Business Quotes

I’m not nearly the saint some of my fans imagine and I’m nowhere near the devil my detractors wish, so you simply take both of those with a grain of salt.

No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work.

Donald Rumsfeld. Love him or hate him, you’ve gotta admit: a lot of people hate him.

When I was on my way to the podium a gentleman stopped me and said I was as good a politician as I was an actor. What a cheap shot.

I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.

If you can’t take a good kicking, you shouldn’t parade how much luckier you are than other people.

The art critics on some of Britain’s newspapers could as easily have been assigned gardening or travel, and been cheerfully employed for life.

I just don’t really get into all that sort of personal negative stuff. My job is to outline some positive plans for the country’s future and perhaps Mr. Howard and the Government don’t like the fact that I’m putting out some positive alternatives. What’s their preference.. for me to be a negative carping opposition leader?

We want a national emissions trading scheme, the Government does not and has rejected one for years. We want to boost the mandatory renewable energies target, the Government has failed to do that. We want a national demand side management strategy for the country to reduce electricity consumption and the Government, up until now, has done very little on that score.

Mr Howard’s problem is for so long he’s been a climate change sceptic, how can he, therefore, put himself to the country as part of a climate change solution for the future.