Big Business Quotes - Page 9

• The sad fact is that today most of the heads of big businesses in America have become so confused or intimidated that, so far from carrying the free market to argument to the enemy, they fail to defend themselves adequately even when attacked.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Confused, America, Enemy

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• Buying and selling securities on the Stock Exchange do not start new industries. Big business never starts anything new. It merely absorbs, consolidates and profits at the expense of others.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Buying, Selling, Bigs

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• Politics is the shadow cast on society by big business.

  John Dewey

  Shadow, Bigs, Casts

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

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• While big-business leaders and firms can be highly productive, servants of consumers in a free market economy, they are also all too often, seekers after subsidies, contracts, privileges, or cartels furnished by big government. Often, business lobbyists and leaders are the sparkplugs for the statist, interventionist system.

  Murray Rothbard

  Government, Leader, Subsidies

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• Youth soccer is big business. If I don't win, it doesn't matter if I'm developing players, my business is going to hell.

  Tony DiCicco

  Soccer, Winning, Player

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• It is imperative to exercise over big business a control and supervision which is unnecessary as regards small business. All business must be conducted under the law, and all business men, big or little, must act justly. But a wicked big interest is necessarily more dangerous to the community than a wicked little interest. 'Big business' in the past has been responsible for much of the special privilege which must be unsparingly cut out of our national life.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Cutting, Exercise, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (1913). “Progressive Principles: Selections from Addresses Made During the Presidential Campaign of 1912”

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• We need to keep government small, but we also need to keep the influence of big business small, and we need to keep the power in the hands of the people, where it belongs. Big government and big business aren't the only two alternatives.

  Michael Monroe

  Government, Hands, Two

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• Today it is difficult to find leaders who are independent of the forces that have brought us our problems: The Congress, the bureaucracy, the lobbyists, big business, and big labor.

  Ronald Reagan

  Wisdom, Independent, Leader

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• Maybe we should be directing our anger elsewhere - like toward Wall Street. Why is it we never think of Big Business when we think of welfare recipients? Companies take more of our tax dollars, and in much more questionable ways, than do those who are trying to heat their apartments with a kerosene stove.

  Michael Moore

  Wall, Business, Thinking

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• The only winner today is big business.

  Stonewall Jackson

  Historical, Today, Winner

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• We wish to control big business so as to secure among other things good wages for the wage-workers and reasonable prices for the consumers. Wherever in any business the prosperity of the business man is obtained by lowering the wages of his workmen and charging an excessive price to the consumers we wish to interfere and stop such practices. We will not submit to that kind of prosperity any more than we will submit to prosperity obtained by swindling investors or getting unfair advantages over business rivals.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Practice, Wish

  Address by Theodore Roosevelt Before The Convention Of The National Progressive Party in Chicago, www.ssa.gov. August 1912.

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• Our party [Republicans] has been focused on big business too long. I came through small business. I understand how hard it is to start a small business. That's why everything I'll do is designed to help small businesses grow and add jobs. I want to keep their taxes down on small business. I want regulators to see their job as encouraging small enterprise, not crushing it.

  Mitt Romney

  Crush, Jobs, Party

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• What makes small business develop into big business is not spending, but saving and capital accumulation.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Saving, Small Business, Bigs

  Ludwig Von Mises, Murray Newton Rothbard (1980). “Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses”, Libertarian Press, Incorporated

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• There is no alternative. A Democrat is a Republican is a big businessman, and we're all consumers instead of citizens. It just manifests in the culture, in the music, in the art. I feel a little panicky about it.

  Ani DiFranco

  Art, Culture, Alternatives

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. March 13, 2002.

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• The fiesta of soccer, a feast for the legs that play and the eyes that watch, is much more than a big business run by overlords from Switzerland. The most popular sport in the world wants to serve the people who embrace it.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Soccer, Sports, Running

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• The consumers suffer when the laws of the country prevent the most efficient entrepreneurs from expanding the sphere of their activities. What made some enterprises develop into "big business" was precisely their success in filling best the demand of the masses.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Country, Law, Entrepreneur

  Ludwig Von Mises (1947). “Planned Chaos”, p.6, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• I think that fashion has become such a big business and with globalization we are on new territory at this point. We are not just designing for a country we are designing for a world now.

  Anna Sui

  Country, Fashion, Thinking

  "Anna Sui, Founder, Anna Sui Corp". Interview with Andrew Stevens, www.cnn.com. October 4, 2006.

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• Emotion. Passion. Ideas. Simplicity. These are the big things that big business needs from its creative agencies. No one else is going to provide these essential elements for business.

  Kevin Roberts

  Business, Passion, Agency

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• Those politicians, professors and union bosses who curse big business are fighting for a lower standard of living.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Fighting, Boss, Unions

  Ludwig von Mises (1985). “Theory and History”, p.147, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Intellectual, Curiosity, Thrill

  "Kevin Mitnick, Former Fugitive Hacker, Laments How The Game Has Changed". Interview with Gerry Smith, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2011.

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• When I was a kid growing up in the '60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, rebellion. It was more about individualism. Today it's just like a big business.

  Joey Ramone

  Growing Up, Kids, Frustration

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• Talk of democracy has little content when big business rules the life of the country through its control of the means of production, exchange, the press and other means of publicity, propaganda and communication.

  John Dewey

  Country, Communication, Mean

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