Top 100 Quotes About Businessman
#1. The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
Roald Dahl
#2. The businessman turns out to have a lot of zanshin. Translating this concept into English is like translating "fuckface" into Nipponese, but it might translate into "emotional intensity" in football lingo.
Neal Stephenson
#3. My personal opinion is that I'm in the media too much. I'm not a politician, I'm a businessman. I would like to be without any extra visibility.
Viktor Vekselberg
#4. No young kid growing up dreams of someday becoming a businessman. He wants to be a fireman, a sponsored athlete or a forest ranger The Lee Iacoccas, Donald Trumps, and Jack Welchs of the business world are heroes to no one except other businessmen with similar values.
Yvon Chouinard
#5. To distract from the president's disappointing record, Team Obama has decided to base their entire campaign on attacking the private sector and Mitt Romney's career as a successful businessman.
Reince Priebus
#6. If a businessman makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences. If a bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences.
Ayn Rand
#7. One thing I always say is being a great chef today is not enough - you have to be a great businessman.
Wolfgang Puck
#8. There is no alternative. A Democrat is a Republican is a big businessman, and we're all consumers instead of citizens. It just manifests in the culture, in the music, in the art. I feel a little panicky about it.
Ani DiFranco
#9. Don't think," whispers Satan: he knows that an unconverted heart is like a dishonest businessman's financial records, they will not bear close inspection. "Consider your ways," says the Word of God
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J.C. Ryle
#10. Speaking as a human being, not as a businessman - the unions are great. The unions are great for the working people because they protect you, but I didn't see them that way as a young man. First of all, the papers would connect them with thee communists - labor unions were communists.
Jack Kirby
#13. My dad was a terrible businessman.
Al Franken
#14. I don't mind being identified as any character as long as I'm doing a good job as an actor. I have done all kinds of roles - from an editor, judge, police officer, murderer to a corrupt businessman.
Boman Irani
#15. When you think of Mitch Leigh as a businessman, remember he's also a composer. And when you think of Mitch Leigh as a composer, remember he's also a businessman.
Mitch Leigh
#16. I know I was a businessman for years, and I stayed up countless nights worrying about having to let one person go. It's a terrible thing to do.
Jim DeMint
#17. The politician dispenses wealth which other men have produced, and we say he is "compassionate," while the businessman who produces the wealth is dismissed as "greedy" and "materialistic.
R.W. Grant
#18. I am not a businessman. I am a business, man.
Jay-Z
#19. A sense of thrift is essential to success in business. The businessman must discipline himself to practice economy whenever possible, in his personal life as well as his business affairs.
J. Paul Getty
#20. Looking at these issues as a businessman, I believe that investing in the world's poorest people is the smartest way that our government spends money.
Bill Gates
#21. A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.
Paul Valery
#22. We are quite convinced that if he were alive today, as an astute businessman looking out to the future, he would be moving out of fossil fuels and investing in clean, renewable energy.
John D. Rockefeller
#23. Not my political ideas. Conservatism didn't buy this house. First and foremost I'm a businessman. My first goal is to attract the largest possible audience so I can charge confiscatory ad rates. I happen to have great entertainment skills, but that enables me to sell airtime.
Rush Limbaugh
#24. There are many questions, but I cannot answer because I'm not a businessman, I am a climber.
Anatoli Boukreev
#25. 'This is America,' my father used to say to me, 'and in this country, a smart young fellow like you can grow up and do just about anything.' My dad, no doubt, was thinking doctor, lawyer, teacher, scientist or businessman. I was thinking second baseman, New York Yankees.
Joe Lieberman
#26. The suit does not represent the businessman anymore. Nor does the loud shirt represent the rock star. The same man can now wear both.
Donatella Versace
#27. I'm not a TV guy. I'm a restaurant chef and a businessman.
Emeril Lagasse
#28. I've been happy with my life. Also very lucky. I lead two lives - businessman and racer - and it feels like the best of both worlds.
Connie Kalitta
#29. As an artist, you want to make good stories and create good art; as a businessman, you want to make money and make sure the investors are happy. The two will always clash, unfortunately.
Neil Jackson
#30. A Pakistan businessman is claiming that John Walker Lindh is gay and that he was his lover. Say what you will about Lindh, but when this guy goes to play for the other team - he goes all the way ... So Lindh may be both a terrorist and a gay man. That may be John Ashcroft's worst nightmare.
Jay Leno
#31. The businessman says 'If I don't do it first, somebody else will.' The artist says 'If I don't do it first, nobody else will.'
LeRoy Neiman
#32. One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.
