- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Business Quotes
On risk, reinvention and the realities of business.
These quotes cover business from a few honest angles: the risk small operations take on hiring, breaking into an industry you weren't trained for, and how far an entire business can shift over the years. For more, see our Businessman quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm grateful for the ascendancy of women in business and politics, which may yet advance the humanity of those callings.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It turns out that Donald Trump has been very good at buying low and selling high, and it helps account for his amazing business success.
- Company
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- Nov 07, 2020
When businesses don't spend and invest, they don't hire and cannot offer better-paying jobs. Business investment and wages are two sides of the same mirror. If a company purchases five trucks rather than 10, there are five fewer trucking jobs.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many people do not understand that business investment is a critical prosperity-booster, leading to more jobs, higher wages, and stronger family income. Put another way, rising tax and regulatory burdens that penalize investors and businesses also punish middle-income wage earners.
- Economy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kennedy had already, in 1962, lowered investment taxes on business. And after his tragic assassination, his broader tax proposals were passed into law in early 1964. And they worked. The U.S. economy grew by roughly 5 percent yearly for nearly eight years.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The economy has barely recovered from the so-called 'Great Recession', with a 2 percent annual rate of growth since mid-2009. Peak worker wages, business investment, and productivity all occurred around the year 2000.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Corporate tax reform should include not just large C-corps but also smaller business S-corps and LLC pass-throughs. And nearly as important as cutting business tax rates is the need to simplify the inexplicably opaque and complex system.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is more important is that Foreign Service Officers understand business, about the needs of U.S. business and how to help U.S. companies make the right connections abroad.
- Attitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must advertise to U.S. business that we are there, that our attitude has changed, and that we care. When we are asked to help, we have to perform and provide the right advice.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to spend a lot more time training people to be good advocates of U.S. business.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020