American Business Quotes - Page 2

• American businesses are struggling to pay outrageous, exploitive insurance bills for their employees, hampering our ability to compete globally.

  Andrew Weil

  Struggle, Pay, Bills

  "The Question No One Asks About Healthcare" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 25, 2009.

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• Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, it's around the world.

  Karl Rove

  Competition, Next, World

  Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. November 7, 2004.

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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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• I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business.

  Warren Buffett

  Life, Thinking, Generosity

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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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• 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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• 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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• The problem with all these tired excuses for inaction is that it suggests a fundamental lack of faith in American business and American ingenuity.

  Barack Obama

  Tired, Fundamentals, Global Warming

  "Coal-state Dems chisel away at Obama climate plan". www.foxnews.com. June 29, 2013.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• While the importance of a strong brand is widely understood, nothing is as misunderstood in American business as the question of how to use it.

  David F. D'Alessandro

  Strong, Misunderstood, Use

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• The spring of 1930 marks the end of a period of grave concern...American business is steadily coming back to a normal level of prosperity.

  Julian Barnes

  Depression, Spring, Levels

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• For society, the Internet is wonderful, but for capitalists, it will be a net negative. It will increase efficiency, but lots of things increase efficiency without increasing profits. It is way more likely to make American businesses less profitable than more profitable. This is perfectly obvious, but very little understood.

  Charlie Munger

  Negative, Littles, Way

  Charlie Munger's comments on the impact of technology and the Internet at the 2000 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, www.fool.com. May 1, 2000.

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• Every company in America should be on its knees thanking Jesus for being born. Without Christmas, most American businesses would be far less profitable. More than enough reason for business to be screaming 'Merry Christmas.'

  Bill O'Reilly

  Jesus, Merry Christmas, America

  "Merry Christmas, Maybe". www.foxnews.com. November 29, 2005.

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• The lack of education and lack of skills don't hurt the unemployed, they hurt America and American business, making us less competitive in the global market.

  Robert Stempel

  Education, Hurt, Business

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• Our global corporate investment bank competes with Goldman Sachs, Citibank, and a bunch of other banks that are in those businesses. We may have slightly different products or services, but so what? That's always been true in American business.

  Jamie Dimon

  Different, May, Investment

  "Jamie Dimon on Finance: 'Who Owns the Future?'". Interview with John Micklethwait, www.bloomberg.com. March 1, 2016.

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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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