Cost of Doing Business Quotes

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

I think the private sector for the most part, the vast majority of employers in America, they wake up in the morning, and they have a bottom line. This is how much they make, this is how much their expenses are; they certainly need to break even just to stay in business, and they need to make a profit in order to survive long-term.

Employers' national income is a particular disincentive to employ because it is an expense without benefit.

Decreased business base increases overhead. So does increased business base.

Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort.

My expenses are largely a fixed, sunken cost, regardless of how much revenue I earn.

All businesses tend to pass costs onto customers.

Higher taxes kill jobs. Regulations kill jobs.

You've got to open on a Sunday, but at the end of the day, you've just lost a lot of money by opening on the Sunday, so it's very, very difficult to make money when you're paying unskilled people $42 per hour.

Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.

It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them hard in their pocketbook and on their balance sheet. We need to show them that their stock prices will be affected if their actions encourage Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.

Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excessive taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous lawsuits.