--- title: "18 Business Quotes By Jane Mayer" description: "18 Business quotes by Jane Mayer. Plus more from Jane Mayer and more Business sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/91a/jane-mayer-1031_business_amway-was-much-more-than-a-simple-direct_1614148.png" --- > [“Amway was much more than a simple direct-marketing firm. It was an organization devoted with missionary zeal to the very idea of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/amway-was-much-more-than-a-simple-direct-marketing-firm-it-was-an/) [Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-mayer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/91a/jane-mayer-1031_business_amway-was-much-more-than-a-simple-direct_1614148.png) > [“They're building a party from outside to take over the party - they're doing it by market segments - it's like a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/they-re-building-a-party-from-outside-to-take-over-the-party-they-re/) [Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-mayer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/05b/jane-mayer-1031_business_they-re-building-a-party-from-outside-to_1951996.png) > [“As Obama took office, America derived over 85 percent of its total energy from oil, gas, and coal. The business was enormous,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/as-obama-took-office-america-derived-over-85-percent-of-its-total/) [Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-mayer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a48/jane-mayer-1031_business_as-obama-took-office-america-derived-ove_1623684.png) > [“The Olin Corporation’s pollution was so extensive and intractable that the company faced the prospect of tens if not hundreds of millions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/the-olin-corporation-s-pollution-was-so-extensive-and-intractable/) [Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-mayer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7a6/jane-mayer-1031_business_the-olin-corporation-s-pollution-was-so_680791.png) > [ They \[the Kochs\] want free trade and cheap labour. They own the second-largest private company in America, which is a huge multinational… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/they-the-kochs-want-free-trade-and-cheap-labour-they-own-the-second/) [Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-mayer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/961/jane-mayer-1031_america_they-the-kochs-want-free-trade-and-cheap_1037770.png) > [“after Citizens United was that the business of manipulating politics from the ground up was now heavily directed and funded by the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/after-citizens-united-was-that-the-business-of-manipulating-politics/) [Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-mayer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b51/jane-mayer-1031_business_after-citizens-united-was-that-the-busin_2500636.png) > [“The company’s political activism was so unusually intense that one FTC attorney at the time told Forbes, “They’re not a business, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/the-company-s-political-activism-was-so-unusually-intense-that-one/) [Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-mayer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/20f/jane-mayer-1031_business_the-company-s-political-activism-was-so_2086100.jpg) > [“Yet the story line blaming environmental activists for its problems proved irresistible. Life magazine produced an elegiac photo essay called “End of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/yet-the-story-line-blaming-environmental-activists-for-its-problems/) [Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-mayer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/286/jane-mayer-1031_business_yet-the-story-line-blaming-environmental_1665524.jpg) > [“the government alleged that the company was little more than a pyramid scheme built upon misleading promises of riches to prospective distributors,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/the-government-alleged-that-the-company-was-little-more-than-a/) [Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-mayer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/09c/jane-mayer-1031_business_the-government-alleged-that-the-company_912374.png) > [“They made political contributions to party committees and candidates, such as Dole. Their business made contributions through its political action committee and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/they-made-political-contributions-to-party-committees-and-candidates/) [Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-mayer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/169/jane-mayer-1031_business_they-made-political-contributions-to-par_1819695.png) > [“the next year, the company released a terse statement announcing that it had pleaded guilty to defrauding the Canadian government and would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/the-next-year-the-company-released-a-terse-statement-announcing-that/) [Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-mayer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d07/jane-mayer-1031_business_the-next-year-the-company-released-a-ter_2001592.png) > [“In response to the rising concerns in Saltville, in 1970 Virginia passed strict new standards that the company said it couldn’t meet.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/in-response-to-the-rising-concerns-in-saltville-in-1970-virginia/) [Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-mayer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad8/jane-mayer-1031_business_in-response-to-the-rising-concerns-in-sa_2249553.png) > [“Fang soldiered on nonetheless, asking Koch what he wanted from the new Congress under Speaker Boehner. “Well,” Koch answered, with growing animation,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/fang-soldiered-on-nonetheless-asking-koch-what-he-wanted-from-the-new/) [Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-mayer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/307/jane-mayer-1031_business_fang-soldiered-on-nonetheless-asking-koc_949946.png) > [“the Koch brothers—owned virtually all of what had become under their leadership the second-largest private company in America. They owned four thousand…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/the-koch-brothers-owned-virtually-all-of-what-had-become-under-their/) [Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-mayer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0d0/jane-mayer-1031_business_the-koch-brothers-owned-virtually-all-of_2793084.png) > [“Two months into their tenure, Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee also led a crusade against alternative, renewable energy programs.