John Raese Quotes

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

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• I don't think the federal government has any business keeping a list of law-abiding Americans who exercise their constitutional right to keep and bear arms.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Business
  • Think
  • Law

• I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Up
  • Family
  • Business

• The pressure suit helps if something goes wrong during launch or re-entry - astronauts have a way to parachute off the shuttle. The suits protect you from loss of pressure in case of emergency.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Pressure
  • Loss
  • Suits

• In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • World
  • Great
  • Country

• There are many things which swallow up men's thoughts while they live, which they will think little of when they are dying. Hundreds are wholly absorbed in political schemes and seem to care for nothing but the advancement of their own party. Myriads are buried in business and money matters and seem to neglect everything else but this world.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Up
  • World
  • Men

• Usually when you're working is when people want you to work. They don't want you as much when you're not working. That's the frustrating nature of our business.

  

  Faith Ford
  • People
  • Work
  • Business

• I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad.

  

  Ian Botham
  • Remember
  • Age
  • Parents

• My mom is awesome. She's really young. My mom is 40, and she raised me listening to Nirvana and Courtney Love and Coldplay, Gin Blossoms, The Cranberries, and stuff. Like, my early, early memories are of being a little kid running around in floral skirts and Doc Martens when I was, like, three.

  

  Halsey
  • Mom
  • Memories
  • Awesome

• At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Business
  • Like
  • Point

• You find that you can have the best business in the most exciting industry, but if the execution, if the torch-holder, if the value-creator isn't there, then we don't make it happen.

  

  Dan Levitan
  • Business
  • Best
  • Value

• After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • People
  • World
  • Business

• As governor, I enjoy the opportunity to talk about Utah's measurable business success.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Business
  • Success
  • Opportunity

• I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Great
  • Want
  • Death

• Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the predictability that business needs.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Time
  • Business
  • Giving

• Whaling was the oil business of its day.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Business
  • Day
  • Oil

• PepsiCo is a $63 billion company. Half the company is snacks, and half the company is beverages. We have a glorious snacks business and a glorious beverage business. We are extremely profitable. We are growing.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Business
  • Growing
  • Company

• I created my own party. It's called the Sloth and Indolence Party, and I'm running as an anarchist candidate in the best sense of that word. I've studied the presidency carefully.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Running
  • Party
  • Best

• Now in business we do a cost benefit analysis before we make policy changes. Washington should as well.

  

  Vicky Hartzler
  • Business
  • Changes
  • Now

• In the business world, bad news is usually good news - for somebody else.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • World
  • Good
  • Business

• I only know two cats in this business that really had it all; Elvis was one of those guys, the other was Ricky Nelson. There was a difference in those two guys though. Elvis moved...Ricky never had to; he stood flat footed and captivated his audience with his good looks. We grew up with him; those who didn't missed something. History books are gonna have to say that he played a big role in Rock 'n' Roll music.... and he did it his way.

  

  Carl Perkins
  • Business
  • Audience
  • Difference

• The guitar is my favorite and the one, I guess, I'm best at. But I play enough of the different instruments to be able to write with them and to, hopefully, to make myself look impressive on stage.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Enough

• Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

  

  Jean Paul
  • Great

• 'You are a worm who thought himself a serpent just because you slither. But your power was not real, Pliny. It was all a dream. Time now to wake.'

  

  Pierce Brown
  • Time
  • Real
  • Power

• 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
  • Business
  • Running