Business Autonomy Quotes

The best way for you to keep Government out of your business is to promote competition.

This industry is a business - I'm a business myself, and I want to be able to run my own business.

I'm proud of my independence. And certainly from a business perspective, that's always been a main agenda for me - to make my own position, don't try and be like somebody else, because there already is that somebody else.

Once investors come in, it's hardly your company anymore!

I think the hallmark of a really good entrepreneur is that you're not really going to build one specific company. The goal - at least the way I think about entrepreneurship - is you realize one day that you can't really work for anyone else. You have to start your own thing. It almost doesn't matter what that thing is.

I think that might have been an element in it, and people have asked me that very thing. Remember, Disney is the majority shareholder, but it is not an operating division of Disney.

The private sector doesn't sit around and say - 'Well, since the president said we should do this, we should do it.'

I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.

In Silicon Valley, when you're a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.

For us, being a label, we took out the whole aspect of the business that goes into sifting through people who don't care, who don't get what you're trying to do. We can just hire and work with people who get it - the people who understand what this project is about. When you're on a label, you're just hoping somebody will stick their neck out and work for you. Most bands are just like, "I hope they do it. I hope they promote it." But being a label, we know exactly what's happening.

Effective competition requires that traders have large freedom of action when conducting their own affairs.

As I've said, in 2007, we're free to go and we'll just have to do what's best for the business.

If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State.

I do not believe that the government is in any position to say exactly how every single business and every single activity shall reach those performances.

I believe that companies that are independent are more competitive, ultimately.

The private sector, when left alone, can make better decisions than government can.

Politicians and bureaucrats must learn to stay away from the day-by-day functioning of business.

Let the business take care of itself. If you get involved in the business, every hour that you're involved in business is an hour that you're not practicing. And every hour that you're not practicing is another hour further away from where you want to be.

Franchises are independently owned and operated businesses whose owners are responsible for their operations.

I believe that businesses will do what is best for their business. I don't know that the government needs to be stepping in and telling them, 'This is what you will do.'

If your business depends on you, you don’t own a business—you have a job. And it’s the worst job in the world because you’re working for a lunatic!

We like our current shareholders and don't want to entice anyone to become one. It would help current shareholders to hear our CEOs [of the Berkshireoperating subsidiaries], but we promised them they could spend 100% of their time on their business. We place no impediments on them running their businesses. Many have expressed to me how happy they are that they don't have to spend 25% of time on activities they didn't like.

In not a single State of the Union is a married woman held to possess a right to her earnings within the family; and in not one-half of them has she a right to their control in business entered upon outside of the household. Should such a woman be successful in obtaining a patent, what then? Would she be free to do as she pleased with it? Not at all. She would hold no right, title, or power over this work of her own brain. She would possess no legal right to contract, or to license any one to use her invention. Neither, would her right be infringed, could she sue the offender.

The one thing I don't do, that helps make me successful, is I don't rob Peter to pay Paul. All of my businesses have to stand on their own.

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.