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Government – Small Business Quote of the Day

By Stefan Töpfer on Apr 08, 2009

A small business quote a day keeps you thinking, inspired and entertained. 

Business has a clear interest in minimising government regulation. It is therefore counter-productive for managers to take the position that if something is not illegal it is not immoral.”

Damian Grace (b. 1950) Australian academic, Australian Problems and Cases (1995) 

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Government – Small Business Quote of the Day

By Stefan Töpfer on Mar 25, 2009

 A small business quote of the day keeps you thinking, inspired and entertained. 

If the mood of the country is for fiscal responsibility then let’s get at that area of government which is the biggest waster of funds – the Defense Dept.”

Elizabeth Holtzmann (b. 1941) US politician, quoted in American Political Women (E. Stineman; 1980) 

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Government – Small Business Quote of the Day

By Stefan Töpfer on Mar 18, 2009

 A small business quote a day keeps you thinking, inspired and entertained 

The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.”

William Henry Beveridge (1879-1963) British economist & social reformer, Voluntary Action (1948) 

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Government – Small Business Quote of the Day

By Stefan Töpfer on Mar 11, 2009

A small business quote a day keeps you thinking, inspired and entertained 

“This is a conflict without battlefields or beachheads, a conflict with opponents who believe they are invisible.”

George W. Bush (b. 1946) US president, referring to terrorist attacks on US, 11 September 2001, speech (15 September 2001) 

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Government – Small Business Quote of the Day

By Stefan Töpfer on Mar 04, 2009

A small business quote a day keeps you thinking, inspired and entertained 

“Government should be less concerned with economies than with measures necessary for the prosperity of the kingdom… great expenditures may cease to be excessive if they lead to an increase in wealth.”

Francois Quesnary (1694-1774) French political economist, General Rules for the Economic Government of an Agricultural Kingdom (1757) 

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Government – Small Business Quote of the Day

By Stefan Töpfer on Feb 25, 2009

A small business quote a day keeps you thinking, inspired and entertained 

“Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence… man finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property to furnish means for the protection of the rest.”

Thomas Paine (1737-1809) British politician, philosopher & writer, Common Sense (1776) 

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Government – Small Business Quote of the Day

By Stefan Töpfer on Feb 18, 2009

A small business quote a day keeps you thinking, inspired and entertained 

“One of the things the government can’t do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.”

Lee Iacocca (b. 1924) US president of Ford Motor Company, chairman & CEO of Chrysler Corporation, Remark (17 June 1973) 

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Government – Small Business Quote of the Day

By Stefan Töpfer on Feb 11, 2009

A small business quote a day keeps you thinking, inspired and entertained 

“The rulers of the state are the only ones who should have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad.”

Plato (?428 – ?347 BC) Greek philosopher, The Republic (?370 BC) 

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Government – Small Business Quote of the Day

By Stefan Töpfer on Feb 04, 2009

A small business quote a day keeps you thinking, inspired and entertained 

“I think the government has an important role to play in the growth of the software industry as long as it becomes a catalyst and not a controlling authority.”

Narayana Murthy (b. 1946) Indian founder & CEO of Infosys, quoted on www.rediff.com (2000) 

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