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/two-months-into-their-tenure-republicans-on-the-house-energy-and/) [Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-mayer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b2/jane-mayer-1031_business_two-months-into-their-tenure-republicans_215759.png) > [“One former insider in the Kochs’ realm, who declined to be named because he feared retribution, described the early donor summits as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/one-former-insider-in-the-kochs-realm-who-declined-to-be-named/) [Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-mayer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b6/jane-mayer-1031_bottom-line_one-former-insider-in-the-kochs-realm-wh_1383710.jpg) > [“When World War II began, the high-octane fuel was used in bombing raids by German pilots. Like Davis, the Koch family benefited…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/when-world-war-ii-began-the-high-octane-fuel-was-used-in-bombing/) [Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-mayer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/586/jane-mayer-1031_business_when-world-war-ii-began-the-high-octane_2147322.jpg) > [ “a 1960 self-published broadside, A Business Man Looks at Communism, Koch claimed that “the Communists have infiltrated both the Democrat \[sic\] and… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/a-1960-self-published-broadside-a-business-man-looks-at-communism/) [Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-mayer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/995/jane-mayer-1031_armed-services_a-1960-self-published-broadside-a-busine_1593079.png) ## Other authors on Business - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-richard-branson-78442.jpg) Richard Branson 273 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/business/richard-branson/) - 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The other thing that's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/what-i-write-about-is-how-much-influence-it-s-had-in-things-like/) [Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-mayer/) > [“Two months into their tenure, Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee also led a crusade against alternative, renewable energy programs. They successfully…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/two-months-into-their-tenure-republicans-on-the-house-energy-and/) [Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-mayer/) > [ \[The Kochs\] they hate big government. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/the-kochs-they-hate-big-government/) [Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-mayer/) > [“Rob Reich, a professor of political science at Stanford University and co-director of the Stanford Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society, explains that private…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/rob-reich-a-professor-of-political-science-at-stanford-university-and/) [Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-mayer/) > [“During the previous eight years of Republican rule, this conservative corporate elite had consolidated its power, amassing enormous sway over the U.S. government’s regulatory…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/during-the-previous-eight-years-of-republican-rule-this-conservative/) [Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-mayer/) > [“Noble again chose Larry McCarthy, the veteran media consultant who was known for his ability to distill a complicated subject into a simple, potent,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/noble-again-chose-larry-mccarthy-the-veteran-media-consultant-who-was/) [Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-mayer/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/business/jane-mayer/#itemlist", "name": "18 Business Quotes By Jane Mayer", "numberOfItems": 18, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Amway was much more than a simple direct-marketing firm. 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As a result, Olin said, it would cease operations in Saltville by the end of 1972. 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The seminars were, in essence, an extension of the company’s corporate lobbying. They were staffed and organized by Koch employees and largely treated as a corporate project. Of particular importance to the Kochs, he said, was drumming up support from other business leaders for their environmental fights. 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Like Davis, the Koch family benefited from the venture. Raymond Stokes, director of the Centre for Business History at the University of Glasgow in Scotland and co-author of a history of the German oil industry during the Nazi years, Faktor Öl (The oil factor), which documents the company’s role, says, “Winkler-Koch benefited directly from this project, which was designed to help enable the fuel policy of the Third Reich.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jane Mayer" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/when-world-war-ii-began-the-high-octane-fuel-was-used-in-bombing/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/586/jane-mayer-1031_business_when-world-war-ii-began-the-high-octane_2147322.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/586/jane-mayer-1031_business_when-world-war-ii-began-the-high-octane_2147322.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/586/jane-mayer-1031_business_when-world-war-ii-began-the-high-octane_2147322.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“When World War II began, the high-octane fuel was used in bombing raids by German pilots. 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Board of Education, which had originated in Topeka, in the Kochs’ home state of Kansas. “The colored man looms large in the Communist plan to take over America,” Fred Koch claimed in his pamphlet. Welfare in his view was a secret plot to attract rural blacks to cities, where he predicted that they would foment “a vicious race war.” In a 1963 speech, Koch claimed that Communists would “infiltrate the highest offices of government in the U.S. until the President is a Communist, unknown to the rest of us.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jane Mayer" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/a-1960-self-published-broadside-a-business-man-looks-at-communism/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/995/jane-mayer-1031_armed-services_a-1960-self-published-broadside-a-busine_1593079.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/995/jane-mayer-1031_armed-services_a-1960-self-published-broadside-a-busine_1593079.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/995/jane-mayer-1031_armed-services_a-1960-self-published-broadside-a-busine_1593079.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“a 1960 self-published broadside, A Business Man Looks at Communism, Koch claimed that “the Communists have…” — Jane Mayer", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/business/jane-mayer/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/business/jane-mayer/", "name": "Business Quotes by Jane Mayer", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/business/jane-mayer/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/91a/jane-mayer-1031_business_amway-was-much-more-than-a-simple-direct_1614148.png" }, "description": "18 Business quotes by Jane Mayer. 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