Top 160 Private Sector Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Private Sector Quotes from famous people such as Jeff Greenfield, Seth Berkley, Erin O’Toole, Ajit Pai, N. R. Narayana Murthy, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Conservatives may worship Adam Smith's 'invisible hand,

Conservatives may worship Adam Smith’s ‘invisible hand,’ but for Obama, the helping hand comes in large measure from the public, not the private sector. To call this ‘socialism’ is to do violence to the word and to the concept. To call it ‘un-American’ is a smear.
Jeff Greenfield
GAVI works collaboratively with the private sector – from investment banks to vaccine suppliers to corporations to members of the Forbes 400 – to find new and better ways to raise and apply resources and broaden the base of participants in global health.
Seth Berkley
For many years I have talked about building a Hire a Veteran culture in Canada in order that both public and private sector employers understand and value military training and experience in their hiring programs. For me, this work began long before I became a Member of Parliament.
Erin O’Toole
Overly restrictive regulations not only stifle the private sector; they also ultimately hurt consumers.
Ajit Pai
All developmental activities for the common man such as education, healthcare, shelter and food distribution should be handled by reputed private sector institutions. It should be a competitive market in order to prevent the formation of monopolies.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
By the mid-1950s, more than a third of all America workers in the private sector were unionized. And the unions demanded and received a fair slice of the American pie.
Robert Reich
Mitt Romney has a proven job creation record as governor and in the private sector.
Gordon Smith
When it imposes expensive regulatory mandates on the private sector, Congress often acts on the basis of interest-group pressures, anecdotes, and the emotions of the moment. The executive branch is hardly perfect, but it is far less likely to do that.
Cass Sunstein
Local authorities face huge housing issues with demands outstripping supply many times over; the only way those in housing need can be housed is in the private sector.
Jeremy Corbyn
We want the private sector to be able to invest. The private sector works quite well.
Maxime Bernier
The healthcare bill not only is a monstrosity in terms of growing the government and cutting out the private sector, the way it was passed was sleazy. Every old Washington trick was used to pass the healthcare bill.
Lindsey Graham
Jobs are created in the private sector. Not by the president or the government unless they’re government jobs.
Jesse Ventura
I am not someone who tends to advocate for increased government involvement in the private sector.
Frederick W. Smith
Embryonic stem cell research is legal in America, and nothing in the administration’s current policy affects that legality; 400 lines are currently being used to conduct embryonic stem cell research, both in the private sector and by the Federal Government.
Roger Wicker
It’s been 35 years since I left school. Almost nine of them were in government; all the rest were in the private sector. And I’ve proven over time to be a great leader.
Joe Lhota
I think we need to significantly reduce the regulatory burden on the private sector. The Obama administration is doing the opposite. They’re loading on more and more regulation on the private respect to how the economy functions.
Dick Cheney
We feel that the government should not interfere too much in private sector.
Arvind Kejriwal
In the private sector, you have a budget and you stick to it.
Rob Ford
The biggest difference between the private sector and public sector is in the private sector, there’s a sense of urgency because you have customers and you have competitors. Whereas in government, one of your major objectives is to not make any really big mistakes.
Charlie Baker
When private sector, government, social, and philanthropic leaders apply innovative partnerships and technologies to address social challenges and build sustainable communities, the impact is multiplied.
Tae Yoo
I worked my way up in the private sector and implemented Georgia’s tough voter ID law.
Karen Handel
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.
Trey Gowdy
I ran for Congress not because I was having a mid-life crisis. I left the private sector because I saw a looming financial crisis that was coming to this country. It’s unsustainable.
Steve Daines
Some bold and structural reforms have been initiated such as easing on limits on foreign direct investment in defence manufacturing, privatisation of six more airports and allowing private sector in commercial coal mining, which will open up investment in these sectors.
Anurag Thakur
Mitt Romney is a businessman, a turnaround artist, a CEO. That is who he is. The former governor has experience in the public and private sector.
