Big Business Quotes - Page 7

• Sports has become such a big business that the line between journalism and being a broadcast partner for all intents and purposes has been obliterated.

  Dave Zirin

  Sports, Purpose, Lines

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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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• Higher education isn't just a personal investment. It's a public good that pays off in a more competitive workforce and better-informed and engaged citizens. Every year, we spend nearly $100 billion on corporate welfare, and more than $500 billion on defense spending. Surely ensuring the next generation can compete in the global economy is at least as important as subsidies for big business and military adventures around the globe. In fact, I think we can and must go further - not just making public higher education tuition-free, but reinventing education in America as we know it.

  Robert Reich

  Education, Military, Adventure

  "Ten Ideas to Save the Economy #5: How to Reinvent Education" by Robert Reich, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2015.

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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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• I love to bring humour into my work. Because comedy is not a huge part of the art world. And big-business film takes itself very seriously.

  James Franco

  Art, World, Comedy

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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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• 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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• [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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• 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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• War is big business. It's a lot of money going to and fro, and unfortunately a lot of angst, and a lot of fear, and a lot of doubt. And eventually a lot of wonderful people, like soldiers, like men and women that are out there trying to do the best they can, they come back being wounded on many levels.

  Jon Anderson

  War, Men, People

  "Interview with former Yes front man Jon Anderson (Part One)". examiner.com, January 27, 2011.

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• Government or politics in America today is big business. Everybody makes money involving themselves in one way or the other, whether it's pollsters, whether they are policy wonks, whether they are pundits, whether they are those who believe that they must call it as they see it and then to be fair about it.

  Douglas Wilder

  Believe, Government, America

  "Douglas Wilder On Race, Politics And America". "This American Moment" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. October 15, 2008.

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• We believe that there is one economic lesson which our twentieth century experience has demonstrated conclusively-that America can no more survive and grow without big business than it can survive and grow without small business.... the two are interdependent. You cannot strengthen one by weakening the other, and you cannot add to the stature of a dwarf by cutting off the legs of a giant.

  Benjamin Franklin Fairless

  Business, Believe, Cutting

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• The real hope of the world lies in putting as painstaking thought into the business of mating as we do into other big businesses.

  Margaret Sanger

  Real, Lying, World

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• Literary men are being employed to praise a big business man personally, as men used to praise a king. They not only find political reasons for the commercial schemes that they have done for some time past they also find moral defences for the commercial schemers... I do resent the whole age of patronage being revived under such absurd patrons; and all poets becoming court poets, under kings that have taken no oath.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Kings, Taken, Past

  "Utopia of Usurers". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, pp. 15-17, 1917.

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The American influence is not so aggressive anymore. The American big business influence in Latin America is not as strong, so people can vote and they can have a different life than before. They can have more liberal, more interesting, and more democratic governments.

  Costa-Gavras

  Strong, Latin, Government

  Source: progressive.org

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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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