Big Business Quotes

• Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Business, Democracy, Corporations

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1978). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• The Internet is the Viagra of big business.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Business, Technology

  "101 Habits of Highly Successful Novelists: Insider Secrets from Top Writers". Book by Andrew McAleer, September 1, 2008.

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• As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.

  John Dewey

  Long, Shadow, Substance

  John Dewey (1985). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1931-1932”, p.163, SIU Press

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• The biggest big business in America is not steel, automobiles, or television. It is the manufacture, refinement and distribution of anxiety.

  Eric Sevareid

  America, Anxiety, Steel

  Eric Sevareid (1964). “This is Eric Sevareid”

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• The FBI has always supported big business and big government.

  Leonard Peltier

  Government, Bigs, Fbi

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• Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.

  Robert Collier

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Robert Collier (2013). “Riches Within Your Reach”, p.188, Simon and Schuster

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• The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance.

  Debbi Fields

  Business, Successful, Entrepreneur

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• Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

  David Rockefeller

  Motivational, Success, Monday

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• You've got to say, "I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it." It's called perseverance.

  Lee Iacocca

  Motivational, Positive, Success

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• Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.

  Tony Hsieh

  Inspirational, Motivational, Business

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• If you can dream it, you can achieve it.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Positive, Dream

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• You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.

  Joseph E. Levine

  Business, Stupid, People

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• If you're going to be thinking anyway, think big!

  Donald Trump

  Inspirational, Success, Business

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• I was once ask if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.

  Charles R. Schwab

  Men, Objectivity, Vision

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• I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle-man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.

  Smedley Butler

  Wall, Marine, Men

  "War Is a Racket". Smedley Butler's speech in the U.S. (1933); later published as a book "War Is a Racket", www.businessinsider.com. 1935.

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• The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Business, Government, Views

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• I suppose the White House thinks it's doing what Big Business wants, but it will lead to vastly increased taxes, because all these guest workers are to be allowed to bring their children.

  Peter Brimelow

  Children, Thinking, White

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• Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Business, Humor

  "Your Guide to Self-Directed". Book by Daniel Cordoba. p. 197, September 19, 2008.

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• We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when any one engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Business, Squares, People

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.59, Cornell University Press

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• Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.

  Steve Martin

  May, Comedy, Bigs

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• Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.

  Ralph Nader

  Sex, Dirty, Reality

  "Talking Dirty". Book by Carole McKenzie (p. 46), January 2, 2014.

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• One of the things that I realize is that if you look at big business, I mean, they - and what they fund and what they do, they don't really - they don't fund the small non-profit community-based organizations that really are out there on the front lines helping people. They fund the big philanthropies. They're safe.

  Rick Santorum

  Mean, Organization, People

  "Rick Santorum, 'It Takes a Family'". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. August 4, 2005.

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• Big business increasingly likes to portray itself as socially concerned, adopting the style of civic action through 'campaigns' of varying degrees of cynicism.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Style, Degrees, Campaigns

  "Civil Engineering". www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2007.

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• Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.

  Wendell Phillips

  Government, Today, Bigs

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