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.

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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

• There's precedent for adjudicatory proceedings on technology issues to have massive consumer and business benefits. One of the most famous was the so-called Carterfone decision in 1968.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Business
  • Technology
  • Decision

• 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

• I watch children a great deal; their idea is that rules are always negotiable, whereas you absolutely cannot joke at the airport about your toothpaste, and you cannot rollerblade in Grand Central Station. I keep running up against these things.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • Up
  • Great
  • Children

• There really is no shortcut just because you have a name, or you have some kind of access or some way you can solve all the problems. And I think one of the things I learned with FUBU, you have to understand that there's really only two ways of operating a business: more sales, or lower overhead.

  

  Daymond John
  • Business
  • Sales

• One thing about D.C. that's funny to me is that you end up running into famous political figures who you've seen on television who you think are not real until you see them.

  

  Maz Jobrani
  • Up
  • Real
  • Political

• Literature has the power to change lives, minds, and hearts.

  

  Cam'ron
  • Mind
  • Heart

• All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Greatness
  • Little
  • Naught

• 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