Corporate Background Quotes

My wife, well she has extensive experience, because before becoming the first lady, she was the wife of the CEO of a large conglomerate. So I have very high hopes that she will carry out her job successfully as first lady of the Republic of Korea.

I have never run a public company. I spent my entire life working for a private company.

It's so sad to see how few people in the Obama administration have any private sector experience.

I've had a lot of different companies. I've been in banking and automobiles and real estate and a lot of things.

Obama administration didn't have one person who had ever worked in business. Not one Obama cabinet member had ever seriously had a job, run a company, met a payroll in the American economy. And, as such, no way of understanding how business is done, from negotiations to any other aspect of it. In fact, people in Obama's cabinet were arrogant and condescending and looking down on those people as a bunch of shysters and a bunch of cheats and people that kill their customers and they're destroying the planet.

When I came to Congress, I came to bring what I thought was a real-world business perspective to government because, in the business world, I spent over 20 years in the high-tech industry, but it certainly was not unique.

I'm not a trained academic. Neither am I a veteran social worker. I was 26 years in the corporate world, trying to make organizations profitable. And then in 2003 I started Parikrma Humanity Foundation from my kitchen table.

I grew up in Dallas, and my dad works for IBM, so I grew up in the environment of Silicon Prairie.

I came from a very corporate environment, but my own style is quite approachable, warm, and very detail oriented.