Business Environment Quotes

With whom is one supposed to do business in this country?

In terms of competitiveness of new global environment, Kenya will have absolutely no choice but to tackle the most important constraint to its development: it has been corruption.

It is the policies of the Obama Administration that has led to a stagnated economy as well as high unemployment, as well as many of the other issues that we face.

When people come and invest in India, they invest on a certain premise, and the fact that the very premise can change worries them a lot.

I was quite convinced that I didn't want to be a lawyer. But I felt that law school would be a useful way to understand public policy and to understand business in this environment.

Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.

A focus on regulatory overreach, things that the benefit doesn't outweigh the cost, is probably the single greatest opportunity we have for having a positive impact on job creation.

If a private investor is raising his hand and saying, 'I don't have the conditions with which to work,' then the government has the responsibility to create those conditions.

The U.K.'s reputation as a business destination will suffer if its authorities cannot be relied on to enforce the law.

We have to make America the best place in the world to do business.

I think in Washington, D.C., a lot of people are talking down about business.

I have been on shop floors. I have talked to a lot of the companies that create jobs in South Carolina and across the country. And what they want is less regulation.

Business does not go where there is corruption and the rule of law does not apply.

Technological change is never an isolated phenomenon. This revolution takes place inside a complex ecosystem which comprises business, governmental and societal dimensions. To make a country fit for the new type of innovation-driven competition, the whole ecosystem has to be considered.

It's about improving the business climate to give people a better chance of succeeding.

You've got to have free markets with limited government, with the proper amount of regulation where you don't jam entrepreneurship.

To me, America is just another market.

There is big resistance from vested interests in China that don't want to open up to competition.

U.S. federalism is 50 permanent incentives for entrepreneurial governance. Capital and talent are mobile; they go where they are welcome, and remain where they are well treated. Wise states compete to be hospitable. Unwise ones, with self-defeating insouciance, ignore federalism’s incentives. They denounce such competition as a “race to the bottom.” The top, as those states define it, is a fantasyland where government can extract as much as it wants from immobile wealth.

Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, it's around the world.

I stayed back in Delhi for a year-and-a-half while I was working in the corporate sector. My office was in Qutab Institutional Area, and I used to live in CR Park at that point.

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

The number one thing in this world that has brought people out of poverty is the ease of doing business. And it's getting harder and harder and harder. I mean, you basically have the Democrats out there saying I should pay more and more taxes on the profits I make.

In China, the government is involved in business in many different ways. They're involved in media and business. When you go to China, you have to rethink how you're doing everything. You have to become Chinese.

We need to draw up a regime where government can be an enabler for manufacturing to compete at good quality and prices.