Best Private Sector Quotes

The money has to go to the federal government because the federal government will spend that money better than the private sector will spend it.

Major investment decisions have become too important to be left to the private sector.

Less than 8 percent of private sector workers belonged to a union in 2004, and, overall, only 12.5 percent of American workers carry a union card – down from about one-third of workers in labor’s heydays in the 1950s.

The private sector is creating a miracle a day, even as the stuff that government attempts is failing left and right.

I am counting on the private sector, because it is crucial to Senegal’s future.

I support the state, but not the state-run economy. The state should intervene only to create the conditions necessary for the private sector to thrive.

Spain has been massively diverting capital from the private sector into politically favored environmental projects for the better part of a decade…every green job created, eliminated 2.2 real jobs and cost around $800,000 each!

Washington State has a strong tradition of a positive relationship – positive working relationship between labor and management, whether in the private sector or the public sector. It needs to continue to be that way.

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

The founding fathers, in their wisdom, devised a method by which our republic can take one hundred of its most prominent numbskulls and keep them out of the private sector where they might do actual harm.

Who wants good people in government? Good people should be in the private sector. Helping us out, helping themselves out in the private sector. We want schmoes in government. We want people who can’t find the doorknob. Why waste productive people, as well as looting the taxpayer?

Mitt Romney understands the private sector, he understands how profit is created, and he isn’t embarrassed by it.

Government should take management lesson from private sector.

Government does not do ANYthing as well as the private sector does, and that includes educating your children.

It would be fun to have someone in the White House who has worked in the private sector… and someone who understands that wealth creation is a good thing and they want more of it. Wealth is good.

Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.

I believe we’re past the point where the government or the private sector can solve all problems, it’s all about partnerships.

Rethinking capitalism means rethinking the role of the public sector, the role of the private sector, the role of finance, and the relationship between them all.

The diiference is that in the private sector you work for yourself, and as Prime Minister I work for every single Haitian – inside Haiti and outside – and for all those who love Haiti as well.

You know, it doesn’t take a genius in the private sector to know that you can save literally hundreds of billions of dollars in federal spending if you can make it more responsive. That’s the main job.

We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have worked, but it didn’t.

History has shown that a government’s redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector’s creation of new sources of it, can prove more destructive than even the most deadly enemy.

I think what people understand there probably – well, they were hoping the private sector would do it [rescuing AIG ].

When you go into public service, you understand you’re trading something. You want to feel good about what you do, but you’re not going to make what people in private sector make.

If I were the treasury secretary or head of the Fed, you know, I would try to scare the hell the out of the private sector and say, you better save this because you’re going down with the ship.

My research clearly reveals that if we want to put inner-city workers to work immediately, we just can’t rely on the private sector. They don’t want to touch them; they don’t want to hire them.

Government has a habit of blaming the private sector for its own failings while taking credit for advances we in fact owe to the private sector.

Conservatives brayed that government should stay out of the private sector; liberals bleated for nationalizing the banks.

More people on unemployment benefits is not success in America, fewer people on not because we kicked them off but because they have been able to get a job in the private sector, because government got out of the way.

The biggest culprits in the housing fiasco came from the private sector, and more specifically from a mortgage industry that was out of control.

It takes four private-sector jobs to support every public-sector employee.

The fastest growing occupation in the private sector is security guards. The fastest growing occupation in the public sector is prison guards. (1992)

I have argued that we need livelihood insurance, which would protect people against the risk of seeing their skills and expertise no longer needed. Such insurance could be offered by the private sector.

Obama is from this group that resents the private sector, resents the capitalistic means of production.

The way to create jobs is to encourage private sector job creators.