Edward Abbey
#34. I used to be focused on being the dopest rapper in the game, and then once that became what I was, I wanted something different, and I wanted to become the best businessman in the game. I wanted to learn how to master the business like I mastered the rap.
Snoop Dogg
#35. The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.
LeBron James
#36. Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.
George Soros
#37. I appear wild on the outside, but I'm a conservative businessman.
Donny Deutsch
#38. In just about every gangster movie there is a scene where the mob boss says, 'Hey, I'm just a businessman.
William Hageman
#39. You don't have to be a spiritual seeker, you can be a businessman dealing with the revolution in computers. You could be a congressman, or a scientist. No matter what area of life and endeavor we are in we are seeing the signs of new-paradigm thinking.
Marianne Williamson
#41. As a businessman, you have to trust people. To find two people who lied the way [Vick and Petrino] lied, that's unique and that's not Arthur's fault. It's not a flaw of Arthur's. It's a flaw of these two guys.
Bernard Marcus
#42. A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.
Dalton Trumbo
#43. America has its roots in a tradition of risk-taking pioneers. In more conservative Europe, if you fail in business or actually end up going to jail for it, you're finished as a businessman for good.
Stelios Haji-Ioannou
#44. I certainly want to be involved in politics and help shape the transition. I am in contact with regime critics who had to leave for the West. One of them is Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former businessman, who had to endure 10 years in a prison camp.
Garry Kasparov
#45. Being a businessman, you want to invest your time and your heart into growth and a legacy, and sometimes it's about going over there and getting it. But you don't have to lose yourself.
Anthony Hamilton
#47. Geryon shrugged, which was very weird since he had three sets of shoulders. It looked like he was doing the wave all by himself. 'I work for anyone with gold, young lady. I'm a businessman.
Rick Riordan
#50. You have the knowledge of a businessman, the plans of a criminal mastermind, the actions of a cold-blooded killer, and the words of honor like those of a knight.
Kel Kade
#51. Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we'd kill 300 million people in the first hour. McNamara, who is a good businessman and likes to save, says it would be only 200 million.
Norman Thomas
#52. I have got to say, I'm a businessman, I work in business, worked with some very large corporations around the world, and I have never seen a better operating machine than what the New South Wales right machine is.
Warren Mundine
#53. My grandfather was a Methodist preacher, and my father was an unsuccessful businessman. We didn't have status or wealth.
Alexandra Stoddard
#54. Born in Jerusalem, Wadie Said went from being a dragoman to a salesman in the United States and thence to a hugely successful businessman in Egypt.
Penelope Lively
#55. My father, Abe, was a small businessman. For 32 years, he ran an exterminating company. That may explain why our family always associated the smell of roach spray with love.
Chuck Schumer
#56. Nothing like an endangered pocketbook to help a businessman find his conscience.
Susan Carol McCarthy
#57. My head's not in the clouds, but I think I've gotten too much credit for being an astute businessman.
Steven Spielberg
#58. Poor Tom did not know and could not learn that dissembling successfully is one of the creative joys of a businessman. To indicate enthusiasm was to be idiotic.
John Steinbeck
#59. Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment. The crypto-businessman is the true revolutionary in a Communist country.
Eric Hoffer
#60. I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman ... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has potential for a shelf life way out in the distance, then we'll stay. But if not, then we won't.
L.A. Reid
#61. I'm a businessman, and what I know is numbers and business.
Magic Johnson
#62. A businessman needs three umbrellas - one to leave at the office, one to leave at home, and one to leave on the train.
Paul Dickson
#63. My father has a manufacturing company in Kentucky, and he's an electrical engineer. A brilliant man. A brilliant businessman. So he understands the business aspects of my business very well. My dad and I always communicate when I have to negotiate a deal.
Laura Bell Bundy
#64. In order to change the direction of this country, we need to change presidents. Americans need a conservative businessman to get this economy moving again, not career politicians. That is why I am running. Next week, I will lay out my specific plan to put America back to work.
Mitt Romney
#65. I wanted to prove that a son of a politician can be a successful businessman.
Sunil Mittal
#66. There was Arctic John, a businessman from Salisbury who doesn't hold water, Bruce Knott, a social worker from Cumberland who spends his lunch hour picking his bum, and Judith Glycerine, the reformation pig.
St John Morris
#67. I have nothing bad to say about Hulk Hogan. In fact, compared to what I have seen in the press and all the high jinks of his life, I didn't see any of that coming, man. He was just a businessman who worked out.
Kurt Fuller
#69. I am a businessman at the end of the day. I have grown up with Excel sheets. I start out writing my novel with spreadsheets and the milestones in each chapter highlighted.
Ashwin Sanghi
#70. I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha. He and I never discussed his parentage, which was an open secret, but it fascinated me.
