Private Sector Quotes

• The private sector is doing fine.

  Barack Obama

  Fine

  "Obama: Private Sector is “Doing Fine” by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. June 8, 2012.

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• The 'private sector' of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and the 'public sector' is, in fact, the coercive sector.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Political, Liberty, Libertarian

  Henry Hazlitt (1971). “Man Vs. the Welfare State”, p.121, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• You cannot have development in today's world without partnering with the private sector.

  Hillary Clinton

  Development, World, Today

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• We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have worked, but it didn't.

  Tim Scott

  Jobs, Government, Needs

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• I believe we're past the point where the government or the private sector can solve all problems, it's all about partnerships.

  David L. Cohen

  Believe, Past, Government

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Public servants say, always with the best of intentions, 'What greater service we could render if only we had a little more money and a little more power.' But the truth is that outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Doe, Littles

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.4, Humanix Books

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• The private sector is creating a miracle a day, even as the stuff that government attempts is failing left and right.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Government, Creating, Miracle

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• The economic welfare of all our people must ultimately stem not from government programs, but from the wealth created by a vigorous private sector.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, People, Wealth

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1984). “Ronald Reagan”

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• What you earn depends on what you learn.

  William J. Clinton

  Fortune Cookie, Internet Technology, Information Technology

  "The Political Interest: Job Training Has To Be Reworked" by Michael Kramer, www.cnn.com.

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• I believe that "government", as we know it today, should pull out of most things except for law enforcement and justice, national defense and foreign policy, and let the private sector, a "Grameenized private sector", a social-consciousness-driven private sector, take over their other functions.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Believe, Government, Law

  Muhammad Yunus (2001). “Banker to the Poor: The Autobiography of Muhammad Yunus, Founder of the Grameen Bank”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Government has a habit of blaming the private sector for its own failings while taking credit for advances we in fact owe to the private sector.

  Thomas Woods

  Government, Credit, Facts

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• The governments are seen to be less effective than they used to be. The private sector is perceived as being so much more efficient, and so globalization implies a transfer of power to the private sector.

  Mary Robinson

  Government, Globalization, Used

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• We ought to start running the government like a private-sector business. I have that ability as CEO of our companies. I have line item vetoes, and if I didn't, we'd probably be out of business by now.

  John Raese

  Running, Government, Lines

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• Anything that the private sector can do, the government can do it worse.

  Dixie Lee Ray

  Government, Can Do

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• We are a mixed economy. We will remain a mixed economy. The public and private sector will continue to play a very important role. The private sector in our country has very ample scope and I am confident that India's entrepreneurs have the capacity, and the will to rise to the occasion.

  Manmohan Singh

  Country, Play, Entrepreneur

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• Outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or economically as the private sector.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Doe, Function

  A Time for Choosing (aka "The Speech"), Air date 27 October 1964, Los Angeles, CA

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• I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Government, Economic

  "Bush launches criticism against Obama" by Ewen MacAskill, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2009.

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• If we are to make poverty history, we must have the active participation of States, civil society and the private sector, as well as individual volunteers.

  Kofi Annan

  Helping Others, Volunteer, Poverty

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• It is time for corporate America to become 'the third pillar' of social change in our society, complementing the first two pillars of government and philanthropy. We need the entire private sector to begin committing itself not just to making profits, but to fulfilling higher and larger purposes by contributing to building a better world.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Government, Two, America

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• In today's knowledge-based economy, what you earn depends on what you learn. Jobs in the information technology sector, for example, pay 85 percent more than the private sector average.

  William J. Clinton

  Success, Jobs, Business

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001”, p.2214, Best Books on

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• In the coming era of manned space exploration by the private sector, market forces will spur development and yield new, low-cost space technologies. If the history of private aviation is any guide, private development efforts will be safer, too.

  Burt Rutan

  Technology, Yield, Space

  "After the X Prize". www.wired.com. December 1, 2004.

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• You can't fall back on the private sector and say, 'You take care of the nation's banking system.' That's a fundamental function of the government, the Federal Reserve, the Treasury and the FDIC, etc. All of those agencies have a major role to play there.

  Dick Cheney

  Fall, Agency, Government

  Interview with Larry Kudlow, www.nationalreview.com. May 28, 2009.

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• The job numbers are positive. We've had more jobs created now than were lost during the recession. We're seeing that the creation, we're seeing those numbers not only grow but shift toward the private sector and shift toward full-time employment and these are all signs that the recovery is taking some hold but we're not out of woods.

  Stephen Harper

  Positive, Jobs, Recovery

  "Postmedia News" Interview, nationalpost.com. January 12, 2011.

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• The important thing for the survival of the Thai society is that the majority of those who work, both in the government and the private sector, still strive to work in the same direction; this is why the Thai nation still stands.

  Bhumibol Adulyadej

  Government, Survival, Important

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• A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  Running, Country, Children

  "A Century of Giving Back" by Queen Rania al Abdullah, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 8, 2011.

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