Business Role Quotes

I believe that we need to take government out of business, and then we need to take business and put business back into government because government has no place in our businesses

Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.

I knew I wanted to be a journalist ever since I was a teenager. While it is interesting and gratifying to be on the business side and to see how that all works, the main reason I kept a business role here was to protect the editorial integrity of Salon.

I'm not a businessman.

While government clearly plays the major role in fighting poverty through policies on things such as education, tax, and trade, business creates the wealth that matters.

Business can be a source of progressive change.

Business is not the aim of life; it's a game.

I'm not a TV guy. I'm a restaurant chef and a businessman.

Small businesses have played an important role in fueling past economic recoveries.

A great society is a society in which its men of business think greatly of their functions.

America can no more survive and grow without big business than it can survive and grow without small business.

It's clear that it is in the best interest of business to be part of the conservation, along with governments and civil society.

Business is recognizing the role it can play in combatting climate change. Thank God, is all I can say, for there is a desperately urgent need for business to play that role. Your lobbying influence can be substantial, but together, united and in large enough numbers it could prove decisive in turning the tide.

When businesspeople take credit for creating jobs, it's a little like squirrels taking credit for creating evolution. In fact, it's the other way around.

There is only one social responsibility of business

Businesses create every penny of the wealth we need to pay for our nation's schools, our NHS and our pensions. They are our only path to prosperity.

Businessmen need to understand the challenges of society and contribute to solving them.

Fifteen years ago, if you said business will help save the environment people would have laughed at you. Today, I believe that is a serious proposition.

Business must be the solution, not the problem.

We need business to understand its social responsibility, that the main task and objective for a business is not to generate extra income and to become rich and transfer the money abroad, but to look and evaluate what a businessman has done for the country, for the people, on whose account he or she has become so rich.

I’m not in the business of creating jobs.

In an age of interdependence, global citizenship - based on trust and sense of shared responsibility - is a crucial pillar of progress. At a time when more than one billion people are denied the very minimum requirements of human dignity, business cannot afford to be seen as the problem. Rather, it must work with governments and all other actors in society to mobilize global science, technology and knowledge to tackle the interlocking crises of hunger, disease, environmental degradation and conflict that are holding back the developing world.

I can see the immense capacity of business to give leadership.

Business is just about enabling human beings, nothing more, nothing less. Businesses need to recognize this fundamental fact.

A healthy society rests on three pillars: business, government and civil society, or non-profits. Each has a distinct and important role to play, and all three need to work together synergistically to create the most value for society.