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  • But the fact is, Mr. Chairman, for all the challenges the Postal Service of the 21st century faces, it still retains its traditional place as a key cog in how American businesses conduct their affairs and how Americans all across this land communicate.

  • And, of course, you have the commercials where savvy businesspeople get ahead by using their MacIntosh computers to create the ultimate American business product: a really sharp-looking report.

  • Instead of trade policy that is beneficial to American businesses and workers as well as our trade partners, we have a flawed trade policy that hurts all parties.

  • We both (Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett) insist on a lot of time being available almost every day to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. We read and think.

  • We owe to every businessperson and worker in America the best environment in the world to create a job. We owe that to American business. 35 percent corporate tax rate is the second highest in the world. We need to lower it so they don’t leave.

    Lindsey Graham at GOP primary debate at the University of Colorado Boulder in Boulder, Colorado, time.com. October 28, 2015.
  • Ten percent of American businesses disappear every year. ... It's far higher than the failure rate of, say, Americans. Ten percent of Americans don't disappear every year. Which leads us to conclude American businesses fail faster than Americans, and therefore American businesses are evolving faster than Americans.

  • The American Republic and American business are Siamese twins; they came out of the same womb at the same time; they are born in the same principles and when American business dies, the American Republic will die, and when the American Republic dies, American business will die.

  • American business would be run better today if there was more alignment between CEOs' interest and the company. For example, would the financial crisis of 2008 have occurred if the CEO of Lehman and Morgan Stanley and Goldman and Citibank had to take a very small percentage of every mortgage-backed security... or every loan they made?

    "Chesapeake Energy: Everything You Need To Know About The ‘World’s Biggest Fracker’". stateimpact.npr.org. May 29, 2012.
  • While the importance of a strong brand is widely understood, nothing is as misunderstood in American business as the question of how to use it.

  • I have to come to terms with the paternalism of American business. Companies are expected to take on so many social responsibilities which are the province of the state in Europe.

  • American business can out-think, out-work, out-perform any nation in the world. But we can't beat the competition if we don't get in the ball game.

  • We have seen numerous instances in which American businesses have brought in foreign skilled workers after having laid off skilled American workers, simply because they can get the foreign workers more cheaply. It has become a major means of circumventing the costs of paying skilled American workers or the costs of training them.

  • I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business.

  • The American people and American businesses are looking to the federal government to lead our nation on the path to economic recovery. It is time to stop splitting hairs. It is time to act.

  • American business needs a lifting purpose greater than the struggle of materialism.

    Herbert Hoover (1952). “The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover: The Cabinet and the Presidency, 1920-1933”
  • The lack of education and lack of skills don't hurt the unemployed, they hurt America and American business, making us less competitive in the global market.

  • Imagine how differently American business would function were our faith in the power of goodness to replace our faith in the power of money. Huge industries would no longer make billions of dollars on activities that diminish the well-being and safety of our children, our health, and our environment, on the pretext that it's "just business." To put money before goodness is idolatry, and the laws of the universe ensure that in the end all idols will fall.

  • It doesn’t matter who you marry, as long as he thinks like you and is a gentleman and a Southerner and prideful. For a woman, love comes after marriage.” “Oh, Pa, that’s such an Old Country notion!” “And a good notion it is! All this American business of running around marrying for love, like servants, like Yankees! The best marriages are when the parents choose for the girl. For how can a silly piece like yourself tell a good man from a scoundrel?

    Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.22, Hamilton Books
  • More customers for Canadian oil means that Canadian producers can charge more for their oil, which then means that American businesses and consumers will pay more for oil.

    "Is the Keystone XL Pipeline a Good Deal for Americans?" by Ron Wyden, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2011.
  • If our government servants had to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act as they have forced all of American business to do, they would be in jail.

  • American business, while it does not frown on helping the human race, frowns on people who start right in helping the human race without first proving that they can sell things to it.

    Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”
  • American businesses are looking for are certainty and executive orders don't really get them that.

    "Critics pan Obama's threat to bypass Congress". "The Five" with Kimberly Guilfoyle, Bob Beckel, Eric Bolling, Dana Perino, and Greg Gutfeld, www.foxnews.com. January 16, 2014.
  • American businesses deserve a federal government that doesn't stand in their way, not one that tries to chase them overseas.

    "Gov. Haley: 'We need a person that's going to go show courage ... Mitt Romney is the person to do it'". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. August 28, 2012.
  • For society, the Internet is wonderful, but for capitalists, it will be a net negative. It will increase efficiency, but lots of things increase efficiency without increasing profits. It is way more likely to make American businesses less profitable than more profitable. This is perfectly obvious, but very little understood.

    Charlie Munger's comments on the impact of technology and the Internet at the 2000 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, www.fool.com. May 1, 2000.
  • It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

    Richard J. Connors, Warren Buffett (2010). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.5, John Wiley & Sons
  • With the strong bipartisan rejection of the Dorgan amendment today, the Senate cast a vote in favor of the U.S. working to knock down unfair trade barriers that hurt American business and farmers

  • American businesses are struggling to pay outrageous, exploitive insurance bills for their employees, hampering our ability to compete globally.

    "The Question No One Asks About Healthcare" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 25, 2009.
  • Then by the springtime, you'll see us moving an effort to cut taxes for working families, small businesses and family farms to reform our business taxes in this country so that American businesses can compete more effectively with businesses around the world.

    Source: www.dailyjournal.net
  • We have reached in this country an amazing degree of general prosperity, with American business on the whole no longer facing an uphill climb.

  • Last year, Congress passed a law that directs the Federal Reserve to set limits on debit card swipe fees that are reasonable and proportional to the cost of processing those transactions. Like most Americans, I had no idea that swipe fees charged to American businesses are the highest in the world.

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