Top 11 American Businessman Quotes

#1. Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Edward Dahlberg

#2. When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Mark Twain

#3. O pusillanimous Heart, be comforted
And, like a cheerful traveller, take the road
Singing beside the hedge.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#4. And nobody knows where her new dorm room is - or even if she has one." She shook her head. "It's a mystery.

Shana Muldoon Zappa

#5. We cannot expect to be happy always ... by experiencing evil as well as good we become wise.

Hans Christian Andersen

#6. The secret was loyalty to the White House and to the Presidency, rather than to whoever happens to be occupying the office for four years, or eight.

J.B. West

#7. I don't speak Japanese, I don't know anything about Japanese business or Japanese culture. Apart from sushi. But I can't exactly go up to him and say "Sushi!" out of the blue. It would be like going up to a top American businessman and saying, "T-bone steak!

Sophie Kinsella

#8. My new play 'Chinglish,' which will go to Broadway, is about a white American businessman who goes to a provincial capital in China, hoping to make a deal there. It's bilingual. And it's about trying to communicate across language and cultural barriers.

David Henry Hwang

#9. I see my buildings as pieces of cities, and in my designs I try to make them into responsible and contributing citizens.

Cesar Pelli

#10. The book 'A Reliable Wife' is a slice of American history. It takes a part of American history and tells a story about the purchase of a wife by a Wisconsin businessman. The research of that would have been really interesting.

Patti LuPone

#11. American authors or scientists are prone to consider the wealthy businessman as a barbarian, as a man exclusively intent upon making money.

Ludwig Von Mises

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