Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can't have a healthy economy, you can't have a healthy anything in a degraded environment.
The state of the economy is not the issue when it comes to growing a business. The relevant questions are always: 'What business are you in? Furthermore, is it adapting to the times?'
If Japanese companies don't reform drastically and implement English as their daily business language, the economy will only continue to contract.
Lower taxes, less government spending on domestic programs and fewer regulations mean a better economy for everybody.
The realities of the modern global economy require government to play a substantial role in ensuring the national and economic security of the people.
The economy grows when families can spend money on personal priorities rather than priorities imposed by the federal government.
The problem is that when government controls the economy, those who can influence government keep winning, and everybody else just stays the same.
In Michigan, a liberal democrat raised taxes and kept their government programs at the same level. And guess what? Their economy continued into the toilet, it continued down.
Barack Obama inherited a bankrupt economy, a bankrupt government, and a bankrupt foreign policy.
Fixing health care and fixing the economy are two sides of the same coin.
With unemployment still abysmally high, the Obama economy is crushing Hispanics' dreams for their children to live a better life.
The smartest thing we can do to create high-wage jobs and grow our economy is to keep our focus on education.
We've got a lot of work to do: not only on education, but on the economy, on our tax code, and on reducing our crushing debt.
Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.
The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons.
Having women on boards is good for women, good for the economy and good for society. A win-win-win outcome: how rare.
The number of realists who are betting that both the 'economy gets healthy soon' and this government gets spending under control is a tiny group, indeed.
Republican governors are leading the way in helping the private sector create new jobs, reforming government and getting our economy back on track.
My own belief is that the way we grow the economy, create jobs, create wealth is in the private sector. The government doesn't do that.
Everyone, young and old, must have access to the knowledge and skills to participate in the evolving economy.
A lot of the economy is indeed being supplied by goods that are produced offshore. And much of the reason for that is societal.