China Business Quotes

Our experience is that it is not terribly difficult to do business in China. But the issue is, how much stability do you have in terms of what you negotiate up front and when you've got your feet and your investments on the ground.

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.

China and the Asian territory is an incredible opportunity. We spend a lot of time looking at it, looking for the right partners.

Under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, a company is not allowed to provide a personal benefit to a decision maker in return for business. But hiring the sons and daughters of powerful executives and politicians is hardly just the province of banks doing business in China: it has been a time-tested practice here in the United States.

In China, you have to have a strong leader for a business to get anything done.

There has been a rising tide of criticism about China's treatment of foreign companies.

The situation with Tibet has to change. China is one of the last huge dictatorships, holding on to these colonies, provinces. That has to collapse. It's the responsibility of heads of business who are going to do business in China to lay down the law.

Google's real threat to China is not that it will leave the country. It's that it will embarrass China and damage its national reputation as a place to do business.

China can be a difficult market for IP in general and IP compliance.

I believe in fair trade, and I will tell you, I have many, many friends heading up corporations, and people that do just business in China, they say it's virtually impossible. It's very, very hard to come into China. And yet, we welcome them with open arms.

No company fails in communist China, because they're all partly owned by the government.

One has to understand China correctly. Our management there consists of native Chinese, we produce locally and our suppliers also come from China. In this way, we too can also enjoy the cost advantages.

There is something so fascinating about the 1.3 billion person market in China that businessmen become irrational. They do things in China that they normally would never do…. There’s something about China that makes foreigners act irrationally.

We should be doing more business with China. We should be better connected to the Chinese economy.

We are anxious and open to all forms of doing business in China.

The Chinese market is very, very unique.

China is an area where we need to be present. Lots of companies want to supply their products to China.

Our company has only been active in Beijing and Shanghai, two very market-dominated cities. This was an advantage. Land is purchased here in public auctions, in a transparent way. When you do real estate development outside Beijing and Shanghai it is good to have "guanxi" - good relations within the local government.