Arthur Golden
#71. Everyone asks for freedom for himself,
The man free love, the businessman free trade,
The writer and talker free speech and free press.
Robert Frost
#72. I'm a freestyle creative entrepreneur. Not a businessman. I like to create ventures in which creativity stands at the centre.
Lapo Elkann
#74. Everyone seems to have this awareness of Charlie Chaplin because he was a really good businessman while Buster Keaton wasn't.
French Stewart
#75. I knew I wanted to be a writer. Where I came from, no one was a writer. I came from Long Island, and everyone became a doctor or a lawyer or an engineer or a teacher or a businessman. I didn't know any writers.
Howard Gordon
#76. I want TNA to grow as a company, it's better for me as a performer and me as a businessman. But how can they grow if every chance they get they are constantly talking about up north and the WWE?
Chris Jericho
#77. As an esteemed businessman, he forgot one very important rule. He forgot to read the fine print. It wasn't an acquisition to own another person as he'd previously assumed. It was an agreement to acquire a soul.
Aleatha Romig
#78. I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.
Felix Dennis
#79. In expectation of his demise, a successful businessman may sell out to his competitors to prepare his estate with readily marketable securities, such as U.S. Treasury bonds. The confiscatory death tax eliminates many family enterprises and promotes the growth of giant corporations.
Hans F. Sennholz
#80. As a businessman, I saw club tracks as a new franchise that could be profitable for years to come. It was like being in McDonald's and realizing that even though cheeseburgers and fries sold big, you could also make money serving up McRibs, which are always available for a limited time only.
R. Kelly
#81. I'm a businessman, and I think there's nothing wrong with being a businessman provided you have the right headspace and do good things with the money you make.
Kim Dotcom
#83. I'm a good businessman. I pay my bills. Growing up in a situation where everything counted helps.
Kim Cattrall
#84. I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
John Cleese
#85. I was never, ever interested in becoming a businessman or an entrepreneur. If I was a businessman, or saw myself as a businessman, I would have never gone into the airline business.
Richard Branson
#86. I think my dad is the only Arabic descendent who is an unsuccessful businessman.
Shakira
#87. Size of industry, concentration of market, or production notwithstanding, the consumer is best served when the businessman is completely free to pursue his profit goals.
John Pugsley
#88. Germany's Angela Merkel exudes an atmosphere of elderly exhaustion and pooped-out pessimism. Britain's David Cameron, though by nature exuberant, feels he has to look and sound glum. And France's leader, Francois Hollande, seems determined to drive every successful businessman out of the country.
Paul Johnson
#89. I was a businessman for 16 years of my life, so when I started writing, I wanted to keep my literary identity separate.
Ashwin Sanghi
#90. Everyone thinks I'm a smart arse who can solve any bloody problem. I'm not. I'm just a very old businessman and a very experienced businessman who made every mistake in the book and can recognise one when I see one.
John Harvey-Jones
#91. I am a businessman. This is what I do each and every day. I love it. I love coming to work. I never have a bad day.
Magic Johnson
#92. There would not be any profits but for the eagerness of the public to acquire the merchandise offered for sale by the successful entrepreneur. But the same people who scramble for these articles vilify the businessman and call his profit ill-got.
Ludwig Von Mises
#93. The successful businessman must be able to foresee possibilities, to estimate with sagacity the outcome in the future.
Frank William Taussig
#94. Frankly speaking, I decided to become a businessman at the moment when I understood that it is possible, because I grew up in a country where it was not possible. There existed even a special article in the penal code of the Soviet Union which punished entrepreneurial activity.
Vladimir Potanin
#95. I understand the appeal of a businessman president. But Trump's business plan is a disaster in the making.
Michael Bloomberg
#96. I'm proud of the fact that besides being known as a successful former football player, I've also worked hard to establish myself as a successful businessman, network broadcaster, sports & entertainment executive and philanthropist.
Warren Moon
#97. I will certainly not join politics. I would like to be remembered as a clean businessman who has not partaken in any twists and turns beneath the surface, and one who has been reasonably successful.
Ratan Tata
#98. The intellectual finds it reassuring to say that the businessman gets his money by luck; or monopoly, or exploitation, or dishonesty, or what have you. As a matter of fact, the truly dishonest man will last longer in college -teaching or the ministry than he will in the business world.
Benjamin A. Rogge
#99. Rosemary, in his heart your brother is a lover. The shrewd businessman, the adventurer, the dandy are but costumes the lover wears.
Donald McCaig
#100. I've never gotten a release from any person. I'm not a businessman; I'm on the side of common sense. Releases ruin the atmosphere of photography.
Peter Beard
