Glenn Beck Quotes

Governance is complex, difficult, and on the whole, thankless - why ever should the Bright Young Things leave the management of their hotels, newspapers, banks, TV channels and corporations to join, like fleas on a behemoth, the government? Wherein lies the difference between the two worlds?

There isn't one thing the federal government does that anybody in Big Business would emulate, at least not in the profit sector.

The line between what government does and what a company does is getting blurred.

To attach full confidence to an institution of this nature, it appears to be an essential ingredient in its structure that it shall be under a private direction—under the guidance of individual interest, not of public policy.

Corporate trading is vicious in principle. The directors of such companies, being the managers rather of other people's money than of their own, it cannot well be expected that they should watch over it with the same anxious vigilance with which the partners in a private copartnery frequently watch over their own … Negligence and profusion must always prevail, more or less, in the management of the affairs of such a company

There are men running governments who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches.

You could transfer Congress over to run Standard Oil or General Motors, and they would have both things bankrupt in two years.

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

Before Enron, I think people were a bit more naive about the way things worked, and I think Enron pulled the curtain back on unsavoury practices that turned out to be a lot more widespread.

If troubled companies want to explain away 2008 as a 'black swan,' then someone should take responsibility for creating the oil slick that seems to have tarred the entire flock!

We are shrinking the size of the federal government as a percent of our economy from over 21 percent of the economy to 19 percent of the economy. At the same time, we're growing the private economy.

The government is determined to bring the program back on track, and proceed with the privatizations.

We can't expect Wall Street to police itself - that's why we have a federal government.

Businesses should be focused on business, and social responsibility should be government responsibility.

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.

We ought to start running the government like a private-sector business. I have that ability as CEO of our companies. I have line item vetoes, and if I didn't, we'd probably be out of business by now.

Self-dealing, essentially, occurs when managers run companies to line their own pockets instead of those of the companies' owners. It's been a perennial problem in American capitalism and became a real dilemma when America moved toward a model in which corporations would be run by professional managers who had only small ownership stakes.

Ken Lay has, does and will continue to accept responsibility for the fall of Enron. He was the man at the controls. But failure is not a crime.

Larry, I spent probably most of my professional life helping to build Enron Corporation. I don't think there was anyone that was as shocked by the - by the collapse of the company as I was.

Enron had already collapsed and filed for bankruptcy protection by the beginning of 2002. But despite complaints from short sellers that corporations had used accounting gimmickry to inflate their profits, many investors thought the crisis at Enron was an isolated case.

Early 2000s, we get Enron, which tells us the books are dirty. And what is our repeated response? We just keep pulling the threads out of the regulatory fabric.

The public sector can serve as a catalyst for changing attitudes in the private sector.

Governments are not like a business. They don’t look like a business, work like a business, think like a business, and they don’t have a bottom line.

Less Government in Business and More Business in Government

I don’t trust a private entity to do a public chore.