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institutions; and it is therefore our right and duty to see that they work in
harmony with these institutions.

—Theodore Roosevelt, US president (from his Message Communicated to the Two Houses of
Congress at the Beginning of the First Session of the Fifty-Seventh Congress, December 3, 1901)

We also need to reduce corporate tax rates. This applies to small, medium and
large businesses. At 35 percent, we have the second highest corporate rates in
the world. It restricts the growth of small enterprises that need to plow capital
back into their businesses and forces companies and jobs to move overseas.

—Meg Whitman, CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Business is always interfering with pleasure—but it makes other pleasures
possible.

—William Feather, publisher and author

All business is basically about customers and marketing and making money and
capitalism and winning and promoting it and having something someone really
wants. If you look at the Dairy Queen model it pretty much works for almost
everything. You know what you’re doing and you know who your customers are
and if you don’t drop too much ice cream, chances are you can make a living.

—Roger Ailes, former chairman of Fox News Channel and Fox Television (Financial Times,
October 6, 2006)

Business is all about solving people’s problems—at a profit.

—Paul Marsden, writer and businessman