africa has a lot more friends - a lot more engagements with the Chinese, with the Indians, with the Brazilians as the United States retreats. Actually, Africa is a wonderful place to do business and American business is missing a big opportunity by really overlooking Africa.

  Mo Ibrahim

  Opportunity, Missing, Chinese

  "Mo Ibrahim: The 'Bill Gates Of Africa'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 25, 2013.

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• The rapid deterioration of education has been recognized as a national problem for the past several years. Consequently, American businesses must meet the immediate challenge of poorly-educated people in today's workforce by strengthening employee training programs.

  Gregory Balestrero

  Past, Years, People

  Public power, Volume 48. American Public Power Association, 1990.

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• We are in the presence of a recruiting drive systematically and deliberately undertaken by American business, by American universities, and to a lesser extent, American government, often initiated by talent scouts specially sent over here to buy British brains and preempt them for service of the U.S.A. ... I look forward earnestly to the day when some reform of the American system of school education enables them to produce their own scientists so that, in an aimiable free trade of talent, there may be adequate interchange between our country and theirs, and not a one-way traffic.

  Lord Hailsham

  Country, School, Science

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• 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

  Life, Business, Learning

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• The other thing that's really important in tax reform is making sure that we don't tax American businesses at much higher tax rates than our foreign competitors tax theirs. It is costing us jobs. It's one of the reasons all these American companies are moving overseas.

  Paul Ryan

  Jobs, Moving, Important

  "Speaker Ryan's "strange bedfellows" partnership with Trump". "The Speaker of the House" with Scott Pelley, www.cbsnews.com. December 4, 2016.

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• And as secretary of state, I fought hard for American businesses to get a fair shot around the world and to stop underhanded trading practices like currency manipulation and the theft of intellectual property.

  Hillary Clinton

  Practice, Intellectual, World

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Imagine how differently American business would function were our faith in the power of goodness to replace our faith in the power of money. Huge industries would no longer make billions of dollars on activities that diminish the well-being and safety of our children, our health, and our environment, on the pretext that it's "just business." To put money before goodness is idolatry, and the laws of the universe ensure that in the end all idols will fall.

  Marianne Williamson

  Children, Fall, Idols

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• Instead of trade policy that is beneficial to American businesses and workers as well as our trade partners, we have a flawed trade policy that hurts all parties.

  Stephen F. Lynch

  Hurt, Party, Flaws

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• 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

  Boys, Often Can, Needs

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• Ten percent of American businesses disappear every year. ... It's far higher than the failure rate of, say, Americans. Ten percent of Americans don't disappear every year. Which leads us to conclude American businesses fail faster than Americans, and therefore American businesses are evolving faster than Americans.

  Tim Harford

  Motivation, Inspiration, Years

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• The American business man cannot consider his work done when he views the income balance in black at the end of an accounting period. It is necessary for him to trace the social incidence of the figures that appear in his statement and prove to the general public that his management has not only been profitable in the accounting sense but salutary in terms of popular benefits.

  Colby Mitchell Chester

  Business, Men, Views

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• 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.

  Long, Achievement, Black History

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• 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

  Business, Principles, Republic

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