Mark McKinnon
In the private sector, there is always innovation. There’s always change. There’s always improving productivity, and if you’re not leading that, you’ll be passed and ultimately go out of business. So there’s an urgency to constantly update and renew and to rethink your enterprise.
Mitt Romney
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.
William Julius Wilson
Al Gore’s problem, in my view, is that he never liked politics. He’s actually deeply uncomfortable in it but felt he had to do it because of his father. He’s much more comfortable in a private sector role and has, in fact, been much more successful in a private sector role, and I admire him for that.
Andrew Sullivan
I built private sector jobs all my life.
Rick Scott
Unfortunately, military servicemen and servicewomen often have a difficult time transitioning to jobs in the private sector once their duty is complete.
Tae Yoo
It strikes me as very strange that whereas Tennyson could support most of Mr. Buckley’s propositions about free trade, and the private sector, and private enterprise, Tennyson found no difficulty also in lending intellectual support to the idea of Women’s Liberation.
Germaine Greer
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Most of our funding goes to organizations and is then used to leverage the private sector.
Jane Alexander
From nuclear waste to Northern Rock and Metronet, risk is never transferred to the private sector – the state will always be forced to step in where there is a clear public interest.
John McDonnell
This is the 21st-century paradox: Even as political democracy has become the intellectual default mode for much of the world, the private sector usually trumps the public one when it comes to accommodating consumer choice.
Chrystia Freeland
I am now a member of the private sector. I’m happy. I’ve got a little foundation. You never say never, but I may have had my last race and that was the Presidential race. I think that you only get one shot.
Bill Richardson
Many people think that the U.S. is ahead in the frontier technology sectors as a result of private sector entrepreneurship. It’s not. The U.S. federal government created all these sectors.
Ha-Joon Chang
If I could create one job in the private sector by helping to grow a business, that would be one more than Congress has created in the last six months.
Evan Bayh
There is definitely a need for increasing capacity in higher education; a large part of this is being met in the technical education segment by the private sector and in the non-technical by the state sector. In the public sector, we will do whatever we can afford.
Pallam Raju
Because of my success in the private sector, I had the chance to run America’s largest city for 12 years, governing in the wake of its greatest tragedy.
Michael Bloomberg
I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.
Henry Rollins
The government should not be in control of the private sector. You create opportunity, you create business, you create development, you hand it to the investor and start creating something new.
Mohammad bin Salman
Some things are too important to be left to the private sector.
George Galloway
I’d spent 25 years in government when I left the Defense Department back in ’93, decided I’d go spend the rest of my career in the private sector, and then the president tapped me to come be his running mate. And it’s been a remarkable experience. I wouldn’t have missed it for the world.
Dick Cheney
Raising taxes won’t create private sector jobs.
Marco Rubio
I was secretary of the Treasury in 2008. In that role, I had the privilege to work with many talented men and women in government and the private sector who labored to pull our nation back from the brink of disaster.
Henry Paulson
We need to grow the private sector in every corner of New Mexico.
Susana Martinez
To foster entrepreneurship, expansion and job creation, more leaders at all levels of government have to demonstrate some understanding of what it takes to build and grow businesses in the private sector.
Elaine Chao
Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
Larry Elder
Fundamentally, our broadband policy has been and should continue to be based on private sector companies continuing to build out their networks to meet consumer needs.
Michael O’Rielly
Theft and corruption in the private sector is as bad as that in government and must be dealt with decisively by law enforcement agencies.
Jacob Zuma
The U.S. is the gold standard for clean air and clean water. We reached that point through private sector innovation and cooperation between Washington and the states to implement our nation’s environmental laws.
Andrew R. Wheeler
I thought the Bush economic policy was a disaster. We lost 500,000 private sector jobs during his tenure.
Bernie Sanders
I think most people believe success in government is how many fewer people are in government, not because you kick them off of benefits like unemployment but they’ve been able to control their own destiny because private sector employers have created more jobs.
Scott Walker