Donald Evans Quotes

It's been 35 years since I left school. Almost nine of them were in government; all the rest were in the private sector. And I've proven over time to be a great leader.

I like the fact that Donald Trump has been in the private sector. I like that he's had to make a payroll. I like that he's had to do projects.

We make a lot of fun at President Clinton's expense. But this transition is going to be tough because it's been 25 years since this guy has gotten laid in the private sector.

I always intended to return to the private sector.

My life has been quite interesting professionally.

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.

You look at Governor Romney's record in the private sector, he helped turn businesses around. Certainly a decade ago he took what would have been an international disaster with the U.S. Olympics, and turned it around for America and made us great again with the Olympics in Salt Lake City.

I started my career in the private sector and then became U.S. attorney. I think I was a stronger U.S. attorney, and I frankly think I am a stronger Chair of the SEC, because of that experience.

I wouldn't trade the best days of my life in the private sector for the worst days of my life in the public sector.

There are certain people throughout my career I've earmarked as smart people I would like to work with. And I'm not just talking about advertising people.

I would like to go back to the private sector at some point.

Before entering Parliament, I spent my career in the city and in business.

I have invested at least 20 years in business and my own reputation. I'm excited to come into public service, because I think I have something to offer and to contribute. In no way will I put myself in a position of undoing what's taken 20 years to build.

For the private sector to flourish, special privilege must give way to equal opportunity and equal risk for all.

I'm lucky to have been able to represent different companies over my career.

The Chinese government today finds it hotter than ever to attract, develop, and retain talent. Graduates from the country’s top universities, who once would have filled government posts, are instead choosing to take jobs in the private sector. Ironically, by creating new opportunities for talented people, three decades of reform have made undertaking new reforms more difficult

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It’s the private sector that produces the jobs, but the private sector needs roads and an educated workforce.

For years, I did whatever I could just to pay the bills and gain experience and work with as many different people as I could.

When commercial banking opened up for the private sector, I set up the retail-banking division for ICICI and grew it substantially. I then ran the international side of the ICICI Bank for a few years.

In the private sector, you have a budget and you stick to it.

Because of my success in the private sector, I had the chance to run America's largest city for 12 years, governing in the wake of its greatest tragedy.

I'm an actor doing a job, but I'm also living a life.

I have stocked shelves, waited on tables, and bartended. I have been a salesperson at many levels. Each giving me a unique view of what made a company successful and, even more importantly, what made a company fail.

Every job that you have might not be the perfect job, but you really take away different things, and you create relationships.